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Go read Doc Searl’s essay in the Linux journal, called “Getting Flat, Part 2”. Seriously, go read it.

Commenting on Microsoft’s (and others’) practice of screening job applicants by IQ scores:

I can save Microsoft a pile of time and money by reporting a fact no school wants to admit, one that will flatten the world far more than any other factor: pretty much everybody is smart.

And, quoting an article by education guru John Gatto:

After a long life, and thirty years in the public school trenches, I’ve concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius only because we haven’t yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.

The whole article is in response to Tom Friedman’s new book (and the accompanying article in the NYT) “The World Is Flat”. I think Searls’ essay is just as valuable as the writing that inspired it.