Which is why a higher net IQ would be beneficial.

@Deleted User Increased education is another alternative

Saftey nets = a lower IQ

Not safety nets

More education

That can have an effect, but education can only go so far. The base is IQ which has a genetic component.

Reformed Education

you can have safety nets while still letting the cream rise to the top

You will never learn to be smarter or pass on skills or positive attributes if you always are getting saved by the government

IQ is only half genetic @Deleted User

It's 50/50 nature nuture

We should maximize potential in the nuture department

So? Even if that’s the ratio, your admitting it’s 50% fixed.

Is this the old black kids adopted by white parents

Iq study

50% is a job half done

We should definitely get the most out of our citizens. I agree on that.

I'd model Education on the Finnish system

yeah

I agree with that one

We need something better

The American school system makes kids stupid and blindly obiedant

Not creative or smart

Who do you think designed it?

Factory owners

I know

They lobbied congress

J.D. Rockerfeller

that is because the education is a secondary function, the first being indoctrination

as it is with most schools

Education should be primary

It has been proven that when kids have no rules in a playground for example, that less accidents and injuries occur.

Kids can actually also do a good job of regulating themselves

and finding what they are good at

if they are let

instead of wasting their time with pointless subjects

"Tell someone to do something without telling them how and you'll be surprised by the results"

You will fail fail fail and then succeed

you can give direction

Paraphrasing George Patton

but let them be creative in a open enviorment