Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

Sam (Serious question). Can you explain why you believe so? I’m pretty confident that I understand the information we’ve produced over the past forty years, and I would say trying educate different groups at the same rate by the same methods given their very different maturity curves hurts all parties. In fact, the worst policy failure in our mid 20th experiment with social engineering (copying the soviets) has destroyed not only the black family, black culture, and captured the black elites who have abandoned their people, leaving rudderless impoverished communities behind.

Every attempt we have tried, every single one, trying to treat people as identical (not equally) has led to harm across the entirety of the spectrum. While the education system hasn’t caught up we solved developmental differences before 1990, we ended the blank slate by 2000, we ended the debate over sex differences in 2012, and we ended the debate over the very large race differences in 2018. We are doing the exact opposite of what the evidence universally demonstrates: is that we need a large number of very different schools that educate the whole person – physically, with mindfulness (think what religion accomplishes), dress, hygiene, protocols manners ethics and morals, then of course the three R’s, the physical sciences overview , as well as the necessary life skills which we totally ignore, including the foundations of personal finance, the banking system, basic economics, basic contract law, basic project management, basic understanding of courts and legislatures. And we need, without tracks to provide access to labor, craftsmanship, clerical, and administrative training combined with apprenticeship, two year junion college for the medical industry, and three year for the STEM+L disciplines. And even then to separate research institutions and their funding from teaching institutions so that we put students first.

On top of that it appears that children are increasingly intolerant of the teaching methods invented last century and before, and are better served by ‘gamification’, and gamification combined with simulations and role playing real world occupations. This is learning by doing. And with a massive supply of federally funded games and competition between localities and states maximizing innovation we would see schools be something desirable rather than endurable.

Besides, as far as we know, schools are increasingly producing dysfunctional behavior as fast as single motherhood.

So while I hear that you want to change things I think you might want to consider that integration isn’t the problem, but individual and group customization of education and individual attention to maximize the individual at group’s education with maximum opportunity, but … just under the limit of uncomfortable stress.

We aren’t bees or ants. And whether we like it or not, the four primary races are substantially different in the primary direction of human evolution: neotenic evolution producing domestication syndrome, increasing life span, and delaying and reducing the depth of maturity, producing greater malleability and adaptability, greater agency and sociability, in exchange for the suppression of impulse and aggression.

This is evident in every single measurement worldwide, without exception. So, is it better to treat biologically people the same and cause them stresses, or to treat them according to their needs, and once educated, integrate in the market where none of us cares about anything other than how cooperative we are with one another, and how competent and responsible we are?

Thanks
Curt

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