"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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John Galt wrote:
"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.

Bull****, the deficiencys can be fixed with any brats that will benefit
from a university education.

Interesting theory, although anything that starts out with "bull****" is
usually referring to everything that follows, not precedes.

I'd prefer not to bet the entire future of the nation on your "theory."
YMMV.

JG