“Also any proof of brains being arranged whatever you think they are does just point to your lack of scientific references.”
Buddy, you need to go to medical school, or take a United States medical licensing exam preparatory classes – this is taught as part of standard medical courses and you need to know it in order to pass the medical licensing exam.
50% of intelligence is genetically inherited, the other 50% is brain development. Environmental influences (or lack thereof) are crucial at the brain development stage, but if one is borderline retarded or just at the cusp of normal intelligence quotient, becoming a scientist or an engineer will prove mighty difficult, if nigh impossible.
The schools here are literally struggling to teach students, from elementary to university, and the kids just DON’T GET IT. They do not have the mental capacity. I did not believe it until I saw it for myself. In addition, the parents don’t apply themselves, and don’t push their kids, making the problem even worse. Welcome to the country of pickup trucks, sport utility vehicles, minivans, gasoline guzzling and eating and talking on the mobile phone while driving because people here are DUMB.
Stereotypes exist because they are true.
Look at North East Crackers (“NEC”): one of the most successful groups on the C=64, but it was not so, until a Hungarian immigrant came to the United States and made it so.
“If the good schools are too expensive because their full revenues come from students and their parents, there will be no empowerment. Children of poor people will probably remain poor.”
We have some of the best public schools in the world here, and unlike Europe, where teachers didn’t give a shit and made one “piss blood” (as we so lovingly referred to the ordeal), teachers here are doing their best and hardest to teach kids, way more than they do in Europe (and I am in a very good position to make that comparison, having gone to, AND CONQUERED the tortures of the European education system). The teachers here are really, really trying hard to teach our kids, but the kids just struggle. Smart kids do great here, better than great, our public schools in the United States give them the opportunities I certainly didn’t have while attending schooling in Europe, because in Europe, my teachers didn’t give a rat’s ass whether I did well or not. In fact, they made it a sport to try and trip us up and flunk us at every turn and opportunity. In the European education system, it was survival of the most intelligent. If I had not had the brains, I would have crashed and burned, and crashed and burned hard.
So to counteract your claim: there are phenomenal education opportunities here, and our public schools are paid for by the taxpayers, just like they are in Europe, only more directly, we pay taxes to the school, rather than to the state treasury. If you are a really good student here, you will get high scores on the standard aptitude tests (“SAT”), and you can apply for, and are very likely to get scholarships. I know this, because I did exactly that. As an honor roll student, I had scholarships pay for good part of my tuition. Just for having good grades!
Again, the problem is not our education system which is excellent, the problem is dumb kids and even dumber parents. Kids would be at least partially salvageable if the parents weren’t such dumbasses. And that, my friend, is directly tied to their lack of education, which is in turn directly tied to their low intelligence quotient:
one does not know what do to because one does not know enough about anything, and one does not know enough because one is not capable of learning it.