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Perhaps it’s politically incorrect to say, but students learn best when they’re around students that are of similar intelligence and motivation to succeed. Tak
by nostromo 3y ago
Perhaps it’s politically incorrect to say, but students learn best when they’re around students that are of similar intelligence and motivation to succeed.
Taking a brilliant kid and putting them around underachievers doesn’t do anyone any good.
- OO000oo 3y agoStudents learn best when they have a quiet home to study in, 3 quality meals a day, parents who aren't working 3 jobs they can ask questions to, parents who aren't fighting about paying the bills that month, good school supplies, etc.
- nostromo 3y agoAgreed. So let's go solve those problems directly and stop pretending the solution is to put underachieving kids into top schools to make ourselves feel better.
- OO000oo 3y agoI will only feel better when the working class controls the society it built.
- ativzzz 3y agoOnce they do that, they become the ruling class and the elites. Then their children are no longer working class, and are now the enemies.
- OO000oo 3y agoIn such a case, I won't feel better yet will I? So we'll try again...
- pastacacioepepe 3y agoYou're missing the point: If the working class becomes the ruling one finally the majority rules, not a rich elite.
- nancyhn 3y agoConversely, putting someone who isn't well suited to that environment is setting them up for failure.
- indymike 3y ago> Taking a brilliant kid and putting them around underachievers doesn’t do anyone any good. In a meritocracy, those that do not achieve do not advance, so this is not a problem after a time. I was in the US Navy's Nuclear Propulsion program. It was the closest thing to a pure meritocracy. You didn't pass a test, do the work, or behave in line with expectations you were sent to the fleet. After a few months, only the capable and motivated were left. It was completely colorblind, completely free of social agenda. You could either do the job well enough or not. I watched a lot of wash outs where there someone would find a way to tip the scales in college to keep them passing along. I watched the following wash out: the son of a Navy Captain, a congressman's kid, a couple of sons of really rich parents.