CARSON: Success for the dumbest kid

The Washington Times ^ | August 7, 2013 | Ben S. Carson

[jazusamo]

In America, a good education is available everywhere

These days, it seems like everything is made into a political football. Perhaps the one thing we can agree upon is the importance of education for everyone.

Currently in the United States, approximately 30 percent of the people who enter high school do not graduate. This was considerably less of a problem during the agricultural age or the industrial age, when all one needed to be successful financially was a strong back and a willingness to work. Now that we have advanced to the technological-information age, education has assumed paramount importance for success in one’s own life and for the future of the country. It would not be accurate for us to assume that everyone who graduates from high school in America is well educated. Gone are the days, for the most part, when vigorous academic standards judged the passage from one grade to the next and social promotions were rarely done.

My mother, unfortunately, only had an opportunity to obtain a third-grade education prior to her marriage at age 13 and her move to Detroit with my father. A divorce ensued when she discovered that he was a bigamist, and she was faced with the task of raising two young sons on her own.

She worked as a domestic, sometimes cleaning two or three houses per day, but she was very observant and noticed that the owners of the homes she cleaned were very well educated. She made a correlation between education and financial success and began to crave education for herself and for her two sons. She made us turn off the television and read books and submit to her written book reports — which she couldn’t read, but we didn’t know that...

[Mr. K]

Ben Carson is a GODSEND~!

Too bad the libtard media don’t think so.

[jazusamo]

Ben Carson *Ping*

Please Freepmail to get on or off this list…

[jazusamo]

Agreed, he doesn’t fit the mold of the enemedia thinking.

[Hojczyk]

If the parents do not care the kid will be a dummy .. most of the time..and most teachers in poor areas do not care.. my kid is a doctor and his kids are having a hard time....they never read or did much when the kids were young 2-6

[Still Thinking]

In America, a good education is available everywhere

I disagree in part. The smart kids are discriminated against because political dogma requires all the kids to be taught together, which in turn requires dumbing down the curriculum to the lowest common denominator. Then, an [un]healthy dose of collectivist lies is mixed in with whatever learning takes place. This even creeps into the official curriculum; witness the replacement of history with "social studies". I can't even stand the name. If all those things were corrected, then I'd agree with Dr. Carson.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The problem is that many inner city blacks have no value in education and actively try to tear down any black child who tries to do well in school.

[Phillyred]

girls and boys need to be separately educated as well. There is a huge maturity difference and they tend to learn differently.

[Responsibility2nd]

In the darker American period of slavery, it was illegal to educate a slave. Slave owners recognized that an educated individual is a free individual. The same is true today, and it benefits everyone in our society to maximize the education of every member of our nation. We produce 70,000 engineers per year in America, while China produces 400,000 per year. We are unlikely to be able to close that gap in an increasingly technological world unless we ensure the solid education of every American.

 

Liberals today also recognize an educated individual is a free individual. That's why they still keep blacks dumb and uneducated and as slaves on the liberal plantation.
 

 

[Venturer]

Find a dropout today with a strong back and a willingness to work hard.

Todays dropouts are too busy burglarizing homes and doing drugs.

[The Great RJ]

There is a huge difference between what a typical eighth grader was taught 100 years ago versus today. Eighth graders 100 years ago had far more practical knowledge, knew basic math that would allow them to work in many positions and were quite literate. Today we have high school graduates that are functional illiterates, have little if any practical knowledge and can hardly do basic math with a calculator. I would love to see today's high school seniors and their teachers for that matter pass a standard achievement test that eighth graders had to pass 100 years ago.

[Mr. K]

CARSON is the one the media should go to when they need a ‘black opinion’ - not the “reverends” shorpton and jackson

[jazusamo]

Absolutely, but they’ll treat him as they do Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams.

[ApplegateRanch]

This was considerably less of a problem during the agricultural age or the industrial age, when all one needed to be successful financially was a strong back and a willingness to work.

So, tell me again, "Comprehensive Immigration Reform Dems & RINOS, WHY DO WE "NEED" TO IMPORT MORE UNSKILLED, UNEDUCATED LABOR?!?

Also, tell me again, Social; Welfare Dems and RINOS, WHY IS IT "GOOD POLICY" TO DESTROY THE WORK ETHIC BY GIVING AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TO AS MANY AS POSSIBLE?!?

[SMARTY]

All my grandparents came here from a place where education was rare and restricted.

Even IF you could afford it, our people were excluded.

For my grandparents, calling someone a ‘student’ or an ‘educated person’, was the best thing you could say about them and the highest compliment you could pay them.

People lazy about school were NOT tolerated in our family.

[Nepeta]

No ethnic group in America has been able to assimilate/join the middle class without families that believed in education and made their children learn English and take school seriously. Their degrees of success are related to how strongly parents believed in education, made their kids study, and made sacrifices for the best education possible.

[upchuck]

Last of Dr. Carson's article:

The added gigantic benefit of a well-educated populace is spectacular innovation and savvy voters who do not have to be spoon-fed and who are difficult to manipulate. That is something that should be highly desired by all political parties and by every nation that wants to be self-sustaining, happy, healthy and independent.

Unfortunately, about the only way to become well-educated today is through homeschooling or an excellent, religion-based private school.

The public schools DO NOT produce "spectacular innovation and savvy voters who do not have to be spoon-fed..." The public schools are doing a real good job if the graduates have the requisite knowledge to work at McDonalds or Wendys.

Dr. Carson is a public treasure. I'd place him beside Mark Steyn.

[7thson]

That is kind of strange. When I was growing up, I do not recall my parents ever reading with or to me. However, both my parents were avid readers. They always had a newspaper, magazine, or book with them. Always reading. And all my brothers and sisters (6 brother, 2 sisters) are avid readers. Granted, I do not read as much as I use to. I put this down to partly being too busy and as I got older, I am more picky as to what I want to read. Todays books seem to me like the movies - most suck. And I do not go to the movies as much as I use to.

[mom.mom]

Why can’t public schools be as good or even better than the most prestigious private school? The public school even pays teachers more. Algebra is algebra.

[jimsin]

Gone are the days, for the most part, when vigorous academic standards judged the passage from one grade to the next and social promotions were rarely done.

OH Yeah! wul i grdjuated h.s. n i lernt to reeed and rite ok. whuch u talkn boud willis?