| || upped, outdo, wisest, crayon, "cure-ious".
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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed!
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It is a curious fact, recognized by sages,
That intelligence is independent of our ages.
Once the tool of language is sufficiently possessed,
The presence of genius may be properly assessed.
The first battery of tests will eliminate the chaff.
Those are the normies who can be tended by the staff.
The cut-off is upped for the second battery.
Something a bit extra is what we want to see.
Third battery, we'll see who'll out-do their peers,
The spirit of competition manifests in tender years.
The toddlers who persist will be the wisest of the wise --
Once we cure them of eating paste and crayon pies!
Well, I had trouble with the third and fourth word of the Jumble, but your poem helped me get them, Owen. That in turn helped with the solution, many thanks. Am not sure I got the battery theme of your poem, Owen, but I loved the last line. The cartoon is really neat, with all the stuff on the table and the shelf in the background. And I liked the different jackets, ties, and hairdos on the guys. Nice drawing, all around.
I too had a bit of trouble with the third clue, but writing out its letters helped me rearrange them. And once having all the letters, I found the solution both obvious and clever.
I enjoyed the poem, which raised a number of questions in my mind. I'll only mention the last: crayons, really? Paste is/was popular, but eating crayons? I understand your reason, but yucck!
Well, one more: if the staff takes care of the normies, who takes care of the others? Intelligence is surely not enough to enable babies to care for themselves?
Fun poem, though.
I had TWISTS for #3 and when I got #4 I can couldn't mat h up the second word. Then I just couldn't get #3.
FIW. But the poem gave it away. Intelligence is just one of many factors for success.
WC
I couldn't match up the second word of the riddle
Paste and crayons separately, yeah. But I needed that unholy mix to justify the rhyming "pie".
Batteries of tests (the first probably IQ, the others I don't know) was Erato's idea, not mine. I think she was building up a sci-fi story. I was thinking of Huxley's "Brave New World" of manufactured babies, but it's been like 55 years since I read it. I don't recall how close it was to this scenario.
Oh, and regular day-care staff for the normies, specialists and Spec-Ed for the gifted ones.
Owen, don't you think that it was not so much a matter of testing children as of conditioning them? I believe that was the way Huxley wrote it, but it's been a long time since I read it too.
Another novel that comes to my mind is "Ender's Game". An interstellar war takes generations, so the most able general is tested and conditioned from early childhood, with Ender being the ultimate winner.
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