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Billy wrote
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,

Then feel free to do so.

If those individuals can be taught that stuff in secondary
school, they can obviously be taught it in a university instead.