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Based on your the logic exhibited in the first post of the sequence:
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"encourage higher education..." LOL
Please, sit down. If we truly encouraged higher education, then the majority of those who graduate with a degree wouldn't be slobbering idiots. How many college educated people are right here, on this very CD forum, who can't spell worth a ****, can't form a coherent sentence, don't understand what they read, have no critical thinking skills, can't do math, do not understand basic economics....and you say that we "encourage" higher education?
No, what we encourage is an illusion.
If we were so educated, then why do other countries rank higher than us in intelligence even though LESS of their people get a higher education?
I must have really smart friends. They absolutely have 'your' and 'you're" down pat.
I have my intellectual friends who constantly post obnoxious stuff on Facebook about grammar.
Then I have less cerebral friends...you know...regular folk.
1 out of 4 Americans do not have a degree.
I don't include internet degrees to be valid though the federal government will give you a managerial position for your slight effort. Says a lot about the federal workforce, right?
Who checks out your groceries for you? Who builds houses and does the pubic utility and roadwork? Who sells you your clothes? Who waits on you in bank? Who hauls your trash away eery few days? Who makes your Subway sandwich? Who is in Afghanistan with bullets flying at them?
I never got one but got enough schooling to command satellites for NASA and other big entities in the DC area. You only need to learn the real meat and potatoes then and your field. I know things they don't teach in university. I've had to teach college grads with 'impressive' degrees how to do the job they were hired for.
Its funny how that works. They get the recognition because of their title. The place falls apart if I don't show up. If they act snooty I let them flounder and they remember who is who. I wrote the software and configured the system - it's all documented but I own it. I got phones calls all the time after I retired because they didn't know. Duh...its all documented...what did college do for you?
I find your observations interesting.
It does seem as if you have somewhat of a bias or resentment of those who are more highly educated, but do not possess the practical skills to function in your line of work without training. However here is a question you need to ask yourself. While you can train these "titled people" to do the job, could you have gone through what they had to as easily? Another words, they may lack knowledge of common sense applications of how to do certain things, but can be taught(i.e. operate certain equipment). Yet could you have taken the road they went down, achieved good enough grades to get an under grad and eventually a graduate degree?
In answer to your last question, on some level I agree with you. Far too many people go to college that either do not have the capacity to use the knowledge they receive to parlay it into anything useful/tangible. It could be because they did not have the intellectual capacity, and were pushed beyond it by programs like affirmative action. Or it could be they were very smart, but chose a field of study that was not practical to get a job in todays society. Still others were coddled their entire lives, and could not change a flat tire despite their higher education. However you cannot assume that just because they are not street smart/savvy, that they do not have the ability to learn those things, and others beyond what the average Joe can do.
Here is yet another study to confirm that the educational system in America is badly broken.
But then what do you expect from anything the government manages.
what's the fu_ing topic?) if America-dumb-then who are the others? if America-dumb-then who are the others? strange relationship - and then - it's important to have not only iq but the other hemisphere of the brain - the combined intellect and soul. many countries have neither the one nor the other
Here is yet another study to confirm that the educational system in America is badly broken.
But then what do you expect from anything the government manages.
Not surprised at all. You have to be pretty dumb to elect Obama.... TWICE!!!!!!!!
And oh by the way, the study was done by Americans....... who are dumb..... so how credible is that?
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Another study confirms Americans are stupid
