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The government schools, with their emphasis on the lowest common denominator and constant experimentation with factory education, even when the factories themselves are long gone, have a problem with the bright and odd.

http://news.mit.edu/2015/ahaan-rungta-mit-opencourseware-mitx-1116

Of course the purpose of government education isn’t to produce remarkable individuals, it’s to produce mind numbed robot servants for the corporate utopian state.  That’s been the goal of Progressives since Dewey’s time and Progressives have been creating the education nightmare ever since.