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by pizlonator 2531 days ago
Agreed.

Some people have the potential and some people don’t. Those who do have it, have it in wildly varying degrees.

I think the problem with American education at least is it caters to the dumbest kid in the class and doesn’t have any widespread notion of HS-level vocational education. So the smartest kid in the class winds up dumber than the smartest kids in other countries’ classes.