A few hours later, when Charles came to Stark Tower's laboratory to pick up the students, he saw that Stark had hung a sign reading "Mutants Not Allowed" on the lab door.
Charles, having learned the whole story, was also helpless. As one of the rare highly educated intellectuals among Mutants, he understood Stark's anger well. Whenever his conversations with these second-generation Mutants touched on any professional knowledge, it became like chickens talking to ducks, because they had never gone to school at all.
Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters was called a school, but it was actually more like a retirement home. What it taught its students was how to control and develop their powers, not knowledge. As a result, these Mutants, who should have been in college at their age, had empty heads and knew nothing.
To be honest, the students at Xavier's School were already among the better ones. At least Iceman could follow Banner's directions and produce passable results. Someone like Polaris, whose education had ended in prenatal training, who had a bad temper and especially little patience, could truly infuriate an academic-minded person to death.
Charles knew better than anyone that this was not a solution. When everyone was still confined to this little patch of Earth, whether they learned knowledge or not did not matter much. Their abilities were powerful enough that they would not starve, after all.
But once humanity entered the space age, knowledge would become the foremost productive force. The average Mutant education level only reached prenatal graduation because Charles had raised the average. Once they truly entered the age of the greater cosmos, one or two powerful Mutants would be nowhere near enough. Improving basic education for Mutants was imperative.
Yet implementing basic education in any region or among any race