America Needs Talent

[ETcallhome]

Might have to explain to them why US national debt is rapidly climbing, why their tax bills and social costs ( e.g. medical ) will be higher, why a good deal of the world ( especially the Middle East ) dislikes them, why the middle class has shrunk, etc etc.

In other words, under current US policy, if you aren't "exceptional", you're screwed. Only the top 1% of Americans can prosper under your current system.

maybe so, but we are exceptional

 

[Humpy]

We do not need more Phd's. The problem is #1 public education is focusing primarily at the low end of the curve at the expense of the middle and high end of the curve. We dumb down the educational system to make sure the hoodrats can pass a test.

#2 College is expensive and too many people are going to college who have no buisness doing so, this raises prices when too many people chase degrees in underwater basket weaving.

We need to follow the system Germany has.

Which is ?

 

[Humpy]

Ours is to reason why
And not to do and die.

Sucks to ..............LAT

Into the Middle East we blundered.

 

[piezoe]

maybe so, but we are exceptional

I would agree! Merry Christmas.

 

[VPhantom]

A person isn't a bucket to be filled with information, whose competency is and ability to think critically and creatively is measured by filling little round circles. American education kills the natural curiosity of children, which in turn torches motivation: the greatest commodity a teacher has.

(Emphasis mine.) Same here in Canada, by the way. I wasted tons of time waiting for others to catch up in elementary school, I got turned off the concept of school itself in high school (in part because of negative peer pressure - no incentive to succeed) and unsurprisingly I then dropped out in college, when things could've gotten interesting again but where we were forced into very rigid paths that wore me out.

 

[piezoe]

(Emphasis mine.) Same here in Canada, by the way. I wasted tons of time waiting for others to catch up in elementary school, I got turned off the concept of school itself in high school (in part because of negative peer pressure - no incentive to succeed) and unsurprisingly I then dropped out in college, when things could've gotten interesting again but where we were forced into very rigid paths that wore me out.

There is an interesting and related anecdote here. Linus Pauling, who won two Nobel Prizes, one for elucidation of the Chemical bond, and the other for Peace, and narrowly missed out on two other Nobel Prizes, dropped out of high school in Oregon, I think it was his last semester, in protest over having to learn "useless stuff".