I read an interesting book a long time ago. The crux of it was, "We spend a huge amount of money on the students with the bottom 2% of IQ, why don't we spend j

I read an interesting book a long time ago. The crux of it was, "We spend a huge amount of money on the students with the bottom 2% of IQ, why don't we spend just as much on the top 2%". The standard argument was that the top 2% will find their own way and be just fine. I suppose that is true, but I don't think there were any studies to back that up.