Losing One's Marbles...Or?

"Otago University emeritus professor Dr Jim Flynn was commenting on census figures that show mothers without a higher education were the anchor of New Zealand's current fertility rate.
"Everyone knows if we only allowed short people to reproduce there would be a tendency in terms of genes for height to diminish. Intelligence is no different from other human traits," he told the Sunday Star-Times.
"A persistent genetic trend which lowered the genetic quality for brain physiology would have some effect eventually."

Yep, this is why Otago University has the highest rating for quality research in N.Z.
He tries to validate his statements by comparison with physical characteristics ... not really acceptable (from physical characteristics to behaviour to traits to constellations to the size of your medulla oblongata, Mmmm..) ... and then he should know that it is our 'smart women' that have tended to become school teachers, but Oh ... our kids are already being 'dumbed down,' so perhaps ...
I think I have heard this notion somewhere before and so has our Commissioner for Children Cindy Kiro who said Dr Flynn was getting into "dangerous territory".
And yes, " contraception in the water supply, could be used to reduce the number of unplanned pregnancies to less educated women." But then a large number of people who have subsequently become well educated would not be here either. After all, is the reason that doctors begat doctors, lawyers begat lawyers, etc. because of a narrowing of vision, a stronger sense of self, of self as better than, of elitism or similar such traits which is from whence such statements have their genesis?
"Rather than talking about encouraging smart women to have babies and dumb women not to have babies, what we do need to do is make the commitment to good quality education."
But Cindy, isn't that what we're doing and it doesn't really seem to be working? So committment is just not good enough ...it is the proper direction though ... it probably has something more to do with practicing basic skills to fluency, just for starters, rather than relying on these skills being established prior to school attendance along with motivation to learn.
Elitist statements like this simply reflect the failure of our education system to redress deficits immediately and unless this happens, learning being cumulative, a large percentage of our children, independent of genetic make up, will fail. The overall impression is that this is what is indeed happening.

And, yep, it is said that the ability to change one's mind is the sign of a mature person, but to change it because of public reaction?
Pills in water comments not serious - emeritus professor indeed.