DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

John Derbyshire, Patron Saint of Dyspepsia, speaks some inconvenient truth.

The fundamental problem here is that we don’t know what to do with adolescents. Well, we know what to do with the ones who are bookish and willing to be educated: Sit them in rows of desks and have trained teachers instruct them. We simply have no idea what to do with the others. All we have come up with is to subject them to the same environment as the bookish kids. This (see above) leads to massive waste and destroys some subset of studious, educable youngsters’ chances.

This sort of thinking is why we need to SUPPORT JOHN DERBYSHIRE (see right).

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