Thread:Ghelæ/@comment-5080468-20170729213650/@comment-47205-20170801181313

I'd certainly say that prohibiting a large number of people from doing science, who are poor but potentially very intelligent, is a good way of hindering development in academic disciplines such as scientific and technological fields. Even worse is if they replace them with a smaller number of people who lack aptitude but whose parents are sufficiently wealthy, although maybe Medwedia's first two prerequisites for higher education are applied well enough to prevent that from happening. Still, they're deliberately forcing themselves to choose from an artificially small pool of candidates, which is not going to get them the best talent.