IN EDUCATION The percentage of people smart enough to work in science, technolog

http://m.nber.org/papers/w19165.pdfFALLACY IN EDUCATION

The percentage of people smart enough to work in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics is small and a function of genetic distributions.

The fields can each compete with each other for that pool of students. But the size of that pool cannot be increased without demographic changes.

Further, many smart people can be attracted by lucrative positions in law, finance, and commerce where individual achievement captures higher rewards, and where the individual has more control over the career cycle needed to capture those rewards.

You cannot prepare someone for a career in the STEM classes unless he or she has the ability for doing the work.

Our school systems are far more concerned about instilling undue confidence in children, and setting the stage for future disappointment, civil unrest, and economic uncompetitiveness than they are preparing children to be successful in the work force.

American children have the highest confidence in the world but that confidence is demonstrably unwarranted.

That this problem is the result of forced racial integration and the challenge this put in our educational system snd its culture is no so commonly understood.

But any lie must be compounded with more lies to hide the original, and this is the result.

The Finnish a german midels must be adopted at some near future point. Otherwise we shoukd just go back to teaching mysticism – which is about as sensible as what we currently do.