Math is a universal unspoken language. It is a crime what has happened to math studies in US schools.
Not too bright, folks, not too f_____ bright. But if you talk to one of them about this, if you isolate one of them, you sit him down, rationally, you talk to him about the low IQ’s and the dumb behavior and the bad decisions, right away they start talking about education. That’s the big answer to everything. Education. They say we need more money for education, we need more books, more teachers, more classrooms, more schools, we need more testing for the kids.
You say to one of them: well, you know, we’ve tried all of that and the kids still can’t pass the tests. Ah don’t you worry about that, we’re going to lower the passing grades . And that’s what they do in a lot of these schools, they lower the passing grades, so more kids can pass. More kids pass, the school looks good, everybody is happy, the IQ of the country slips another two or three points and pretty soon all you need to get into college is a f______ pencil.
Got a pencil, get the f___ in there, it’s physics. Then everyone wonders why 17 other countries graduate more scientists than we do. Education! Politicians know that word.
They use it on you. Politicians have traditionally hidden behind three things: the Flag, the Bible and Children. No child left behind! No child left behind! Oh really?
It wasn’t long ago that you were talking about giving kids a head start. Head start? Left behind? Someone’s losing f______ ground here.
-George Carlin