Tammy Bruce: Why Some People Do Better Than Others

Why Some People Do Better Than Others

Because some people are geniuses, while most people are not. This, of course, does not guarantee success or happiness; there are all sorts of mitigating factors which affect our experience in life. Genius, however, certainly gives one an edge and, by the simple fact they've been given a gift, have better odds at a better life. Fair? Not necessarily. Natural and appropriate? Yes.

The more chances she has, the more chances everyone else has. Everyone wins when an educational system and social structure are built for the best among us; it challenges the rest of us to reach for more. When a system spends its time forcing through a false 'equality' by chopping down the tall poppies, stigmatizing talent and catering to the mediocre, everyone loses. Just ask the people of the former Soviet Union, of Cuba and of North Korea.

Only in a United States free from continuing leftist influence will a baby like this have all the opportunity in the world. Let's make sure it's still here for her when she gets older.

Posted by Tammy · February 25, 2007 02:08 AM · Permalink
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In my local public school district, most of the schools are lousy. There's one school that does significantly better. This seems to be largely due to momentum from a number of years ago when it was a charter school, and so the culture to encourage excellence continued. Any sort of testing to get into this school has been eliminated, although, due to popularity, parents had to show up and stand on line for a very long time in order to get their kids registered.

This in itself has perhaps preserved some of the dedication. But the effort required was controversial, so the last I heard it was proposed to replace the system with a lottery to finally make it "fair". This successful school is deeply unpopular within the greater educational bureaucracy. Insiders tell me that it is routinely deprived of resources in favor of other schools that need them more (apparently the greater the failure, the greater the need). I heard a school board member suggest that the students at this school should be dispersed randomly among the other schools; he made the analogy of cutting seedlings off a plant in order to nurture a number of new plants, thus uplifting the entire district.

As a matter of policy, excellence has become politically incorrect. Seems to have been replaced by the quest for self-esteem.

Posted by: Talkin Horse at February 25, 2007 04:54 PM

The short story, “Harrison Bergeron”, by Kurt Vonnegut says it all:

"THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General."
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"Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn’t think about anything except in short bursts. And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains."
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"On the television screen were ballerinas.
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He tried to think a little about the ballerinas. They weren’t really very good – no better than anybody else would have been, anyway. They were burdened with sash weights and bags of birdshot, and their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in. George was toying with the vague notion that maybe dancers shouldn’t be handicapped. But he didn’t get very far with it before another noise in his ear radio scattered his thoughts."
Read it in its entirety at
http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/hb.html

Posted by: helpunderdog at February 25, 2007 05:50 PM

We see the kid slapping at the pictures, but I don't actually see his mouth moving. I'm not insisting I know either way, bit this could _easily_ be fake. The voice itself sounds more like a three year old, while the kid in the video looks to be about one (?)

The Vonnegut story is a good one :)

Posted by: Stephen R. at February 26, 2007 07:20 AM

Come On Tammy admit it !! You lifted that from the Clinton Library !
That was Hilary as a child . "The Smartest Woman in America if not the World

Posted by: raygarb at February 26, 2007 01:56 PM

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