A hot topic is to what extent intelligence can be inherited.
I find the number of projects to put books in to homes which don't have many books interesting. They seem to be done on the basis that intelligent people have lots of books so the books must have made them intelligent.
As a generalisation, I think it's more likely that intelligent people are more interested in reading, learning and expanding their minds than less intelligent people and thus intelligent people buy more books. Having lots of books in an indicator of higher intelligence and not a cause of it.
A recent report in the Telegraph Newspaper covers a claim that well off children are brighter than less well off children. If being intelligent enables one to succeed in life (I think it helps) then more intelligent people will be more well off than less intelligent people. If there is some element of inheritability of intelligence then one would expect children of well off parents to be more intelligent than then children of less well off children. Again, this is a generalisation and there will be plenty of exceptions.
It's sad to read in the Times Newspaper that social mobility has reduced since Labour came into office. I would have expected Labour to be interested in helping intelligent children in less well off families to get a good education and get on in life. Send them to a state grammar school perhaps.
However, I fear that finding intelligent children and giving them a good education smacks of elitism.
I find the number of projects to put books in to homes which don't have many books interesting. They seem to be done on the basis that intelligent people have lots of books so the books must have made them intelligent.
As a generalisation, I think it's more likely that intelligent people are more interested in reading, learning and expanding their minds than less intelligent people and thus intelligent people buy more books. Having lots of books in an indicator of higher intelligence and not a cause of it.
A recent report in the Telegraph Newspaper covers a claim that well off children are brighter than less well off children. If being intelligent enables one to succeed in life (I think it helps) then more intelligent people will be more well off than less intelligent people. If there is some element of inheritability of intelligence then one would expect children of well off parents to be more intelligent than then children of less well off children. Again, this is a generalisation and there will be plenty of exceptions.
It's sad to read in the Times Newspaper that social mobility has reduced since Labour came into office. I would have expected Labour to be interested in helping intelligent children in less well off families to get a good education and get on in life. Send them to a state grammar school perhaps.
However, I fear that finding intelligent children and giving them a good education smacks of elitism.
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