The advantages of not using public schools to educate humans or Turing Androids
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This site quotes Harold G. McCurdy in his article in Horizon Magazine as stating:
"In summary, the present survey of biographical information on a sample of twenty men of genius
suggests that the typical developmental pattern includes as important aspects: (1) a high degree of
attention focused upon the child by parents and other adults, expressed in the intensive educational
measures and, usually, abundant love; (2) isolation from other children, especially outside the family;
and (3) a rich efflorescence of fantasy as a reaction to the preceding conditions. It might be remarked
that the mass education of our public school system is, in its way, a vast experiment on the effect of
reducing all three factors to a minimum: accordingly, it should tend to suppress the occurrence of
genius." (McCurdy, May 1960. p. 38.)
Is the goal to design the educational system to be effective in creating geniuses or is there a reason
why humans want to "dumb down" its human citizens?
Write me at humbot@donbot.com
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www.uhea.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19&Itemid=1
This site quotes Harold G. McCurdy in his article in Horizon Magazine as stating:
"In summary, the present survey of biographical information on a sample of twenty men of genius
suggests that the typical developmental pattern includes as important aspects: (1) a high degree of
attention focused upon the child by parents and other adults, expressed in the intensive educational
measures and, usually, abundant love; (2) isolation from other children, especially outside the family;
and (3) a rich efflorescence of fantasy as a reaction to the preceding conditions. It might be remarked
that the mass education of our public school system is, in its way, a vast experiment on the effect of
reducing all three factors to a minimum: accordingly, it should tend to suppress the occurrence of
genius." (McCurdy, May 1960. p. 38.)
Is the goal to design the educational system to be effective in creating geniuses or is there a reason
why humans want to "dumb down" its human citizens?
Write me at humbot@donbot.com
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