{"id":5842,"date":"2008-12-03T09:09:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T14:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=5842"},"modified":"2008-12-03T09:09:57","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T14:09:57","slug":"educated-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=5842","title":{"rendered":"Educated idiots"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

But that’s not today’s discussion. In the Washington Post<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

We don’t need more access to college – we need an education system that educates instead of markets themselves to the morons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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