Posted on 03/18/2022 7:45:25 AM PDT by karpov
Contrary to popular belief, the wars of tomorrow won’t be fought in the trenches. They’ll be fought in labs and lecture halls around the world. Powerful minds, rather than powerful machines, will prevail. And if powerful machines are to prevail, then powerful minds will be required to create such machines. China, the United States’ biggest rival, is busy creating a new generation of individuals with powerful minds.
In fact, according to the Center for Security and Emerging Technology, a think tank dedicated to examining international security and emerging technologies, based at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, China is fast outpacing US STEM PhD growth. “Based on current enrollment patterns,” the authors predict “that by 2025 Chinese universities will produce more than 77,000 STEM PhD graduates per year compared to approximately 40,000 in the United States.” Well over “three-quarters of Chinese doctoral graduates” now specialize in STEM fields, a trend that threatens to “undermine US long-term economic and national security.”
This is, clearly, bad news for the United States. The demise in educational standards across the country is as profound as it is evident. To compete with China, and to essentially save the country from becoming second-in-command to a tyrannical regime, the US needs more STEM students. Without enough STEM graduates, scientific progress becomes difficult, if not impossible.
A fundamental ingredient of all STEM subjects is math, something millions of American students struggle with. It is not controversial to say the following: US students are bad at math. In fact, out of 79 countries, the US, supposedly the greatest country in the world, now ranks 31st in math literacy. Why?
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As long as none of the pieces are white.
Students can focus long enough for checkers.
I’m no sure chess is the right game. There is a famous quote:
* A man who is good at chess is good at chess
* A man who is good at bridge is good at life
Chess requires one very specific type of thinking, more complicated games like bridge are an all round mental workout.
My understanding is it’s largely memorization of moves.
I credit early, extensive, competitive chess playing in school for a lot of my better thinking qualities I possess today.
Those “memorized” moves end about five moves in.
Reading great literature will make smarter STEM students.
I dare them to try it.
“My understanding is it’s largely memorization of moves.”
The opening
The middle game
The end game
Its only memorization is probably within the first five or eight moves in the opening. After than that the game takes on a life of its own.
Why is it of value to compare American students with Chinese students? That’s a question no one ever asks.
The USA has an extreme education problem. The public school system is always on the verge of collapse, it’s not cranking out smart kids, and the solution is always to rob the taxpayers a little bit more.
So this article says “We need more STEM students” and I don’t have to read the whole thing to know that what “we” REALLY need is to dump more $$$ into the public schools.
The USA will be competitive on the global scene as far as smart kids if more students attend private schools or are home-schooled. STEM is a great idea that will be easier to deploy in the private school setting.
The article doesn’t really address how crappy the average public school is. During my wanderings online I have actually met/chatted with people under age 20 who were really smart and excellent students who enjoyed school and didn’t have to be pushed to excel. (I know: Weird, huh?) The ones who attended public school ALWAYS reported that the school environment itself was a sort of hell, however. The article blabs away about how we need to teach kids to play chess so they can be competitive with the Chinese, who will TAKE OVER if we don’t hustle and catch up with them. I dunno. The Chinese are over there and the Crips and Bloods, the illegal aliens in their 20s/30s attending high school in the US, the extremely crappy teachers teaching Critical Race Theory: They’re all RIGHT HERE. Let’s worry about that first. Let the Chinese go hang.
Kinda questioning this idea. No matter how stupid a kid is or how bad a student, he’s usually not so dumb he can’t be taught how to operate a firearm or a tank, or some other piece of Military equipment.
Teach them to play chess? LOL, some of these kids are a lost cause. They are already cannon fodder, if you know what I’m saying. Let them shoot at our enemies instead of each other and maybe they can get some education in the meantime.
Did the “smart guys” win WWII? Or was it the guys with the most toys? Yes, we’ve “lost” some things since, mostly because we’ve been handicapped by such entities as the UN. But let’s face it, if we were to give it all we had each time, we might even be owning a part of Asia right now, instead of worrying about their kids being smarter than ours.
But is it not reapplying situational moves over and over?
I think strategy and war video games helped me. Pac Man not so much...
The COVID-1984 Scamdemic also showed that STEM have fields have been corrupted.
The acronym needs to be changed from STEM to FTEM as in Fauxi Technology Engineering, and Math because Fauxi is Science. NOT ONE scientific group stood up, disowned him, and called him out as a egotistical fraud.
The "scientists" went along with face diapers despite clear evidence that they don't work.
The "scientists" refuse to address the sick, false idea that XX = XY.
As for Technology, how many continue working with technology to spy on citizens? How many continue to support korporations using it to spread propaganda? How many programmers are involved with vote changing software and machines to steal elections?
As for Engineering, the examples of the Boeing 737Max shows that engineers are willing to overlook safety when it comes to paychecks.
As for Math, the "Globull Warming" "hockey-stick" graph and flawed data is still being used to justify Communist controls of countries and industries by the globalists.
No mathematicians challenged the clearly flawed math that came from the Imperial College in London. The author of the scam data, Neil Ferguson, wasn't run out of the industry. The college hasn't been removed from any academic group despite such fraudulent output. It's not "Mr. Neil Ferguson, exposed fraud professor" and "the former Imperial College of London".
The Boeing 737 Max engineering was outsourced to street poopers.
Once beyond the initial moves, everything is based on understanding attacking and defending, with the outcome being the win by pinning down the opponent’s king before yours can be pinned down.
You have a lot of strategy, with which you use many tactics.
The whole game is constantly new and has nothing to do with memorization after the opening moves, because you can’t memorize trillions of moves from both sides.
recognizing that the mind of the citizen is a country’s greatest asset is the signpost of an actual progressive nation. The Deep State is hellbent on creating an ignorant and superstitious medieval New Age peasantry. Let’s not give them their wish. Every conservative parent should have as their child rearing strategy the goal of creating genius. It’s that ding dong simple.
Just FYI, I wasn’t attempting to trivialize what it takes to be excellent at Chess. Even if it’s very specific, it’s still very deep in that specific way.
“I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all-around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different.”
Bobby Fischer
First Rule of Chess Club?
Hide from Fight Club
Suddenly music, modern dance, street improv and graffiti will be added. Pretty soon you won't even have time for math and chess
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