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To: Ilaine who wrote (15862)	1/9/2002 5:31:16 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) of 281500

CB <"Don't waste money on those people, they're untrainable."> That's been USA policy for decades. The Scholastic Aptitude Test is used to filter out people on whom it would be a waste of money to try to teach certain things. The idea that intelligence can be 'educated' into people is false. It is cruel to pretend to people without the ability that if they struggle hard, forego more enjoyable experiences and training which they could cope with, they'll be able to do the high IQ things. They can't and will feel bad as though they have failed when it is the people leading them to the slaughter who have failed. What's funny is that people think it reasonable to try to get low IQ people to do high IQ things, but they think that people in Afghanistan are too primitive to pick up democracy any time soon. They are wrong on both things. They treat the dull as though they are bright and normal people as though they are dull. Afghanistan could and should be leaned on by the revamped UN and formed into a democracy [perhaps even partitioned if Pashtuns and others are frictional]. Mqurice

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