[Leaning Right]

Here’s why so many Jews are “smart”. Many years ago I happened to be walking on a sidewalk in the Jewish section of town. And maybe six feet ahead of me walked a Jewish man (yarmulke, etc.) with his young son. The son was about six years old.

And the father was talking to the son. I could hear what the father was saying. He was quizzing his son on basic math and science facts, based on what they saw as they walked along.

That’s why Jews are so “smart”. Case closed.

[aquila48]

“And the father was talking to the son. I could hear what the father was saying. He was quizzing his son on basic math and science facts, based on what they saw as they walked along.

That’s why Jews are so “smart”. Case closed.”

Yes, and that’s the result of a higher IQ. A successful culture is applying brain power to figuring out what’s the best way to behave now that will bring future success.

[Ann Archy]

Amen! They won’t allow their kids to be TATTOOED, PIERCED. drop out of school, think that being smart is TOO WHITE, they send them to Hebrew School to learn their Bar Mitvah parts, etc.

[Bon mots]

And the father was talking to the son. I could hear what the father was saying. He was quizzing his son on basic math and science facts, based on what they saw as they walked along.

I did that with my kids when I walked them to school every day... squares, square roots, multiplication tables in their head... every single morning.

One morning I forgot and my young son said, "Dad... aren't we going to do math this morning?" He later went on to get a Masters Degree in Mathematics and teach at an Ivy League University part time while still in his 20's.

[ThanhPhero]

A young friend of mine in Việt Nam does that. When we are out on scooters, his 4 year old little girl is standing in front of him and the trip however short or long is a constant conversation between the two about what they are passing and what causes things they see. Binh is a truck driver and warehouse manager with a high school education. Anh, the little one, has a lot of knowledge about the world around her now and can talk about things almost like an adult. Binh's wife is an accountant and at home reads a lot to Anh out of things like books on accounting. Anh listens to all of it. When she starts school, even in Việt Nam, she will be ever so much more knowledgeable than her classmates. In America that would, in most primary schools, be a real problem. In Việt Nam not so much.