OT One of your preferred theme: Is the Jew more intelligent?
Charles Murray said that the genetics would be one of the explanations for the supposed superior intelligence of the Jews. Is it?
Gilberto Dimenstein writes:
As Jew, I do not believe in this genetic influence. It is not only because, I believe, genetic superiority and barbarity are undistinguishable in history. But, as somebody that works with education, I believe that a specific culture exists that helps projecting a people who, although to have only 12 million people, has 25% of the winners of the Prize Nobel.
What it exists among Jews (and not only among them) it is an obsessive reverence for the knowledge, that comes of generations. It is called the people of the book. The rabbi, the person most important of the religious community, does not have force for being an intermediary with God, but for being an interpreter of the laws, that is, an intellectual. Sacred books are made of questions.
The initiation ritual of the Jew is not to kill a warrior or to pass for privations. But it is to read a book (the Torah). That is, if to want to turn adult will have to know to read in at least a language. The illiteracy always was very low between the Jews, what it assured a net of schools.
The education is not seen as a responsibility only of the school. But, in first place, of the family and, later, the community. It is educated in house, the synagogue and also in the school. It is learned, therefore, all the time and in all the places.
As the mankind, it was developed sensation of the permanent challenge. This if translates the idea of that the study it is the best defense --it is also something as an insurance that can be carried with the individual.
In this sum of the capitals human and social, it is a recipe not of the intellectual performance of a people, but of the divine force of the education, that can be replicated by any human grouping. |
