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To: Gary Mohilner who wrote (50191)	2/8/2009 12:42:54 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 149317

I misuderstood your post Gary. I couldn't agree more. A story I like to tell, is the most successful and famous person in my group of friends, got his PHD at 22 in social anthropology, I think, and could not get through a basic statistics class. Yet, he understood more than almost anyone I ever met. Very funny and dynamic personality. His book, The Island Within" is compared is Thoreau's "Waldon Pond" and was required reading by my daugter when she was at Berkeley. He was a C student in high school, probably had an average IQ, yet he was the funniest of us, most insightful, got his PHD young for the book "Hunters of the Northeren Ice", and can now teach at any university in the world and is quite famous for his books and work on environmental issues. If he had had to pass SAT tests or need grades to get into college our society would never have gotten his genius. Some state universities have to admit any resident regardless of high school work and with out test. MOST of those kids who enter those colleges go on to successfully get degrees. California's junior college system has produced millions of HIGHLY educated men and women and they have no entrance requirements at all. Every person has their own genius and it is just a matter of finding it and developing it along with attaining a good general education. I do not believe in entrance exams at all. I believe in educating everyone as best as we can. >> I can agree that our education system does need to give us a picture of where we are, and how we've gotten there. My point wasn't to eliminate the classes that give us an educated electorate. I do believe that not everyone must learn Algebra, however, in California, if students cannot pass a basic Algebra test, they cannot graduate High School. For some kids, who just don't understand some of the abstract concepts of Algebra, or even worse, who cannot perform basic mate, this means taking Algebra classes every year from the eight grade on.<<