Time-scales

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "victoriatangoman"
wrote:
> What educational pedagogy will you use? I'd suggest structuring
your
> curriculum on the Socratic Method from the earliest years of
> education that your students receive. Structure the minds of your
> children so that they realize that knowledge is infinite, comes
from
> their own minds, and let them walk with the giants of history as
> they independently discover all of the "truths" that we know. The
> knowledge they gain will be more real because they discovered it,
> and they'll understand it because they found their way to it in the
> first place.

These are thoughtful suggestions, and at first reading very good ones
indeed :)

> I'm still curious about your answers to the other questions I've
> raised.
>
> Also, how does your group deal with an accepted member who marries
> or procreates with a sub-optimal member? Is the member kicked out?
> Is the sub-optimal accepted into the fold? Does the member go to
> orbit and have to leave the mate and children? What's your policy?

Yet another good question!

This one comes up so often that I devoted a column earlier this year
to it, which I have kept available for perusal at the ORION website:

http://pages.ivillage.com/orionaut/id24.html

> Also, take a look at the work of Richard Lynn. He poses a question
> that you may find pertinent to your group in his book "IQ and the
> Wealth of Nations." Namely, how much of the success of a nation has
> to do with the inherent IQ of its citizens. Of course to agree with
> his analysis you have to buy into his key premises which are: 1.)
IQ
> can be measured; 2.) IQ has a genetic components; and 3.) that
there
> is a correlation between IQ and a host of other qualities that are
> inputs into the "wealth of nations" concept. Either way, the
> questions raised are worth looking into.
>
> For your group, you would expect there to be a very positive
> correlation, wouldn't you?

Yep, that's what we're hoping :)

spike