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> Perhaps not, but the purpose of the public school system is not to turn out a couple of geniuses every year. It’s to maintain a well-educated populace. It sh
by jimbokun 5y ago
> Perhaps not, but the purpose of the public school system is not to turn out a couple of geniuses every year. It’s to maintain a well-educated populace.
It should be both.
- naasking 5y agoEven if it can't be both, a few geniuses could very well outweigh the benefits of a slightly more well-educated populace. Einstein arguably gave us GPS and space flight. I'm not sure any amount of average-person level mathematics could make some advances like that.