Quote Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr View Post
I'm sorry but your idealism is just leading to you talking nonsense. No teacher has the time or resources to try 1,000 different techniques just so they can exhaust every possible avenue for teaching every single student.
We actually do, believe it or not

Quote Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr View Post
Well if these kids are no pursuing a career related to neurobiology, thats great. That's an example of specialising early, they didn't have to know about the Great Gatsby or quadratic equations to do that.
You missed the point....

His point was that any child can learn any subject, that being "dumb" is largely irrelevant to what one can learn.