The Emperor's New Clothes.
It's not the idea that some people might be more intelligent, it's that some people might not be intelligent. Nobody wants to think that they might be stupid, and in this era of equality as opposed to equal opportunity, it simply isn't allowed.
I read a newspaper article about Obama's bill involving NCLB, which said that the President's bill would have required all students to test above average, but that language was removed from the bill being considered. To be fair, I have not read the bill in question to see if it actually said that, but I wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry at the old joke come true. We just can't have any below-average children, you know.
