[SubMareener]

Sputnik was not solved by throwing money at it. We were taught mathematics and science. I can still remember the "mental calisthenics" that my eighth grade math teacher put us through each morning. He read lists of three digit numbers and we had to do the sums in our heads. In English class, we diagrammed sentences. You were actually told when you got the wrong answer, and what the right answer was.

[From many - one.]

"Sputnik was not solved by throwing money at it..."

Oh, but it was. I can't tell you how many people got their science and engineering training thanks to "research assistantships" and "teachg assistantships" but it's a very big number and it includes me.

Nowadays we have practically no funds going to advanced education. Fewer and fewer students can make it though college in 4 years because of the work requirements associated with student loans. Then they face enormous grad school costs and are in competition with foreign students whose governments, in many cases, are paying theor way,