"Jeez, Jerry. Did a nun beat you half to death with a ruler when you were in grade school? Such venom towards education. =-p"
I have something towards "bad" education. Currently, the majority of public schools systems are doing a horrible job of "educating" children. In order to prepare for testing, geometry classes no longer teach proofs. What use is geometry without proofs? As states tighten their belts, schools systems have to make cuts. It's funny how all of the cuts happen in the classroom but none seem to happen at the central office. Money is wasted and abused and not spent on education. They keep cramming more and more students in a class room, yet there are no empty office down town. Likewise, college has become a money making scam. Textbooks are ridiculously overpriced. Students are forced to take classes that will net them absolutely nothing. An undergraduate degree has been so watered down that it almost requires a masters degree to get a good job. The system is broken. "There is a hypothesis that people with fewer resources available to them regarding education will learn at a slower rate than those more privileged. Socioeconomic status has a lot to do with it, but not everything." Without a doubt, socioeconomic status can effect and students ability to learn. However, throwing money at the schools in districts that are predominately poor has not worked. One of my favorite books is "Up From Slavery". Booker T Washington managed to educate himself and thousands of others on less than a shoe string budget. If you haven't read it, you should. Then read this article ( http://www.tsowell.com/speducat.html ) about Dunbar High School and how those trying to help it doomed it to student warehousing. "Adults who know the value of money and the value of education, and are lucky to get a second chance, and know it." "18 year olds who don't know either. There is a bit of a difference." Whoah. I have had young student paying their own way and they definitely know the value of work. I have also had adults who are part of "special" programs who don't have to pay. Their results are more varied. Some work hard and some do not. In general, when someone else is picking up the tab, the results are worse. Not always. "I am convinced that math majors are not completely human." They're definitely strange. J - Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will. - Nelson Mandela ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:347822 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
