Alchemists Can’t Turn Lead Into Gold, Educrats Can’t Eliminate IQ. (But Lead Is Useful Anyway) By Steve Sailer
Why doesn't America ever get better at educating children?
During my lifetime, Americans have made progress in many fields—for example, retailing, where Wal-Mart and Costco operate profitably selling at inflation-adjusted prices that would be unimaginably low to past generations.
Yet, our schools keep bumping along, with one fad replacing another, but little if any improvement in results.
In the early 1990s, I frequently visited Bentonville, Arkansas, making sales calls on Wal-Mart. What distinguished Wal-Mart from every other major corporation I'd met with was the ruthlessness of its rationality. Its employees would tear apart the slightest weakness in my sales pitch.
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