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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (58201)11/23/2009 12:25:29 PM
From: Maurice Winn1 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) of 217734
 
Haim, education is vastly over rated in its contribution to intelligence. Far more important is food quality and vitamin D. The pregnant woman's diet and the child's food quality while their brain grows for 22 years are far more important than so-called education.

All education does is provide something for the intelligent to think about. It doesn't make the brain grow. Any half-witted child can easily get information to think about themselves without being handicapped by authoritarians into lowest common denominator "education" rote learning of irrelevancies.

Notice how self-educated "drop outs" like $ill Gates are the highest performers. Being "out" relieves them of the irrelevant and enables focus on the vital.

On Darwinism, it's quite possible for selection to work the opposite way from your suggestion - Pol Pot and Mao were keen to eliminate aristocracy and intelligence. In general, the stupid and violent are quick to attack the intelligent who threaten their violent megalomania. Intelligence isn't improved by mass murder. It's improved by careful selection, mostly by females who naturally incline away from those males unlikely to help them and their children.

Watch Chavez. Venezuela will go down the gurgler. Chavez is already saying Idi Amin was perhaps a good bloke.

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