The reason we put everyone through school is we believe that it’s in society’s best interest to educate everyone to the peak of their abilities. It’s good for many different reasons.
It would be much easier to identify gifted kids and only educate them, but I happen to agree that universal education is better.
There’s downsides and tradeoffs but yes, if we wanted to we could stop trying to teach kids with below average IQs calculus, unless they specifically wanted to.
It would be much easier to identify gifted kids and only educate them, but I happen to agree that universal education is better.