Oh please. There is education and then there is education as a business. All I've seen from the so called "educated" in this country is a bunch of morons that are too busy protesting things that don't matter yet have no idea how to write a check out or how a lease works. In this country a college education is nothing more than a 1940's high school education...and even then it is lacking. Everyone is brainwashed into going to these schools and paying tens of thousands of dollars for what should have been taught in the public school systems. Half of these people going to colleges have no idea what they want to do and then end up majoring in something pointless that doesn't help them at all in the future. We used to teach trades in high school and give kids exposure to all kinds of different things so they would have a good idea by the end what they wanted to do. Not today. Today we just prep them for college with all kinds of rubbish courses and give then no foundation for the future. The 1970's was the last era of proper education in this country. The school systems here in this country are just setting up kids to be customers of the colleges. The only college education worth a damn in this country is for specialized fields like medicine. Go to a state college and you'll learn all about trans gender bathrooms but not how the world works. In every field I have worked in I was amazed at how much these recent grads didn't know, yet the guy that didn't go has a better grasp on the job. I saw that the most in IT. The added benefit of todays education is nobody knows what its like to fail or loose something. If they do bad in school, mommy fights with the school and the grades somehow change. If they do poorly at sports, they get a trophy. If they "try" in certain schools (read
coalition of essential schools) that is good enough to pass. It is creating a generation of idiots with a piss poor education they paid $100k for.
We went to the moon is the 1960's...yet todays scientist and industry specialists seem to have no idea how to make that happen. You'd think it would be pretty easy.....but not if you have a lesser education than the people who did it in the first place. The did it on rope memory and a fancy calculator. Today we have a super computer in our pocket that could take us there...yet its taking forever. It took them 9 years to do it in the 1960s and 95% of the things to do it weren't invented. Today we have all the knowledge and better tech, yet nothing is happening.
Our education system is run by morons and things like common core are just a complete waste of time and resources. I think education in the 1940's & 50's worked well for us....let's start there. I've seen the course work for 1-3rd grade recently and it is an appalling mess. There was a section dedicated to convincing kids there is no wrong answer. It was like "if Billy has 20 apples, how may of them are green?" No matter what you put, its correct. What kind of rubbish b.s. is that? How about you wake me up when America learns what education is. Less trans-gender bathroom diversity acceptance education and more "here is how money works".
When I went to school they pretended like 1946 - 2000 didn't exist...so we learned nothing. It was all Greece, Egypt, Romans, Civil War, & Revolutionary War. We also couldn't be bothered to learn how the government works...but I can read hieroglyphics and order a gyro . That's ***** useful.
