As the World Turns.

Reno's Davidson Academy, written about here in previous posts, is getting a lot of publicity for its mission to ensure that would-be schoolage Einsteins actually live up to their potential.

The Davidsons are sincere, but this idea is totally boneheaded. In the end, "high I.Q." has little to do with success in life, for so much that is required for "success" has to do with things more critical than being "smart." Having the right social skills, having the ability to kiss ass, being born or being married into the right family, having the ethics of a cobra to step over other people to the point of even breaking the law, all of these are far more important to "success" than whether somebody is "gifted."

Just ask our dictator.

What fawning over and creating schools for "geniuses" do is create an entitlement mentality. We already have enough of that shit from the mediocre rich.

Besides, there aren't enough jobs out there for the "gifted." Their lives will be just as mediocre as anybody else's.