Man, everybody hates geniuses!
A closer look at the text will illustrate both Americans' raging insecurity complex about smart people, and their laudable but somewhat unlikey notion that training can make up for any differences in ability, because "geniuses" are just lazy dreamers with no practical experience:
Yup, take the correspondence course in public accounting, and you're worth a dozen Elon Musks or Neil Degrasse Tysons!
A list of our potential lazy genius-defeating classes:
Ad from Strange Worlds #5 (1958)
Maybe "passing a genius" is what you're supposed to write on that Rang-a-Tang "Bowel Function" form.
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