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To: MinorityRepublican

In contrast, when Americans born in 1980 turned 30 in 2010, they averaged about eight months more schooling than their parents.

Why does the writer use time in school as a measure of education? The two are unrelated.


2 posted on 04/25/2012 8:18:03 PM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: freedomfiter2

What about the quality of the educated individual? Are students of today better educated? I think not (generally).


3 posted on 04/25/2012 8:22:38 PM PDT by umgud (No Rats, No Rino's)
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To: freedomfiter2

Liberals destroy EVERYTHING they touch.

American education, was one of the first.

For some reason, our side has not deemed it important to take that back from liberals. So the damage continues every. Single. Day.

Full speed.


4 posted on 04/25/2012 8:24:34 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (Obama ate his own dog as a child in Indonesia??)
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That’s because you’re not thinking like a tenured school teacher or professor. I spent more time uneducating freshly minted electrical engineers than anything else. I would tell them your real education began when you hit the shop floor. I was amazed at how little knowledge the had of even basic electronics, or ac and dc theory for that matter.


5 posted on 04/25/2012 8:26:24 PM PDT by factoryrat (e are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: freedomfiter2

Not only that, but if an ever-lengthening time spent in school is desirable, then the authors’ ideal, I guess, would be a generation of people who aren’t ready to enter the workforce until retirement age.

At some point, it has to slow down.


6 posted on 04/25/2012 8:28:38 PM PDT by Hunton Peck (See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
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To: freedomfiter2

“Why does the writer use time in school as a measure of education?”

There is data available based on time in school. Tough to comprehend, I know.


8 posted on 04/25/2012 9:27:01 PM PDT by Rembrandt (.. AND the donkey you rode in on.)
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To: freedomfiter2

“Why does the writer use time in school as a measure of education? The two are unrelated.”

It amazes me that today’s students, with almost limitless resources and money available to them, are becoming tomorrow’s functionally illiterate adults. I work with a Chinese guy who can’t believe it either. He has a Masters from a US university. Where he grew up in China, they didn’t even have BOOKS for students or a LIBRARY.


9 posted on 04/25/2012 10:06:19 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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