Comments by "Younes Mdarhri Alaoui" (@younesmdarhrialaoui643) on "Big Think" channel.

  1. I love the analysis, but I don't think the first solution (5:52) will do any good. We shouldn't look at this as a competition of boys vs girls in the sense that if boys are lacking we should give them an advantage over the girls, which is basically the same as saying we're not going to give the same opportunities to the girls because the boys are falling behind. You'd trade one sexism for the other. All children should be given the same opportunities to succeed regardless of their sex, otherwise we will fall in the endless cycle of inequality of sexes thus harming an individual's potential in becoming a positive contributor to society. We shouldn't even look at this under the gender spectrum. We should rather spend all of our time at tailoring the school system to each individual's behaviour and desires regardless of their sex. For example, boys are knowledgeably more mischievous than girls, but because some girls might also be as or more mischievous than the average boy, we shouldn't set rules that will favour misbehaving boys over misbehaving girls, because whether if it's a boy or a girl is irrelevant, what's relevant though is that she or he is misbehaving. And to be clear, I'm not saying we should not consider gender at all when taking a decision when it's relevant to do so, I am saying that setting gender as the basis of our decisions is one of the dumbest things human beings have done repeatedly throughout history and now is time to stop.
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