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From: shankar@haarlem.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Son of Knuth)
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Subject: Re: Student preparedness
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Date: 18 Jan 89 19:41:15 GMT
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In article <1088@bird.ldgo.columbia.edu> hough@ldgo.columbia.edu (sue hough) writes:

>American education has this pie-eyed premise of equality:
> Every student can be a rocket scientist if he/she is taught
> right.  Rather than ship the less promising students off
> to some sort of trade school (where they won't embarrass
> your national statistics), everybody gets the same classes
> up to at least eighth grade.  

Perhaps because every student *can be a rocket scientist if he/she is thought
right and works hard at it.  Let's see, who was it that said genius is 1%
inspiration and 99% perspiration.

I would rather not see elementary school kids tested, classified into
one of many professions, and then sent to an appropriate school.

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