Whatever purposes may be served by rewarding the talented and the ambitious, why should untalented and unambitious people deserve less of the worlds glories and attentions than other people?
Because I see rewarding the talented and the ambitious as promoting excellence; and nine times out of ten I would prefer excellence to equality. (All too often mediocrity is the result of equality.) I want every student in my class to do as well as possible, for example; but the average student is, after all, pretty average. So I have naturally inclined to teach the above average students. Look, this is how I see it personally. Some teachers prefer working with the slow students because they feel more needed by them and because they want to work with the underdog. I prefer to work with the best and brightest with whom you can excel and accomplish outstanding work. Students who are “slow” can exhaust my patience quickly. Q: You talk a lot about “freedom” and quote dead white guys in your webpages. I am an East L.A. chicano (Mexican-American) who feels patriotism when I think of speaking Spanish at home with my familia, attending the Christmas posada, the annual Garfield vs. Roosevelt fo
