Benchmark events in the fall of America since 1960...

[ScoPro]

Originally Posted by chociful

Obamacare, you cannot count things that have yet to occur. Unless of course you are

a proven prophet.

Well, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee certainly tried to count things that hadn't occured. lol

How did that work out for those gushing fools?

[DiogenesofJackson]

I kind of disagree with the basic thesis of this kind of study because I don't think that the U.S. has fallen from anything yet. The U.S. is the most powerful nation in the world and as most Americans would agree, might makes right.

If there's anything that could precipitate the country's future fall as the world's only super power, then I'd have to say the downfall of public education will have the most detrimental effect on America's ability to sustain itself as the world's most powerful nation.

I'd say the majority of today's college students are incapable of thinking deeply and of problem solving. Too many seem to think it terms of either...or polar opposites and cannot entertain the idea that there may be more than two sides to any given issue.

I believe the trend in the U.S. is to offer top-notch college preparatory education for the few and privileged and to continue to dumb-down public education. Colleges are no different. It's assembly-line education and most state-supported schools will lower entrance requirements in the near future so as to expand their "customer" base. This is entirely problematic.