Posted by
Brian Peters on Friday, December 22, 2006 10:22:09 PM
I was going to go take up a few bytes of space explaining why our education system is in the tank, or toilet bowl to be precise. But, I was listening to Neal Boortz a few days ago and he presented a clear picture as to why our education system is totally flawed, so I refer you dear reader to Neal Boortz's radio show and website.
I will say this though, I have been thoroughly convinced for about twenty years that our college and university system is nothing more than huge babysitting/money making institutions. Kids 'graduate' from high school and Mom and Dad scrambled to get their 'kids' out of the house to a college that coming fall. It's not for the kid's sake, it's for the parent's sake. They're tired of the kid's daily crap, lethargy, and zero future potential. So, in often vain hopes the 'kid' is sent to a college with hopes and dreams.
Then the kid, away from home for the first time without parents supervision is unable to cope in society as a functioning adult, drifts into the 'party' mode. The colleges and universities tolerate the weekly binge party's because millions of dollars are flowing into the institution.
So the 'kid' eventually graduates with some basket weaving degree that is meaningless in the real world as far as being a meaningful productive member of society. But the process repeats itself the following fall with the influx of new freshmen. With hundreds of thousands of college graduates in the just past twenty years, one would think that the U.S. would have just about every problem solved in science and medicine. But my ears are plugged today from the vanguard of a bad cold and my best remedy is a concoction of vitamins that probably small island medicine woman a thousand years ago used to help heal her sick tribe people.
Computers are not really jumping in leaps and bounds, every year a faster chip comes out so a college freshman can play his video game faster or more realistic.
Dahfur is still in shambles, Somalia is mobilizing a psuedo-islamic army to invade Ethiopia, the Space Shuttle landed, same shuttle that's been around for those twenty years. We're still dependent upon oil, something is making people sick on cruise ships and Taco Bell over and over, and China now has the distinction of being the producer of 50% of the Worlds manufactored goods. Congratulatons go to the following institutes of higher education for being right now in the top ten.....school to party at.....according to and check it out dear reader: PubClub.com.
1. Texas
2. Florida State
3. Florida
4. Arizona
5. Alabama (they can't play football so they might as well get drunk)
6. San Diego State
7. UCSB. Technically, UCSB stands for "University of California Santa Barbara."Students, on the other hand, say it means "U Can Study Buzzed." It's also the country's only campus with its own beach. Party Central is Del Playa Drive in Isla Vista.
8. Wisconsin (shame on you my home state for allowing this legacy)
9. Georgia
10. Penn State
Don't fret if your school wasn't mentioned, that site list many others for various uneducational reasons....thus my statements stand correct.
I highly RECOMMEND that educators especially go to that site and read the rest of that site, says a lot about where our esteemed education system is really geared mentally.
I've said before, any day, 'observe' a school bus and observe the discipline of the students. Are they going to school to learn or is it just a matte of fact daily routine? As yourself, do those kids really 'care' at all about learning? Learning does start at home, but it extends into the classroom.