Concepts for Education?

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What do you think about these concepts?

1. Abolish mandatory schooling. Kids who don't care should not waste taxpayer dollars.
2. Cut the number of teachers in half, but double their paycheck. This would drastically increase the quality of teachers, but drastically increase the size of classrooms. One of the reasons all your teachers are so stupid, is because they went to graduate school only to get a 30-50k paycheck.

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What the fuck is a smart person? :P

I've met people who, sometimes, are clever... and I've met people who are very knowledgeable about a broad array of things, and I've met people who are incredibly knowledgeable about one thing (and know little of things I thought everyone knew). Once while camping, my cousin and I lost our food supplies when we were about 70 miles from our car. My cousin who'd been held back in school 2 years consecutively (he was a 16 year old highschool freshmen) caught a fish with his bare hands, then prepared a fire to cook it on. Since then I've gone on to score in the top percentile on the SAT, ACT, and LSAT... but I'm inclined to think that my brainiac ass would have gone hungry, and to be honest, I'm not sure I would have even been able to find my way back with a compass and a map.

So yeah, when you come up with a comprehensive and useful definition of intelligent... maybe then I can answer your question.