EDUCATION is falling...Males, Covid,Demographic Cliff

[DudleySmith]

Few jobs being created require even a high school education. Many of those that do are govt. jobs, and white males have close to zero chance of getting one. Any of those that aren't govt. jobs are filled by millions of green cards going to foreign students and Ahmed's cousins from India and Red Chinese. This has been true for a long time.

 

[there4eyeM]

"Education" is continuing at the same rate. It is what is being learned that is declining in quality. Young people have only examples of egoism, materialism and acquiring power as models of "success". "Schools" don't instruct, they merely watch over children for a few hours a day without augmenting understanding or thinking capacity. Society is "educating" youth to be perpetual adolescents, lacking the necessary skills for living to the fullest human potential. Universities have less and less relevance in a world where what is learned in four years is obsolete by that time. What we know about life and the universe is not being integrated into daily reality. Outdated thinking, ideology and religion pollute the intellectual atmosphere to the extent that needed transition is stifled.

 

[Unkotare]

How much would it cost to produce a K-12 National Recommended Reading List? The majority of books are mediocre to crap. So if school is mediocre teachers using mediocre books couldn't an excellent book list be better?

100 books for kindergarten
200 books for 1st Grade
300 books for 2nd Grade
etc.

That would come to 9100 books for K-12.

I could have read this in high school if I had known about it:

The Tyranny of Words (1938) by Stuart Chase

George Orwell mentioned Chase in an essay on politics. Chase published the book, A New Deal shortly before FDR's famous speech. He was a member of FDR's brain trust.

There is lots of old sci-fi free on the Internet now:

Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper
The Servant Problem by Robert F. Young
Black Man's Burden &
Border, Breed nor Birth by Mack Reynolds
Omnilingual by H Beam Piper
Deathworld by Harry Harrison
The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley

All this time and this rain man STILL has only one dopey idea in his head.

 

[Unkotare]

"Education" is continuing at the same rate. It is what is being learned that is declining in quality. Young people have only examples of egoism, materialism and acquiring power as models of "success". "Schools" don't instruct, they merely watch over children for a few hours a day without augmenting understanding or thinking capacity. ...

How do you know?

 

[Unkotare]

Few jobs being created require even a high school education. ...

Completely absurd. Try getting a job without at least a high school diploma. The options would be very, very limited.

 

[DudleySmith]

Completely absurd.

Says a weirdo who is into playing with feces.

 

[Unkotare]

There seems to be something about the topic of education that people who have NO idea what they are talking about feel compelled to pontificate as if they had ANY experience upon which to base their declarations. Just look at some of the comments on this thread. Ridiculous.

 

[Unkotare]

Says a weirdo who is......

Says someone who actually knows what he's talking about.

 

[DudleySmith]

There seems to be something about the topic of education that people who have NO idea what they are talking about feel compelled to pontificate as if they had ANY experience upon which to base their declarations. Just look at some of the comments on this thread. Ridiculous.

Nobody beleives you're some teacher. Get over it, change your name and come back with a new scam.

 

[Unkotare]

Nobody beleives you're some teacher. Get over it, change your name and come back with a new scam.

You don't have to believe anything, champ.

 

[braalian]

There seems to be something about the topic of education that people who have NO idea what they are talking about feel compelled to pontificate as if they had ANY experience upon which to base their declarations. Just look at some of the comments on this thread. Ridiculous.

Around here, you could apply that statement to any subject being discussed.

The people least informed on a subject somehow have the strongest opinions on the same subject