April 29, 2008
Average
You know, pictures like the one above (or videos like this) often leave me dejected about the state of education (and interest in education) in this country.
After all, I consider myself to be an average man in all respects (except for athletic ability, where I'm stuck at the base of the totem pole). No test I've ever taken has labeled me a genius. My intellectual ability and professional achievements are, by all reasonable accounts, ordinary. Completely average. Underwhelming in the face of Ivy League degrees and Nobel laureates.
So, if I know about the 1936 Olympics, and that a supermajority of Israelis are Jewish, am I naive in thinking that most of us know these things? Or do most people not know and not care?
I hope not... I'm not comfortable with the idea that I might be above average at something. If that's the case, then this country has no hope.
Posted by James at April 29, 2008 11:53 AM