Educated idiots
I’m so tired of hearing how the US is falling behind the rest of the “developed world”. First off, the US IS the developed world. Anyone who has spent a minute in Europe or South America or any other country (with the possible exception of Canada and Australia) would immediately recognize that the US is head and shoulders above the rest of the world as far as our standard of living. Our poor people have flat screen TVs, and generally speaking the poor are fat. Show me another place in the world where the poor have it so good.
But that’s not today’s discussion. In the Washington Post, there’s a “study” by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education that claims we’re falling behind the rest of the world in the number of college educated youngsters we produce.
“I don’t know what it’s going to take to get our nation to wake up to what’s happening with regard to the education deficit we’re building,” said William E. Kirwan, chancellor of the University System of Maryland, who will present a similar study by the College Board on improving access to higher education next week.
“We’re standing pat while the rest of the world is passing us by. If we continue on this path, our chances of being the leader in the knowledge economy in the decades to come are between slim and none.”
What dolts. We have so many people going to college, we even send illiterate, drooling morons and let them pay for grade school level “remedial” reading, writing and mathematics classes to keep up with people who are already semi-literate beyond the seventh grade. Here in the northeast, you can’t drive two blocks without driving past another “college” or “institute.” Pennsylvania and New York State are plastered end-to-end with colleges.
We don’t need more colleges, we don’t need more access to college – what we need is a public education system that educates children in something besides the application of condoms to bananas. We need public school teachers who actually teach instead of just passing most on to the next grade and ultimately graduation in hopes they’ll finally become literate in college.
I finished college twenty years after high school and college was a breeze compared to high school. My teachers in high school actually expected me to produce proof that I knew how to learn. My teachers in college only expected students to come up with a believeable excuse as to why they couldn’t learn.
We don’t need more access to college – we need an education system that educates instead of markets themselves to the morons.
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Jonn- I wrote about this myself. I went to college after the Army, some while serving. I think it was a breeze, too. There is something to be said for the education foundation we received in our day. I quiz my kids on things I learned and unfortunately, they know nothing compared to me at that age.
They don’t have a clue about the KGB, Bay of pigs, none of it. I had an eighth grade history teacher who smelled like smoke, coffee and certs, but SOB, he could make you look as dumb as a box of rocks if you didn’t study.
We NEED that kind of teacher today. If they took out the PC and left it to the discretion of the educator, we would all be better off than little Johnny who might get his feelings hurt.
That was splendid rant!
I couldn’t agree more.
Amen, Jonn.
Right on. College has became the place for retarded children to mooch off their parents or the government for four or more years and remain retarded.
I read somewhere that a welfare (career) family in the U.S. lives in a larger home (average) than the average worker in Europe. You only have to look at the wobbling down the street to see they eat very well.
I’m so tired of hearing how the US is falling behind the rest of the “developed world”.
That was my reaction to this “study” as well. We probably have too many colleges in the US and not enough technical and vocational schools to teach young people technical skills and the trades. Not every young person is cut out for college and a profession, but that doesn’t mean that they can’t learn a trade and earn a decent living. Some of the richest, most successful people in the world did not make it through college.
Re: Those educated beyond their intelligence and RV’s statement about “(s)ome of the richest, most successful people in the world did not make it through college”.
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He was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was considered a genius at a young age (IQ measured as 160+). He attended Harvard University “class of ’62), and earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Michigan specializing in geometric function theory. He became an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, at age 25, but resigned two years later.
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#2
At thirteen he enrolled in the Lakeside School, an exclusive preparatory school. He graduated from Lakeside School in 1973. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test and subsequently enrolled at Harvard College in the fall of 1973. He did not have a definite study plan while a student at Harvard and spent a lot of time using the school’s computers. Dropped out at 18 to form his company.
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#1 is Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber (you might have heard of him).
#2 is Bill Gates (of whom you might also have heard).
“We don’t need more colleges, we don’t need more access to college – what we need is a public education system that educates children in something besides the application of condoms to bananas. We need public school teachers who actually teach instead of just passing most on to the next grade and ultimately graduation in hopes they’ll finally become literate in college.”
Right on target, Jonn. I’m surprised that the WaPo mentioned the ever-increasing cost of college tuition. You think Democrats would ever demand a cap on tuition? No, because colleges are run by liberals, from the president all the way to the T.A.’s.
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