This is an interesting seeties that I think highlights much of what’s going on today. We are a nation of idiots. It has beenm done on purpose and we have got to find a way to reverse this and educated ur young people about what’s going on in their world! This has three part to the series. Very eye-opening.
In a lot of places America no longer has a public education system. What we have is a public day care and political indoctrination system run by and for the benefit of the teachers unions so that mommy can go to work every day without having to worry where the kids are most of the time.
I will offer this analysis, after having spent the last fifteen years in Europe.
We are wasting tons of money and resources...teaching kids beyond the 8th grade. You can pretty much pick out the kids who ought to be given a trade background at 14...give them a 3-year educational package and then graduate them by 17. The other group...call them the smarter kids...but actually sit there and challenge them. Toss philosophy, logic, Greek history, and business management at these kids by age 15 and 16. If they pass a general knowledge test by 17...to graduate them and push them onto college. Entice them with the entire first year of college tuition being covered by the state (but you have to attend the local college nearest your home).
The real problem with American education is that we are tossing the sports issue into the whole mess. We are allowing various punk kids with no real education to pass by high school...cheapening the entire process. The teachers and the administration folks are contributing to this by letting these guys test and “pretend” to pass well enough to graduate.
Then we come to the university problem...where more sports figures use the whole process and then they pretend to get a education...when they can barely read or understand basic logic. It’s like a minor league of basketball or football, which we’ve allowed to develop.
Finally, we’ve accepted the idea of creating huge departments in universities...where a imaginary field of knowledge has been created. Duke operates a major department now with African, and African-American studies. You’ve got various colleges who’ve turned Earth studies into some 1-star science class...and giving us a bunch of dimwits with no true science background.
I could write an entire book about how to fix this...but the truth is that the public and the school system really don’t want the fix.