translation of the principle’s words: “Let’s place a priority on failure to work hard enough over success.”
His message to the students: “Learn to get along instead of getting ahead.”
His message to the future: “Lower your expectations of us, we will not meet them.”
Build a school. Call it the school of equality. Only send the smartest there. As your kid gets smarter, he is taken out of school and sent to the school of equality.
This way the smart kid is ostracized by his peers, he goes to a school where his peers are equal to him and he doesnt get ostracized and everyone wins.