[BillM]

You know, before 1977 everybody thought that IBM could only get bigger.

If you had suggested that Bill Gates and Steve Jobs could become billionaires in a decade they would have locked you up.

So I guess you are saying that invention is now officially dead. Nobody can get ahead.

You would have been saying this for the last millenium.

[hedgetrimmer]

So I guess you are saying that invention is now officially dead

You are making this up.

I said, there are government programs in school that preselect you for your career. It starts in the 6th or 7th grade. Once they identify your career path, then they educate you toward that goal. It is the antithesis of liberty and individual responsibility. If you had any dealings with any schools nowadays you would know this. The programs are called school-to-work, Goals 2000 and No Child Left behind. They are modeled on soviet style workforce development where corporations tell the schools what kind of skills they want in students, and the schools teach that. They do not give a classic education, where students are taught the necessary thinking and investigative skills to be well educated and to make their own decisions about future careers. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs would have passed through the 'education system' before these programs were put into place.

Pay attention to what is happening in our schools please! The next insult to the system will be when Hispanic radicallist LA mayor Anthony Villagarosa changes the state constitution to let the mayors run the school system and take all authority away from the school board elected by the parents in a local district.

You have to be pretty BLIND to say students today have the same opportunity for an education that gives them free choice these days.