Lex is dancing around it.  Highly intelligent people need to go to special schools to flourish and stop all this equality nonsense.  Stop comparing apples and oranges.,(reply>), Mandatory iq tests and a more specialized education system that adapts to individual strenghts would be one of the greatest improvements to society as a whole. Mental issues such as depression and other pathologies would be drastically lowered while the productivity of society as a whole would skyrocket. However such a change would leave the vast majority of teachers out of work as they are not fit to teach anyone with even barely above average iq so they will obviously fight tooth and nail against losing their cushy government jobs.