If such an insitution is ever built, and it is what it claims to be (remember that all causes want to become cults), then, believe me, I’d send my children there as a top priority. Such a school should not be for geniuses only, but for the development of the teaching of the Methods of Rationality to all of humanity. To set an example to be followed by all who wish not to be left behind.
I remeber Aldous Huxley mentioning, in Brave New World Revisited, a similar project by some philantrope, who wished to make children immune to propaganda and manipulation. The authorities shut it down because, they said, it turned the teenagers and young adults too cynical and disobedient to Authority. For example, they were able to calmly analyze the Drill Sergeant’s speech as it was given. And obviously, we couldn’t have that, could we? I think such a project has considerably greater chances of success nowadays.
If such an insitution is ever built, and it is what it claims to be (remember that all causes want to become cults), then, believe me, I’d send my children there as a top priority. Such a school should not be for geniuses only, but for the development of the teaching of the Methods of Rationality to all of humanity. To set an example to be followed by all who wish not to be left behind.
I remeber Aldous Huxley mentioning, in Brave New World Revisited, a similar project by some philantrope, who wished to make children immune to propaganda and manipulation. The authorities shut it down because, they said, it turned the teenagers and young adults too cynical and disobedient to Authority. For example, they were able to calmly analyze the Drill Sergeant’s speech as it was given. And obviously, we couldn’t have that, could we? I think such a project has considerably greater chances of success nowadays.