What's right with America? A bright educational future, and the internet is making it possible

American Thinker ^ | 09/30/2021 | Uldis Sprogis

[SeekAndFind]

If you just narrowly focus on the media news, economics, human morality, and politics in general, then you may prematurely conclude that America is plunging into corrupt decadence, which also ended the Roman Empire, and that there is just too much wrong with America and no easy fix in sight.

If you focus on the vanguard of developments in education, science, and technology, then you may conclude that there are a lot of good things going on and that there are a lot of right things going on that offer a lot of hope for many in the near foreseeable future.

Yes, many of us are destined to lead mediocre lives, since many are satisfied to live with or are stuck with old, rather fruitless, habits. However, if you can develop courage, integrity, ambition or desire, determination, perseverance, and a can do-spirit, then your future opportunities will abound.

All you need to include is a useful education and self-education. If you desire improvement, then you can gradually climb the economic and social ladder to a prosperous level, and the climb will mostly be a happy one, with some transient setbacks along the way.

A useful quality education should be the goal of every nation because theoretically, a useful education passes on the culture of the old generation onto the new generation with some modifications. It is not only important to stimulate intellectual curiosity and pass on useful old knowledge, but also important to pass on the learning of good character or good social behavior, which should start in a happy, financially responsible, functional family life. Fail to indoctrinate the value of integrity, trustworthiness, dependability, competence, a positive work ethic, caring, and friendliness, and you create a recipe for individual failure and ultimately social chaos and dysfunction.

[SeekAndFind]

Education in the STEM fields — science, technology, engineering, and math — with the help of talented individuals has led to remarkable progress in space, rockets, drones, robots, artificial intelligence, computers, cell phones, self-driving cars, and the dissemination of knowledge via the internet.

Internet education is revolutionary because ANYONE at ANY AGE can access the internet and relatively easily self-educate with all the free and low-priced courses available from even some top universities. There will soon be no excuse for not learning about a subject that interests you, since everything will be available via the internet, with a laptop or cell phone being almost the only tool needed.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

I dunno about you, but trying to read complex subjects on a screen is sheer torture.

And education (as opposed to indoctrination) requires mastery of complexity. Especially in MAST and STEM.

[Retrofitted]

I agree with you. I usually go with lecture-based video instruction myself, like Udemy and Khan Academy. Seemed much simpler to pick things up.

[Little Ray]

Apparently he missed the part where providers can be de-platformed for putting up un-approved content.

[adorno]

...if you can develop courage, integrity, ambition or desire, determination, perseverance, and a can do-spirit, then your future opportunities will abound

To do any of that, you have to overcome the democrats and their control of the liberal media (Facebook, Twitter, Google, NY Times, WashPost, etc), and from what we all already know, the democrats ain't having any of it.

Democrats, like all good communists and dictators, don't want people to have or attain freedoms, because, those are dangerous to tyrannical regimes.

[Robert DeLong]

Uldis Sprogis

He seems to ignore realities, while waxing on the positives that could be, while offering no real path forward to make it happen.

[MinorityRepublican]

I predict that a lot of jobs will be outsourced to India. A lot of people are working at home and they’re pretty expensive. Might as well as move jobs to India and save a lot of money in doing so.

[Sequoyah101]

ANYONE can access.

We have no monopoly on this. What we do have a monopoly on is a growing fraction of people with no back ground skills or ambition to use the information available.

This claimed benefit is not going to uniquely save us at all. The world is rapidly catching up.

[JeanLM]

“The world is rapidly catching up.” This is true but the resulting progress will benefit us as well , just as our past progress helped the whole world. 7.5 billion people with access to all the available world knowledge and connectivity, is much more powerful an engine than the old technology base of Europe, Japan and North America. There are a lot of smart people out there and what they produce won’t be limited by borders.

[SuperLuminal]

Ahhh yes...
Good old American Stinker gives us more rotten propaganda tripe...

[Fellow Traveler]

On YouTube try searching for 3 blue 1 brown. College level math explained very clearly. There videos are excellent!!