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To: TigerPaw who wrote (497634)	8/27/2022 12:31:42 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 542105

>>not restrained by those struggling to keep up. There are both theoretical and experimental physicists. They are not interchangeable and both are skilled in different ways. The problem with the phrase I reference above is that becomes institutionalized and then bureaucrats or test results become proxies for ability when we both know that academics is only one fraction of the whole pie of "highly skilled". Many experimentalists are not great at the theory. If you have ever seen glassblowers work - they are geniuses and ingenious. The fact that Roentgen did not have access to one slowed his work. Tesla sent him an X-ray tube that he had built ten years earlier but wasn't using. Roentgen did not take credit for or claim the patent which he gave away for free.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (497634)	8/27/2022 12:41:34 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 542105

With all due respect, I have heard that argument all my life and think it is bogus. Where do you think this happens? That is just not a problem in most schools today and certainly not college which is what we are talking about. These days usually kids in primary and secondary schools who are ahead are placed in higher classes, or given special programs, and kids who need help are also given extra help e.g. dyslexia.--as it should be. In college it is never a problem. Professors teach and the kids get grades based on how well they learned it. And if they can't keep up, they are failed. <public education K through 12 should be free and mandatory, so why stop there? It's not that everyone doesn't need and deserve as much education as can be given to them, it's just that at some level those who can need an education at the highest level, not restrained by those struggling to keep up.