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Date Posted: 18:49:09 07/17/03 Thu
Author: mvd
Subject: My thoughts
In reply to: mt. Healthy Mountaineer 's message, "Affirmative Action" on 15:52:52 07/17/03 Thu

While I would like to provide opportunities for all, I think it is a bad precedent to put lesser qualified people in positions ahead of those more qualified. As an outgrowth of democracy, we tend to see a lot of "equality" speak. Not everyone is equal. We might expect only to be treated fairly and equally under the eyes of the state and the law, but if we begin to supercede actual ability with "opportunity without merit" then we further dumb down our society as a whole. This thinking is akin to the nanny state that so many seem to advocate. We must protect the idiots from themselves and promote mediocrity at the expense of genius. Though this is not wholly the issue, it does, I feel, relate.

A good society should attempt to provide for all, but never at the expense of those who can do the most good for the most people. I think that it would be interesting to promote a program wherein teachers themselves show wisdom enough to guide students into the areas at which they are most accomplished. Teachers would then be objective "guides" and say to the next level of education, "Johnny shows interest here, this should be pursued and he should be given chances here." This sort of power would have to be checked, of course, but it is a thought.

The way schools are now, kids are handed a lunch plate full of peas, carrots, spam and apple sauce. Half the class eats the apple sauce. One kid eats the spam. Two kids eat everyone else's peas, and several kids go hungry! If teachers could recognize this, and the system allow for it, we could promote kids into the areas where they would most benefit the society in which they live. Pea eaters would go to the pea-eating schools and so on...

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