"Governments followed a famous 1938 United Kingdom education commission in decreeing that, “The facts of genetic inequality are something that we cannot escape,

"Governments followed a famous 1938 United Kingdom education commission in decreeing that, “The facts of genetic inequality are something that we cannot escape,” and that, “different children ... require types of education varying in certain important respects.” It's unfortunate that some people will leap into new and unsettled scientific 'discoveries' as if they were gospel. It's as though cultural responses to the old 'supreme authority' were simply transferred onto a new one. Sadly, in this case, the historical outcome is a prime example of that danger. The tentative - and upgradable - nature of science must be communicated in the teaching of it, including the news and the reference works. Now and then it's only human to admit 'I don't know'. (As Jacob Bronowski took pains to demonstrate in 'The Ascent of Man'.)