[valkyrieanne]

In an earlier age he could have become another Edison. Now he's just labelled as dysfunctional.

Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal has a whining article in the Capitol Watch section today about how the Asians are whipping our behinds in math and science, and how we are going to soon be outsourcing "innovation." Look at how we treat our own local kids who could be innovators. Read Rocket Boys (upon which the movie October Sky was based) - those kids would have been locked up in juvenile hall today for what they did then. We claim we want "innovation" but we punish it when it actually rears its head.

[B4Ranch]

"CONTROLLED innovation" is fine.

[MisterFIXIT1983]

Hmm about the Asains whipping our behinds in math... Funny that I only recently was in highschool and myself met many a forign exchange student... no more intellegent than we Americans... In fact I remember helping one with a few math problems myself... And I am the MOST horrible math student ever... The fact is our kids who excell in American math could whip the pants off the asains... We have the WORST teaching design when it comes to math... The asains and many others teach at least 3 ways of solving a problem. I remember solving a math problem sucessfully a diffrent way and receiving an F because it wasnt the 'taught' way... No wonder we apear to be crappy mathamaticians(sp)... On tha othar hand we is exselent spellars! =)

[Law is not justice but process]

Ain't that the truth? We should award such creativity. Maybe we could give him Hans Blix's old job?

[cinFLA]

In an earlier age he could have become another Edison. Now he's just labelled as dysfunctional.

The dysfunctional ones are the ones that are believing all this book hype! There is NO evidence that such a reactor ever existed. He was caught on a police report of kids stealing tires off of cars.