(10-22-2019 08:50 AM)bullet Wrote: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rethinkin...27541.html
Some rather disturbing stats:
"No advanced society can thrive without a well-functioning system of higher education. College can be an equalizer, providing opportunity to all regardless of race or class. It can enhance human capital, boosting the economy’s productive capacity. It can make people better citizens.
On all these counts, the U.S.’s system of postsecondary education is falling short. Fixing it will require rethinking what it should be aiming to achieve — and how to pay for it....
The median annual income of people with a bachelor’s degree is about twice that of their high-school-educated counterparts. College graduates are also happier and less likely to die of heart attacks.
Unfortunately, the benefits appear to have little to do with what people actually learn. A 2009 survey across 25 institutions found that four years of college had only a limited effect on critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing. About a third of students saw almost no improvement at all. A separate 2006 study, based on the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy, found that just 31 percent of college graduates could correctly explain and compare opposing newspaper editorials...." <the latter explains a lot>
Fixing it will require the abandonment of identity politics and the treatment of each person as a unique creation with gifts and graces which are to be identified and built upon and the agreement that at the grade school level competence must be displayed across a baseline of subjects.
Teaching individual achievement, personal responsibility, and allegiance to the only country we have should also be essentials of a well rounded education.
Educations job is to teach people how to be productive in moral in and ethical ways. It needs to teach and orient students to our way of life (what it means to be a constitutional Republic, how capitalism works, and what it means to be a productive citizen).
We are failing miserably because we are not doing any of these things. We stress diversity (identity politics) which divide rather than unite the nation, we don't teach kids how to be productive, we don't teach them their rights and responsibilities as citizens, we don't teach them the common morality of law and consequently the ethical relationship between business, government, and citizenship, and worst of all we teach them how to bellyache to get what they want, which is destructive to all of their future relationships inside and outside of work.
It's not just a failure of the education system, but rather a subverting of it with the intention of destroying our society.
Nothing can be so intentionally wrong without being orchestrated. Stupidity is random and imprecise. What we have today has been intentionally instilled across a spectrum of disciplines and carefully introduced and groomed to reach its current level of destruction.