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Originally Posted by 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 |
Well said, and you use an appropriate amount of plain every day english to do it. Scucca reminds me of a book I tried to read that I eventually tossed. The author was a professor, and his book was apparently directed at other professors, using such verbostiy that it was hard to follow his train of thought. He even quotes foreigners in THEIR language, as if the average reader or even college professor can read half a dozen languages. Too bad, as I was sure he had some great information to impart that the general populace could benefit from.
I am sure Scucca has some valid points to make, but he needs to dumb it down a bit if he is to gain an audience within this forum. Only intellectual snobs use a dozen five dollar words to say what can be said with half a dozen one dollar words.