They will appeal to a prophecy that ruin will come upon a state when it passes into keeping of a man of iron or brass. I believe that that principle, or some form of it, is justice. He reports on the successes of Abdulalim Shabazz and Jaime Escalante in teaching mathematics to Black students who were judged by others to be unteachable. Individual differences are real. Handicapped persons deserve special access and support privileges.
All children can achieve at high levels.
Children who are developmentally behind in school should receive special remedial help. Children who are developmentally ahead in school should be allowed to take special accelerated classes. Women, on average, have better verbal skills than men. Asians and Hispanics are not as tall, on average, as Blacks and Whites Asian and White children, on average, have higher IQ's than Black and Hispanic children. Everyone deserves a chance to become whatever they want to be.