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To: koan who wrote (238390)	11/21/2013 3:23:11 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542043

"So I know the average person can become a very wise and knowledgeable person if they work for it." Great. It still doesn't mean a plumber needs to waste his time in college to please you or anyone else. He (or she) should only do it if they really want to go to college, just for the fun of it. And we shouldn't think less of people who can't do it. Because you can talk until you are blue in the face about "hardware" and "software" in the brain, but some people are just not going to be able to go to college, unless we dumb down college so much it's like middle school- and I'm hoping that's not what you're envisioning. No one here wants to hold back kids who want to work hard, but there are plenty of kids who don't want to work hard in school, or who don't have either hardware or software- and they need to have jobs too, and if they are really good at those jobs, who are we to tell them they should go, or have gone, to college. That's all anyone here is saying. And as far as the UC requirements for calculus, you are probably flogging a dead horse there. They get far more applicants than they can possibly take, they need more ways to sort the aps, not less.