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You can attract smart people to teaching if you can promise them that the people they get to teach will be sufficiently smart. It's probably impossible to make
by dfranke 19y ago
You can attract smart people to teaching if you can promise them that the people they get to teach will be sufficiently smart. It's probably impossible to make that guarantee for 3rd graders, but it's possible for 8th.
- andreyf 19y agoThere is significant evidence to show that for the vast majority of the time, there are no "smart" or "dumb" kids if you consider children young. It isn't impossible to create a school where the vast majority are geniuses...
- SwellJoe 19y agoThere is also significant evidence to show the opposite. Nature vs. nurture isn't going to be decided by posts on news.YC. Yes, better education produces "smarter" kids, sometimes dramatically so, by some definitions of "smart", but "where the vast majority are geniuses" is stretching it beyond credulity.
- andreyf 19y ago> Nature vs. nurture isn't going to be decided by posts on news.YC. Touche :)