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Sitting in a high school classroom are two highly intelligent teenagers:

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Student "X" is highly proficient in academics, his natural talent. He clearly understands literary structures, parts of speech, and is an excellent speller. When he looks under the hood of a car, he has no understanding of mechanical structures or the process that make the car run. He makes efficient use of the car without understanding mechanical systems.

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Student "Y" is highly proficient in mechanics, his natural talent. When looking under the hood of a car, he clearly understands mechanical systems, internal parts of the engine and what their function is. In the classroom he has no comprehension of literary structures, neither can he transfer his thoughts to paper. He makes efficient use of spoken language without understanding its structures.

The formal education system only measures academic talents, not mechanical or other non-academic skills. Question:

  1. Which student will be labeled most likely to succeed and receive scholarships?

  2. Which student will be labeled a failure and drop out of school?

You know the answer. What you may not know is, if the school offers auto mechanics training, student "Y" would not be allowed to participate if his academic grades were below "C", the one subject he could excel in. Through self-fulfilling prophecy, the education system trains non-academic talented teenagers to be failures. This failure is guarantee by societies acceptance that "anyone who cannot master academics lack ambition and cannot learn." The Self-Discovery School can give these teenagers a second chance.

 
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