Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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The Permanent Recession

This article raises an interesting point: America doesn't educate all its people effectively. This creates a permanent drag on their earning capacity, which lowers the amount the country makes too.

Report Says Education Gaps Create "Permanent Recession"
Stacy Teicher Khadaroo, The Christian Science Monitor: "Educational achievement gaps are typically measured in terms of test scores - across lines of race and income, or even across state and national borders. But what if they were measured in dollars?"


One way to improve matters would be to narrow or close the gaps in education. Another would be to put some serious effort into matching people's interests and abilities to suitable careers. Right now, we are wasting a tremendous amount of human potential; we should not be doing that.
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Re: Why do you need an education to work a McJob?

ysabetwordsmith

April 24 2009, 17:34:30 UTC 12 years ago

>> I have been complaining for years about the "dumbing down" of Americans via our school systems. <<

So have I. It was bad before; it's disastrous now. I found that school got in the way of my education far more often than it helped. The only two exceptions are math, which I would never have studied willingly but was not worth the amount of harangue that came with it; and typing, which I loathed but pursued because I knew I'd need it. Everything else, give me a book and some gear and access to an expert if I need it, and get out of my way.

>>She may not actually be evil. We're not sure.<<

Perhaps wicked, mischievous, or devious would suit better. Or perhaps her ethics haven't finished growing in yet.
_paegan_

Learn to read and learn to learn

_paegan_

April 24 2009, 23:47:13 UTC 12 years ago

I am ever so grateful I was able to spend so many years in college. Had I spent another semester, I would have finished my major and minor just before I turned twenty-five. Alas, life intervened.

Back to the point. It was truly in college that I learned HOW to develop my mind. Luckily, I was able to pass that along to my daughters as they grew up. I was seventeen and twenty when they were born. Thanks to college, I knew how to learn.

I skated through high school a very big fish in a very small pond and was left to my own devices for most of those years. With no "gifted program", they didn't know what to do with me. I had a bunch of "free class" hours*, something they made up for about seven of us. Luckily, I had a library available to me and my mother taught me to be a reader.

*Obviously, I didn't have enough supervision.