[Cincinatus' Wife]

The bottom line is, it hardly matters what your IQ is. What you do with what you have, black, white, red, brown, etc., is what raises your chance for success.
Going unchallenged by the failed public education system, being passed off as something of value, is fraud and a monsterous crime being perpetrated on Americans.

[norton]

There are idiots attending Harvard (and running the place)and there are brilliant minds developing down in South Central despite the idiots running that place as well).

Kids have got to want to learn, libraries have got to be available to provide them with material other than the sanitized and biased texts they will find in public schools, and parents have got to keep watch and insure that actual learning takes place.

Schooling, public, private, or home, must be a challenge and not socialization (levelling).

Any kid CAN learn, most today don't believe they NEED to learn and all the free computers and feel-good exercises in the current mix only take the challenge farther away from the kids who would accept it.

[GaConfed]

The bottom line is, it hardly matters what your IQ is. What you do with what you have, black, white, red, brown, etc., is what raises your chance for success

The lower your IQ is the harder it is to attain the level of knowledge to take advantage of what you have. The person with the lower IQ must be more dilligent in his quest for excellence, no matter what his goals are. That is the way it has always been, and always will be. The problem here, I think, is that our society places more value on a bad physician with an 85 IQ than a good ditch digger with an 85 IQ. In my opinion, excellence itself is closer to God than mere social position and material possessions. An increase in material possessions and honors without a corresponding increase in excellence of the soul is the product of evil and the producer of more evil. This is the state of society today in the US.

[Phillip Augustus]

IQ is not necessarily determinative of one's future success, that is true. But while you may find the occasional individual with a genius IQ who is in prison or on welfare, you will rarely, if ever, find an individual with a double-digit IQ who is a lawyer, a doctor, an engineer, a scientist. That is the hard, cold reality.