Dunno if the following will be yet more grist to your madmill.....
Re: As I stated, IQ is not a measure of education, but is instead a measure of natural intelligence - or more appropriately, a rate of learning.
Many geniuses have trouble with basic concepts, such as arithmatic, tying shoe laces, and spelling. However, they tend to form rapid and automatic grasps of advanced points, such as Relativity. It is extremely common for individuals with high IQ's to fail basic education.
You may note from my original post, I basically failed high school. I also failed grade school. "He is an intelligent student, but does not apply himself" was the common statement on my grade cards. I am not a genius, I missed that threshold by 13 points, but I am slightly above average for an American college graduate.
Now, tell me Mike, if such prestigious institutions as Zurich's Polytechnic School, or Boston's MIT, or Berkeley, etc. are hopeless at sorting out the whizz kids from the common herd, then what's that swanky elitism they're boasting about? For, according to your analysis, all these creme-de-la-creme academies are no benchmark to pick out stealth geniuses such as, say, Einstein!
So, here's my point: a total reshuffling of the schoolteaching: since EE entry exams and other soft numbers like nuclear physics, matrix calculus, organic chemistry, etc. are just good enough to select low-grade students, I solemnly propose, on this January 19th, 2000, to launch the University of the XXIst Century. Its purpose will be to provide the US corporate world with the best of the best in scientific research. Wanna know the magic?
You guessed it, Mike: the admittance criteria will rest exclusively on IQ tests (or Natural Intelligence, if you like) --so that geeks like you will also be able to luck it out for a PhD in Virtual Plasma Physics, sounds great eh? Of course, as you rightfully noted it, the University will also provide for Advanced Course in Shoeshining.... Ooops! Make that: Shoelace tying!! Since I don't want the future Chief Technology Officers of Corporate America to fall flat on their faces on the way to their first interviews..... Of course, I've been thinking of you as the University's Dean.
Gus. |
