"A Mind Strong Back Is A Terrible Thing To Waste"
Posted on 11/30/2012 12:31:47 PM PST by Thad Lost
In America, we have a huge problem. A mind is a terrible thing to waste, we are told. Yet we are wasting untold minds in America. America has a huge problem in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
A solution has been proposed to help America but the solution idiotically misses the real problem.
What is this non-solution and what is the real problem America will not address?
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Emasculating boys.. Ignoring boys in the schools.. It’s ALL female, ALL the time. GIRL POWER!!!!
How about those experienced people who KNOW WHAT THE BLEEP THEY ARE DOING but can’t get jobs because they are males over 55?
Eh?
How about their replacements who can’t even speak English?
Eh?
If you can believe it, the WH thinks will be using Title IX to fix the problem of too many males in engineering.
The author is correct. Republican-controlled states need to get to work transforming their school system into a complete voucher-based system: the student gets the money and can take it to any school they want.
Two words, “publik skewls”.
Left wing teachers unions
Sums it up.
I teach and I can tell you the entire school system is set up for the benefit of the teachers, not the students.
No business can be run for the sake of the help and not the customer.
The rampant liberal insanity doesn't help either. The whole "War on Bullying" is designed to demean and denigrate male behavior, too.
0bama was raised by a single mother and a cross-dressing, transgender nanny.. Add Hillary.. Add Charlene Lamb.. Throw Susan Rice into mix, and what do you get? Four dead Americans in Benghazi. The only REAL men in the Benghazi circus are DEAD.
Well, start with wages. If we quit importing H1B applicants from third world countries to do STEM jobs at half of what they should be getting paid, then you’ll see more people from the US go into these positions.
The GOP has been steadily raising the number of H1B applicants allowed into this country for over 15 years now.
One of the reasons why US businesses love H1B engineers instead of US engineers is that H1B engineers are docile and subservient. They can’t make waves while the H1B is hanging over their heads.
Shame and guilt for underachieving has been eliminated! Modesty,thrift,and common sense is old-fashioned! All manner of discipline and self-control is equated with abuse or damaging a child's "fragile psyche."
The celebrity lifestyle is adored and worshipped as young people are fed pipe dreams they they too will be the next "american idol" winner or sports hero so therefore studies aren't important.
Pop culture and cutting corners; doing things the EASY way and living an indulgent lifestyle while being sheltered from said lifestyle's inherent consequences is the norm.
While we do need to reform education (i.e. put control of it back in the hands of local school boards and parents) this article is a bunch of blather.
You want STEM jobs? How much of Steve Jobs success came from what he learned at...what was it...Reed College? Ask Dean Kamen where he got his immense knowledge of physics and technology. Or any other multi-millionaire inventor/entrepreneur. Yes, many attended prestigious universities and I’m not putting any of them down, just pointing out that the only road to success does not run through PhD-land. Get the government out of everyones life, remove stupid regulations and nanny-state rules, and you’ll see more jobs created by entrepreneurs who learned their craft in basements and garages than in the hallowed halls of Haavahd and their ilk.
Having an E degree in the STEM acronym, I can say that my public school teachers didn’t prepare us for the level of vigor required for engineering in universities. That’s because public school teachers don’t know much. It’s easy to teach history because all you have to do is read it and regurgitate it to the students; you don’t have to understand nuthin’. Teaching math, you have to understand it. Why can’t someone who’s a ‘qualified’ teacher simply step in and teach a chemistry class? Because she doesn’t understand it.
These kids aren’t so dumb when you realize that they’ve seen that their STEM parents that are over 40 are unable to get jobs in their field due to age discrimination, H1b visas and off-shoreing.
So it would be pretty stupid of them to spend all that effort, time and money on a STEM education on a “career” that only lasts 20 years at best, wouldn’t it?
"A Mind Strong Back Is A Terrible Thing To Waste"
Under the old, evil public school methods of the mid 20th century, I completed high school never having heard the phrase “self esteem”, understanding that I had no talent, wasn’t terribly bright and would have to work like hell just to survive. It served me quite well.
Engineering, accounting, and the hard sciences were presented as desirable occupations.
Now we have a lot of kids with little other than self esteem.
Finally found something he's qualified for...
The author advocates school choice/voucher, even as KhanAcademy.org is demonstrating the potential/capablity of web sites to supplant lectures and textbooks . . . making homeschooling all the more practical.
Another ping for both the lists.
I have three kids and among them we’re looking at one engineering and two physics degrees at the undergrad level, out of one boy and two girls, who ALL entered college in the honors programs in their respective universities/colleges.
All out of some ignuint, homeschooling creationists.
Imagine that........
Another ping for both the lists.
I have three kids and among them we’re looking at one engineering and two physics degrees at the undergrad level, out of one boy and two girls, who ALL entered college in the honors programs in their respective universities/colleges.
All out of some ignuint, homeschooling creationists.
Imagine that........
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