"Billy" wrote in message
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"HeyBub" wrote:

Billy wrote:

Fantasy?

Hellooo, what 'chew smokin' boy? We're not an agricultural society any
more. Things changed after WWI. Weapons were mechanical and we needed
soldiers who could read the damn manuals. Before WWI, most people were
lucky to finish the eighth grade, which was fine for plowing fields,
tossin' hay, and building fences. Done any DNA analysis with
electrophoresis lately? Uh-huh. In the 19th century high schools and
Colleges were rich folks prerogatives. These days you need a PhD. just
to assure your self a slot on the day shift.

Heh! I have a 5th grade math textbook, published in 1905. I've also got
two
degrees in mathematics and I'm hard-pressed to solve some of the problems
(and it's not just because the problems involve rods, pecks, and mules).

The former president of Boston College was asked what single thing could
be
done to improve the quality of education in this coutry? His answer:
"Close
the colleges of education."

It's almost criminal that no single, living, Nobel Laureate is legally
permitted to teach in the public schools of my state (and probably
yours);
Nor can a retired engineer, nurse, physician do so either. No Pulitzer
Prize
winner is permitted to teach middle-school English. I could go on and on,
but you get the idea:

The inmates are in charge of the asylum.

Wanna feel better about the 'Merican educational system? Check out the
Nobel prizes in science for the Twentieth Century awarded to Americans.
Not too shabby. Explains why scientists who want to be cutting edge,
make sure to attend American universities. We aren't worse. We are
different. Primary and secondary have problems but not the Universities,

Universities are having to allot more and more budget to remedial math and
reading skills to their freshman because of the primary and secondary
problems. This increases the cost of tuition overall, ultimately increasing
the difficulty of students paying for their education. This will continue to
be a problem as long as......

except turf wars over budgets, idiots trying to finger anti-zionists
and, creation science.

......people pretend the problems in the government schools all have to do
with the fact that .1% of the population has a "thing" about creation
science (completely ignoring the fact that evolution is barely touched on in
any HS class outside of AP Biology.

We're quite good at taking properly prepared students and turning them into
Nobel Prize Winners. Underline "properly prepared." If the children aren't
properly prepared, there's not much that can be done with them.

JG