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Re: Study: U.S. needs fewer, not more, science students

If we could predict which students would be the next great scientists and mathematicians, we would all be billionaires from the stock market. The whole point of having so many more students studying these fields is because you never know who is going to "get it" until they get it.

Just think of why the Soviets were so great at goofy things like rowing and gymnastics. It's because they required EVERY kid to participate until they could determine whether the students had the talent and desire to be the best. Then they weeded out the rest and they had the best gymnasts around. While I'm not saying that we should become the Soviet Union (far from it), but my point is that if you start with a talent pool 10 times larger, than you're 10 times more likely to find good talent. We don't increase the STEM training because we think everyone can go into that area, it's because by giving more people exposure, you're more likely to find the talent and the desire in a place where you may not have expected it.
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