Dumb and Dumber: Handicapping Our Future

THE education of America’s gifted children is a dangerous disgrace. Bright youngsters have special needs, well documented by research, which have been all but dismissed by American education. As Milton Friedman has observed:

Instead of emphasizing strengthening the opportunities open to the able, we have tended increasingly to shift into a state of victims in which the emphasis is on raising the people at the bottom. Now, no social progress has ever come from the bottom up. It’s always come from the top small number pulling up the society as a whole and raising it.

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THE education of America’s gifted children is a dangerous disgrace. Bright youngsters have special needs, well documented by research, which have been all but dismissed by American education. As Milton Friedman has observed:

Instead of emphasizing strengthening the opportunities open to the able, we have tended increasingly to shift into a state of victims in which the emphasis is on raising the people at the bottom. Now, no social progress has ever come from the bottom up. It’s always come from the top small number pulling up the society as a whole and raising it.