Mach

Should university funding perhaps be toned back in favor of early education and parental involvement/education programs? I think you can make a good argument for that. Was that the primary focus of the thread?

I would buy that based on personal experience. Successfull people are usually those with aptitude and good early education in my experience, and college while almost necessary for some disciplines, and certainly efficient for many, can be window-dressing.

The U.S. does not have a culture that fosters education and intellectualism on the whole. Some sub-cultures actively reject both. Some go so far as to invest energy in fighting these things(!).

Some sub-cultures to place a lot of value on this. Presumably the Jewish culture does, and reaps the rewards, empircally.

It usually takes generations for such changes, while we want results every 5 years, realistically given human emotions it has to filter down through a generation to see significant change, even if it's rationally good and obviously correct.

-Mach

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