It’s part of the liberal mindset to think that all children will be successes if only they were given the right tools because, after all, everyone Is “equal.”
They don’t want to admit that some don’t amount to anything, or are out-and-out losers, because they lack either intelligence or motivation, or both. BOTH are innate, inherited traits.
Not "given the right tools". Rather "Put in the right environment". That environment must include teachers in the likeness of Katherine Birbalsingh who runs Michaela School in the UK, whom I have mentioned here before. Tough love.
For centuries, the
goyim thought of the Jews as sneaky, cowardly, sly -- clever perhaps, but not brave warriors. A "Jewish General" would have been a joke. Well, they weren't in the right environment for the 'brave warrior' personality traits to come out, or to be motivated to become great generals.
Then comes 1948 ... and now, everyone knows the IDF is the best army in the world, and not just because of its technical excellence. [I remember, when we were losing the war in Vietnam (and after the Six-Day War) a cartoon of half-a-dozen American generals around a planning table, all of them wearing Moshe Dayan-style eyepatches, one of them saying "Now here's my plan...."]
Go to Guatemala, out to the countryside. The poor devils there ... living in little shacks. Backward, inert. But ... these are the children of the Mayas! Who were doing serious astronomy 2000 years ago! What happened? Peru ... the Incas. Egypt!
Hell, Greece! Italy! But national groups don't only have to go down. They can go up, or come back up.
When I was a little kid, "Chinamen" were objects of ignorant mirth. Their sing-song language was mocked, the men wore dresses, and had pig-tails, ha ha ha. The Chinese Revolution had just happened and hadn't made an impression on us yet. Then came the Korean War ... and a few decades of internal development in China, rough, admittedly, but real... -- with a long diversion in the 'Great Leap Forward' and the 'Cultural Revolution', and now no one laughs at them anymore. They win all the Mathematical Olympiads ... of course, occasionally the American team wins ... but it's made up almost entirely of Chinese-Americans.
Black parents who aren't Muslims try desperately to get their kids into Nation of Islam schools (the 'Black Muslims'). Here's why:
The NOI is highly critical of the U.S. school system, believing that, by being Eurocentric in its focus and concealing the achievement of non-white societies, it perpetuates white supremacy. To this end, the Nation has established its own educational system. Across the U.S. it has established Muhammad Universities of Islam; most of these are elementary schools, although a few also offer secondary education. These emphasize science, mathematics, black history, Arabic, and NOI doctrine;
Farrakhan has said that they need to provide black children with "an education to make them Gods." In these schools, boys and girls are taught separately; pupils are only given two weeks of vacation each year Combating the idea that academic achievement entails "acting white," the Nation has sought to associate hard work in school with pride in being black.
How I would love to see a mass influx of American poor Black people into the Nation of Islam!
I am NOT saying, by the way, that genes play no role. They probably do, but exactly what, how they interact with the environment ... we don't know yet. Look at the 'Flynn Effect' -- the rise, by about 3 points a decade, in the average IQ ... (maybe now in reverse)... whatever caused that, it wasn't some change in the genes.
Note: it's not just a change in teaching methods that's needed. It's not a question, really, of more money.
Little JoeLiarCowardHypocrite dodged my questions to him earlier about how, since Japan gets better academic results than the US, and Florida gets better academic results than the Distict of Columbia, maybe the US should match Japan's educational expenditure, and DC should match Florida's.
He was wise to do so, since that would have meant a substantial
lowering in expenditure for both of them. (DC spends about twice as much per pupil as Florida.)
It's the
environment, above all the moral/spiritual environment, which can change people's perceptions of themselves and what is possible. It happened to the European Jews who found themselves fighting for their own nation, it happened to the Chinese, who found themselves throwing off imperialist domination ... both of them led by very different leaders, with radically different ideologies, but by leaders who had in common a belief that their people could achieve miracles.
And they did.