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Re:Separating gifted children hasn't led to better achievement by yters on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @10:06PM (#21459392)
On what do you base that claim? Some say other periods and places were much more idyllic than our current state.
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Re:Separating gifted children hasn't led to better achievement by varjag on Thursday November 07, 2019 @09:31AM (#21473473)
I had a history class in school? No period sticks out even remotely comparable to modernity by any metric: violent deaths per capita, general life expectancy, education, leisure time available..
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Re:Separating gifted children hasn't led to better achievement by yters on Saturday November 09, 2019 @11:58PM (#21496471)
If some future historian were to look at the 20th century he would observe a huge amount of violence and death dwarfing anything that came before. I am not certain the modern age is altogether superior.
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