On Education.

[aleksandrovitch]

It is my personal feeling that logic should be taught in schools. Not logic in the mathematical or Cartesian sense, but with respect to dialectic human interaction. Most petty problems between people, as I view them, arise from one or the other not adhering to the accepted rules of logic. This is, of course, insofar as said interactions are

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[anonymous]

I have little more to offer than a hearty "I concur

[aleksandrovitch]

I fear some days that I become a proponent of Aristocracy. Not, of course, the Aristocracy that exists in today's paradigm, but rather that merit-based system proposed by Aristotle. While Egalitarianism is all nice and shiny, I wonder at times. Recently, I have placed myself privy to some interesting statistics involving IQ and its relation to class structure (The Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray, highly recommended). While the obvious direct proportions between the twelve 'high IQ' professions, that is, advocacy, chemistry, advanced mathematics, etc. is well understood, it seems that stratification is somewhat validated by IQ. However, political positions are not subject to this apparently non-categorical imperative. While a people's advocate would surely deem this a victory, declaring that the people are represented, as they should be, by their counterparts, I must confess that my gradually declining (yes, still) faith in mankind and its ilk leads me to depart from this advocate and play, as it would seem in