On 8 Apr 2013, at 11:56, Bipin Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, we have drifted - we are now on the topic of schools & ...... > Hope you folks won't be upset if I quote what some guys told me here. > That the Public School boys need a calculator to add 10 + 5. Here is a video:- > http://www.glennbeck.com/2012/02/03/sad-video-high-school-students-cant-answer-basic-questions/
When I was student my mates and I wound up some poor middle-aged git in a pub once by telling him that none of us could read, even though we were students, because nowadays (it was about 1975) we had computers to do our reading for us. The poor old boy nearly died of apoplexy. So don't you go believing everything people tell you. Nearly all of us could read. > No wonder Chinese students excel in the US. > And I studied, trained and worked in the US, and I am not dumb, am I > PDMLer Friends? So there must be something good going here in our > schools, as I retired as an Advisor from one of the largest > conglomerates in the world. > Friends, things are not as bad as we think with the schooling / > university system. Just bring back all the industries farmed out to > China - & with it all the basic mental and motor skills will return to > America. Those jobs are never coming back to the advanced economies. Those jobs will also disappear from China when the robots and 3D printers are cheaper than the workers, then the production plants will return, much, much smaller, and more and more of them, to our countries so that we take out the distribution and storage costs involved in moving vast amounts of parts and finished goods around the world. If I were the Emperor of China I'd be cornering the market in raw materials, minerals and so on, by building a new empire in Africa. That way I won't have to educate the mass of my people, which is what's needed for the new economy of ideas, design and licensing - think ARM, Apple, etc - and where the west still has a lead. For now. > I say this after working with (3) of the biggest automobile > manufacturers, and attending hundreds of interviews to recruit > Graduate Trainees. > Regards.i > Bipin - from that far away enchanting land. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
