Educated vs "Non-Educated"

I hope you’re not using that as a reason to keep kids from going to school.

 

Well, there are people cleaning the rest rooms without them.
And I’m sure, people working for Microsoft in a variety of capacities...but they sure aren’t valued or payed any where near as much on average.

 

And you had no public schooling ? You learned to read the directions.....at home ? Amazing.

 

Right wing incompetency.....that’s what the right is now hanging their hat on. Amazing.

 

Directions? I still cannot read a map if my life depended on it.

Where I live actually had a very high literate rate even before public schooling thanks to the church and thanks to merchants learning how to read and count on their own because they needed it in their work.

 

I would had it not been homeschooling being illegal where I am.

 

Hillary Whom ?

 

William Buckley said it best when he said he'd take the opinions of any ten people chosen randomly out of the Boston phone book over the opinions of any ten members of the Harvard faculty.

 

So, the church didn’t teach you to read a map ?

 

I never went to church, I went to public school and they sure as hell did not teach me to read a map even if orienteering was re-occuring theme in gym class. Almost got lost in the woods.

Who needs to read the map in 2020 anyways? GPS.

 

Ha ha
You obviously didn’t get the sarcasm in Buckley’s remarks.
Buckley had a degree from Yale.

 

Maybe map reading required motivation too. Didn’t seem to be that important to learn.

 

Map reading is not something they teach in school. When did you graduate high school, 1785?

 

It seemed to have bothered you.

 

Not really. I was a good student with great grades.

 

Map reading should. It’s a perfect way to teach two dimensional coordinate plane system. I graduated from kindergarten much later.
And yes, I was always interested in navigation. You still need to “read a map” to navigate.

 

So now you support public schooling ? Can’t figure this argument out. Are you bragging or complaining ?

 

Shoulds is the very problem with school. It kills motivation and creates mediocre graduates who know "something of everything" instead of "everything about something".

 

Nope. Public schools provide some great motivation to stay in school. Sports, the band, extra curricular activities, all motivation to stay in school.
It’s up to parents to help motivate for excellent performance.

 

There is a lot to be said for teaching something about everything instead of specializing too early. That’s up to parents and student. That’s what college is about...specialization. If you’re complaining about public schools being too general, you’re complying about the wrong thing. That is their goal.

 

Nothing is up to parent and student where I live. Everything is up to government and school. If a parent chooses themselves, the State throws them in jail and confiscates the child.

 

He was stating his true opinion. He thought ten average people had more common sense than any ten on the leftist Harvard faculty.

 

No, actually, it isn't. You apparently do not think people should actually put forth effort to succeed in their goals, which would make me believe you are of the mind that for some reason, employers are responsible for providing everything the government does not to coddle and pet citizens. Your monotonous complaint that it is the GOP causing all the problems is really not providing support to your point of view.

Please stop and consider the political position of some of the wealthiest people in the United States. I see them doing tons to help offset some of your concern, eh?

https://www.celebritynetworth.com/map/united-states/

 

public education is actually pretty good except in inner-city warzones where learning is pretty difficult. Colleges have traditionally made up for any mediocrity.

Save the crap propaganda and blaming the victims. For those watching Fox news, we have a flat tax system if you count all taxes and so we do not have enough money to invest in our infrastructure and Americans. Reagan started going after public universities which were basically free and Republicans have been cutting help for public universities ever since. so we have millions of crappy GOP jobs that you can't live on and there is no way most people can afford to get training for the new jobs we should be getting from all the sales from emerging markets like other rich countries. We are also the only rich country without healthcare living wage daycare paid parental leave great vacations etc etc. Free stuff oh no not benefits for working. Only the brainwash makes this mess possible.

 

I attended a state university before Reagan became president. I worked my way through college. it was not free.