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To: cosmicforce who wrote (213098)	12/30/2012 2:28:15 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 541791

I have thought about that. Yes, I am very aware of the long term intellectual disability that comes from stimulus deprivation at an early age. I have read studies done with animals. But remember we are talking about stimulus. Look at these kids today texting 24 7, or gaming. That is a lot of stimulus-lol. Remember as well, I grew up in a city. I played sports every night until it got dark and we ran around in "gangs". So we were all getting lots of stimulus. Constantly communicating, so the stimulus may be transferable to education once one applies themselves. Once in a while I do see a mind that really stands out. But usually, as one would expect, most intellectuals I meet seem pretty average, as one would expect. Notice it is the rural areas that are more conserative and where they probably interact less. Less stimulus? <<Again, your experience sounds exceptional - and it would be a major invasion of your privacy for me to confirm it. However, most people coming out of the urban core social experience are not equipped linguistically, intellectually or socially to succeed, with or without junior college as a bridge. And we know that early deprivation makes for a lifelong intellectual liability. It is the intellectual equivalent of the Chinese' binding of feet. That is the root cause of failure - poor family structure, limited vocabulary / reading skills and a lack of respect for the book-learning process.

To: cosmicforce who wrote (213098)	12/30/2012 3:54:38 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541791

I figured out how to explain it. If you can make it through high school, you can make it through college. What in college is more difficult than high school. Nothing I know of. Even math is about the same (statistics). History, English, social science, biology? All the same. And I think most would agree 85% of the population can get through high school. Just had a long talk with my daughter the scientist about this and she agreed with me 100% about how much of college is just hard work, but also how much one changes after just a short time being in that intense intellectual environment night and day. Her partner dropped out of college and she just got him back in and she talks about how much he has already changed in just 12 weeks of school. My other daughter who went to Berkeley and Loyola law school (and did her homework watching soap operas-lol) won't get down and dirty in the philosophical weeds with me (she says,: "dad, can't you just talk about the weather once in a while?), but this one does-lol.