I'm not Charles Murray, but I own all of his books and tweet quotes from them: one book in the morning, a second in the afternoon, and a third in the evening.
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“The political process in Washington is systemically corrupt in ways that make fundamental reforms impossible. Not improbable but impossible.”
“Demographers often take a lifetime fertility of about 2.1 births as the dividing line between having enough children to replenish the parent generation and having too few.”
“The more resources that are devoted to a marriage, the richer that marriage is likely to be. The richer the marriages in a community, the more the community thrives.”
“The encouragement of wisdom requires a special kind of education. It requires mastery of the tools of verbal expression—not because the gifted will need them to communicate in daily life, but because they are indispensable for precise thinking at an advanced level.”
“within the scholarly community, there is little doubt about differential fertility or about whether it is exerting downward pressure on cognitive ability.”
“Insofar as the UBI permits more women to do what they prefer to do regarding a central life role—mother—it is unambiguously positive for those women and positive for the children as well.”
“Those among the gifted who go on to become members of the elite make decisions that affect the lives of the rest of us. We need to structure their education so that they have the best possible chance to become not just knowledgeable but wise.”
“people with higher intelligence tend to have fertility rates as high as or higher than anyone else’s in periods of rising fertility but that in periods of falling birth rates, they tend to have lower fertility rates.”
“For many women with young children who work only because they have to help make ends meet, the grant can easily represent the difference between financial hardship and being able to get along on the husband’s income.”
“The problem with the education of the gifted involves not the amount of education nor their professional training, but their training as citizens.”
“In 1951, [a] scholar gloomily predicted that “if this trend continues for less than a century, England and America will be well on the way to becoming nations of near half-wits.” The … pessimism was that the average IQ in large families was lower than in smaller families.”
“The UBI does nothing to persuade mothers with children to work outside the home. It makes it easier for them to do so if they want to.”
“About 80 percent of the gifted get a BA. Of those, about half continue to some form of postgraduate education.”
“If reproductive rates are correlated with income and educational levels, which are themselves correlated with intelligence, people with lower intelligence would presumably be outreproducing people with higher intelligence and thereby producing a dysgenic effect.”
“For families in which the woman is already working, the UBI will ease the financial strain of paying for child care. For families in which the woman is not working but wants to, the UBI will enable her to do so by providing resources for buying child care.”
“A large proportion of gifted children are born to parents who value their children’s talent and do their best to see that it is realized. Most gifted children without such parents are recognized by someone somewhere along the educational line and pointed toward college.”
“for women near the poverty line in most countries in the contemporary West, a baby is either free or even profitable, depending on the specific terms of the welfare system in her country.”
“affluence makes a crucial difference for women who want to work outside the home. They have the money to hire nannies or send their children to good day care centers. The UBI makes it easier for mothers in low-income and middle-income households to do the same thing.”
“children are likely to impose few opportunity costs on a very poor woman; a “career” is not usually seen as a realistic option. Children continue to have the same attractions that have always led young women to find motherhood intrinsically rewarding.”
