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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Master (Hijacked) who wrote (7563)	6/14/2000 8:14:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 9127

Standards are indeed lowered to accommodate mediocrity in almost every facet of our society. And bright kids are often ridiculed (geeks) to the point where often times they are discouraged to excel. Everywhere you look it seems that some bright kid barely out of school is producing a creative product or process that pushes a technological envelope to a new level. If this is what we get for accommodating mediocrity, maybe we should do more of it. The jock may rule in high school, and the geek may cringe. But ten years later, when the jock is selling used cars and the geek is holding his first IPO, the situation is very different. And the geeks, even the cringing ones in high school, know it. I remember reading that MIT students, while watching their football team get stomped, would sing to the opposing students (to the tune of the Mickey Mouse anthem): M-I-T P-H-D M-O-N-E-Y. A little reminder that the rewards of genius are very tangible indeed.