You aren't wrong, it's a long spiral process that has been going on for many years, and I think you can trace it to the changes made in our public school system. (Yes yes I know I have probably ranted about this before but...) When government standardizes changes to things that resulted in one of the most well educated countries in the world, merely on the say of some theories (and political pressure), what happens is not just proving or disproving the theories, but a cascading disaster where one poorly educated generation goes on to educate another, and so forth. The last 20 years saw the fallout, because it was the dominance of the so called baby boomer generation, and now us. You know as well as I do how poorly educated our country has become. We have become a country where rather than take special time to educate children, we pass them on to someone else so that they "don't get left behind". It is a sad state, when a country is worse educated when there is a special class and multiple teachers for every age group, than when it had one room schools with a single teacher for a broad range of ages.
Not that it's just the school system, the parenting is just as much to blame, more so....
And there is a chance for recovery, but it isn't certain - in chaos theory it has been noted that when a system reaches a critical mass, it can spontaneously order itself.
The same happens in society. Usually critical thinkers become the dominant force, and reform society for awhile. Which is how the USA got founded in the first place. It is amazing it lasted as long as it did before a bunch of idiots screwed the whole thing up......
I have more to say on the subject but I am prone to ramble off in even more directions than you did so perhaps another time.
p.s. Lines don't seem too break automatically.. nor will it let me break them.. thats alright I guess. My thoughts are an unformatted mess, so my comment just looks a bit more like the thoughts that inspired it. ;)
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Educational Problems
Wed 10/18/06 by aj (not verified)Okay... I'll bite.
You aren't wrong, it's a long spiral process that has been going on for many years, and I think you can trace it to the changes made in our public school system. (Yes yes I know I have probably ranted about this before but...) When government standardizes changes to things that resulted in one of the most well educated countries in the world, merely on the say of some theories (and political pressure), what happens is not just proving or disproving the theories, but a cascading disaster where one poorly educated generation goes on to educate another, and so forth. The last 20 years saw the fallout, because it was the dominance of the so called baby boomer generation, and now us. You know as well as I do how poorly educated our country has become. We have become a country where rather than take special time to educate children, we pass them on to someone else so that they "don't get left behind". It is a sad state, when a country is worse educated when there is a special class and multiple teachers for every age group, than when it had one room schools with a single teacher for a broad range of ages.
Not that it's just the school system, the parenting is just as much to blame, more so....
And there is a chance for recovery, but it isn't certain - in chaos theory it has been noted that when a system reaches a critical mass, it can spontaneously order itself.
The same happens in society. Usually critical thinkers become the dominant force, and reform society for awhile. Which is how the USA got founded in the first place. It is amazing it lasted as long as it did before a bunch of idiots screwed the whole thing up......
I have more to say on the subject but I am prone to ramble off in even more directions than you did so perhaps another time.
p.s. Lines don't seem too break automatically.. nor will it let me break them.. thats alright I guess. My thoughts are an unformatted mess, so my comment just looks a bit more like the thoughts that inspired it. ;)