Posted on 08/31/2023 9:12:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
This is deliberate to ready the US to turn into a third world country.
Ah yes, our future aircraft and structural engineers. What a diverse group they will be.
Ha ha, what a joke.
“Some ideas are so stupid, only an intellectual would believe them”
The WEF has said they only want people to have enough engineering skills to build a bicycle you bought at Wal-mart.
Can you please provide a link to that? Thanks.
Trust their actions and not their words. Do you have another explanation for the continual decline of academic requirements?
It's a literary device called "hyperbole." Look it up. Thanks.
RE: Trust their actions and not their words.
OK, I was actually expecting an exact quote from someone in the WEF. Apparently, it is by implication.
RE: It’s a literary device called “hyperbole.”
Sometimes, It’s kinda hard to determine whether it’s hyperbold, or whether it’s actually as written.
It is by implication. The reason for the global standard is to commoditize education so everybody is replaceable by somebody else in the world. Your job will always be insecure for that reason and you’ll put up with inhumane treatement just to feed yourself.
Headline is not really true.
They still have to show proficiency.
These days they might learn it better not in a high school class.
Remind me to not ride on any vehicles, drive over any roads or bridges, go into any buildings. etc. engineered by future CalTech grads.
Personally, I think that we’d be better off taking the qualifying of people away from the educational institutions and give that to the professional colleges or trade unions that most of us belong to as part of our work.
Let the institutions teach and let the professional colleges and trade unions do the evaluation to determine if the education institutions are doing their job.
Nothing will change.
Its a PR gesture, so they can claim to be inclusive, non-racist, seeking diversity, or whatever bulls*** PC lingo they are spewing at the moment.
They’ll tell you you don’t need calculus and physics to apply to Cal-Tech, BUT when your application arrives without those things, they’ll drop it to the bottom of the pile
RE: They still have to show proficiency. These days they might learn it better not in a high school class.
Let me try to understand this — calculus, chemistry and physics are STILL required for acceptance but it will not be based on any test ( not even the SAT), but a simple certification from Khan Academy?
In your defense, these days it’s very difficult to discern sarcasm and hyperbole. The nation is almost impossible to target with parody.
If we could trust them, I’d be ok with testing for competency because there are people out there who know these things but didn’t learn it in a classroom. They went out and bought the textbooks and self studied their way to completion.
But I don’t trust them. I think not requiring proficiency is just a step towards removing the education altogether.
Well, I was always a smart guy ... took Calculus in HS ... got a PhD in physics ( From Lehigh U. ) for what reason, I’m not sure. Went on to a career in programming at Bell Labs ...
But, OTOH, I still cherish my self-image as a smart guy. because ... I R 1 ... you know?
I can still do all that calculus stuff. It’s a simple idea with a lot of superficial complication. Anyway, I ate it up.
... so what am I saying ? ... not sure ...
unless it’s ... QUESTION EVERYTHING !!!!
Why not? They’re only turning out a bunch of ‘woke’ dumbshitz these days anyway.
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