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Entry: Neocons and the Left: Know Your Enemies Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/neocons_and_the_left_know_your_enemies#2641 Post contents: To point out that IQ data support the view that social and economic inequality is natural and normal - that the state can and should do nothing to interfere with it, that wealth redistribution and social levelling will produce only evil consequences in the long run, because they run against nature's current - is hardly the same as suggesting "government sorting of individuals by categories of usefulness to the state." Public education today has as one of its principal goals the promotion of an egalitarian agenda. Recognizing that children have different capacities for learning, and learn at different paces, is a step away from this, and ought to be encouraged. It is something that was recognized in every one-room schoolhouse a century ago. A mass-production approach to education, with its rigidly age-based grade structure, fails to allow what the one-room schoolhouse did. This is true whether the school in question is privately or governmentally operated. Government-operated schools are a fact of life and will continue to exist whether we like them or not. If they can be encouraged by the use of IQ data to educate each child to the extent of his capacity, rather than on a one-size-fits-all basis, why should not conservatives support that? Sent at: 2008 05 15