Here I totally agree with you. The schools in the US are far worse now than
when the majority of the people on this list went to them.
>The truth is that there are no stupid masses who hate and fear anyone
>smarter. Smart children are often outsiders, and they get picked on
>because they're outsiders, not because they're smart. The stereotype of
>the beer-swilling, self-righteous fool who resents all those goddamn
>scientists who know something he doesn't is simply false. I'd be
>surprised if one percent of the population matched it. Technophobia and
>science-bashing are motivated by *fear*, not resentment - altruistic
>fear for the planet, fear of being replaced, fear of disruption, fear of
>the new, fear of what you cannot understand. And though all these fears
>may be misguided - which they sometimes aren't - they are all normal
>emotional responses, saying nothing about intelligence.
True, fear drives the intellectual ostracizing.
"Some people dream about worthy accomplishments while others stay
awake and do them."
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