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To the downvoters: please explain your reasoning. I think I raised some good points here.
by quantumwoke 8y ago
To the downvoters: please explain your reasoning. I think I raised some good points here.
- wwweston 8y agoHaven't downvoted, but I'd guess it probably starts with "Why are we bothering to educate anyone except the very, very best students in physics, maths and engineering?" Sure, we will undoubtedly get better society-wide results if we identify a subset of elite students (notably defined primarily in terms of STEM fields) and only "bother" educating them, leaving everyone else to Just Trust Them™ and underutilizing the long tail of talent. And then there's the premise that society somehow isn't looking to utilize the existing population of elite students, which of course it is, no shortage of organizations looking for outliers. About the only good point there is that our system for allocating the best/brightest to certain problems could use improvement.
- quantumwoke 8y agoThe rest of the comment explicitly disagrees with that thought. I have edited it to make it clearer.