U.S. Headed For Economic Disaster
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Quote from Debaser82:
I have a european friend who is a top engineer at Toyota.
He travels around the world 10 months a year.
He says most Americans he encounters are loud, obnoxious and really nobody takes them serious when they talk.
Blablabla.
Ofcourse it could be just prejudice on his part.
The reason that is, is because in most parts of the world only the educated and relatively wealthy can afford to travel, and hence be seen by others.
In the USA your average joe can almost afford a out of the country vacation once every few years and even the nearly poor go on a cruise now and then.
We are sending some of our least educated least desireable americans out to see the world and they are not impressing anyone.
I agree with rabbitone that the weedout process in foreign countries is brutal on teenagers. When you have limited resources. only the best students can continue their education. There is another angle, though. Studies show that kids learn the fastest when they are 2 or 3 years old. In America, 2 to 4 year olds are bombarded by pop culture, sports, entertainment, advertisements during the cartoons they watch, and other distractions. If parents would buy a phonics set and at least teach their kids numbers, the alphabet, and how to spell basic words, teachers would have more to work with in terms of students who already had a learning mindset. Yes, I'm taking a blame the parents approach. It's less likely for kids from a family where education is not strongly emphasized to succeed academically, although there are exceptions.
This used to be the case. Now higher education is just as much a a business in Germany as it is in the U.S. (students now use scantron evaluations in Germany high schools to rate teacher's performances.. i kid you not!)
Hardly surprising when the children are brought up on Batman, Superman, Wonder woman, Spiderman and on and on of ridiculous comic characters.
The generation that has had a high diet of violence from Bruce Willis, Schwarzenneggar, Van Damm etc etc. you can guess whats coming down the line for the future !!
Remeber the violence of West Side Story ?! and that song Gee Officer Krumke we're a mess ?? We got it now !
That sort of crap culture is what we are in for. While Willis and company are spending their zillions ! Yeah thanks guys you've done a crap job and Joe stupid Public is paying for it and then suffering it !!
Makes ya sick
The generation that has had a high diet of violence from Bruce Willis, Schwarzenneggar, Van Damm etc etc. you can guess whats coming down the line for the future !!
Remeber the violence of West Side Story ?! and that song Gee Officer Krumke we're a mess ?? We got it now !
That sort of crap culture is what we are in for. While Willis and company are spending their zillions ! Yeah thanks guys you've done a crap job and Joe stupid Public is paying for it and then suffering it !!
Makes ya sick
Why is NEA cheering Obama's education ideas?
by Elizabeth Hovde, Oregonian columnist
Saturday March 14, 2009, 1:08 PM
The National Education Association appears to be humming "Stand By Your Man," even after President Barack Obama promoted both merit pay and an expansion of charter schools in his recent comments about education.
What gives? Whenever a conservative leader talks about pay differences for educators instead of one-size-fits-all raises, teachers' unions say "no," "no" and, "hell, no." And whenever a Republican supports charter schools, NEA members start calling politicians enemies of public schools.
In a statement released after Obama's "cradle-to-career" education speech last week, NEA President Dennis Van Roekel welcomed Obama's "vision" for strengthening public education and said, "He's off to a solid start. ... His 'cradle-to-career' proposal mirrors what NEA and its 3.2million members have been advocating."
The union clearly heard what it wanted to hear (more money) and ignored much of Obama's talkâ¦.