Comment Comment by deilline > Very few individuals are responsible for key advancements of civilization.Is this true? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroic_theory_of_invention_and...Another example is the Finnish education system aiming to raise the floor instead of increasing the ceiling.I can think of counterexamples in Hungarian mathematicians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)A lot of them knew each other growing up, but you could argue they would've succeeded anywhere.If this question were more carefully explored I think it'd do a lot for the author's argument as a whole. parent deilline 5 years ago
Is this true? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroic_theory_of_invention_and...
Another example is the Finnish education system aiming to raise the floor instead of increasing the ceiling.
I can think of counterexamples in Hungarian mathematicians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)
A lot of them knew each other growing up, but you could argue they would've succeeded anywhere.
If this question were more carefully explored I think it'd do a lot for the author's argument as a whole.