Charles Murray had an editorial in yesterday's WSJ titled "Aztecs v Greeks": http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.25474/pub_detail.asp
He makes some delightful observations as: ---------snip Because giftedness is not to be talked about, no one tells high-IQ children explicitly, forcefully and repeatedly that their intellectual talent is a gift. That they are not superior human beings, but lucky ones. That the gift brings with it obligations to be worthy of it. -------- Does he know that this theory is about 200 years old now. The earlier version of it was called "The White Man's Burden". --------snip The gifted should not be taught to be nonjudgmental; they need to learn how to make accurate judgments. They should not be taught to be equally respectful of Aztecs and Greeks; they should focus on the best that has come before them, which will mean a light dose of Aztecs and a heavy one of Greeks. -------- This guy is seriously reaching now.. Where does he get his knowledge of Aztec culture (or Greek culture for that matter) to make such judgements on? -raghu.
