On 3/2/2012 1:51 PM, Jerry Barnes wrote: > 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?
No child left behind was the worst idea ... I think school need to start dumping classes like calculus and trigonometry and replace them with more useful classes. Intro to managing money would be a good start. How many high school graduates know WTF compound interest is, how to use it and what it has to do with planning for retirement? If people actually understood their finances, we would probably have fewer problems like the housing bubble thing. > Likewise, college has become a money making scam. Textbooks are > ridiculously overpriced. No kidding. $120 for ONE book that will be used one semester currently in it's 9th edition. Really? How much has accounting changed in the last 10 years that requires 9 editions? 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. I don't know about that. I can't think of any (college) classes that were of 0 benefit to me even if not directly career-wise. That 2 years of French in high school on the other hand .... > > The system is broken. I hear that. My mother is coming up on 40 years teaching in the public school system. It's a mess and it is getting worse. > 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. noted. > J ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:347828 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
