Yup-this ^^^^^^
Consistency= consistently average. If you want the best you also have to accept that there will be failure-someone has to be at the bottom. The modern school way of handing out certificates for turning up promotes mediocrity and holds back the intelligent ones.

There is no way half the people in the country are intelligent enough to do degrees - it's just to keep them off the unemployment books a bit longer. Making the degrees easier just devalues them.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 18 Sep 2012, 11:01, 2 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

Same with doctors and nurses really,
People who are more likely to survive should get the best treatment we should just accept that some people die, and use trainee doctors on the elderly or premature babies, and the good doctors on the non smoking, healthy 20-35 year olds with no family history of disease.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 18 Sep 2012, 11:26, Reply)

That's not really the point.
It's more about suiting the education to the child. If someone can't do physics, maths and latin, that doesn't mean they're thick. They might just be better at manual stuff like plumbing or bricklaying or something.

There's no question of them being second class citizens. The country recognises the need for a manufacturing backbone, and tradespeople are thought of in the same way as businessmen. Everyone's doing a job.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 18 Sep 2012, 11:31, Reply)

It fucking does mean they're thick.
Fucking thicky thickoes.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 18 Sep 2012, 11:33, Reply)

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(PsychoChomp, Tue 18 Sep 2012, 11:36, Reply)

Ooh you bitch!

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 18 Sep 2012, 11:36, Reply)