We are flatlined because most people are preordained for stupidity.
Take me for instance. I left High School, in the 10th grade, after being asked to write one more paper about something I had done in past grades.
In fact, in the 9th grade, I turned in a paper I had written in the 3rd grade, for which I had received an A+, at that time. I received an A and was a little miffed at the teachers explanation as to why I didn’t get the double credit.
But I was getting irritated with school and thought he was an idiot.
In the 8th grade I turned in a paper discussing the causes of the civil war and resolution of civil rights up and until the 1964 decision.
Got into an argument with the teacher about Dred Scott and a few other things, my Mom dropped me off the next day with Encyclopedias, books and some magazine which I had used for research. (I had done a short essay in the 5th grade on the same subject and went all out with this paper including timelines, on a graph about 3 feet long. My dad worked at Burroughs so we always plenty of paper)
This moron didn’t even understand Dred Scott, 13th or 14th amendment, in general, much less in context.
So comes the 10th grade and I don’t remember the teacher but I turned in the same paper. I could that as the teacher from 3 years earlier hadn’t put any idiotic remarks on it.
Got an A and rave reviews about how well it had been research and Blah, Blah.
I was pissed that I had been asked to the same work as before and didn’t feel I was learning.
I mean, if I could turn in work from years earlier and receive high marks.... Again, why am I wasting my time here?
I had only one problem in school and couldn’t make heads or tails of Algebra. Well, sort of.
Seems I could use the formulas that were actually useful in real life, like FIFO and some others but had no use for the theory part.
I asked my teacher, in mechanical drafting, what my problem seemed to be.
He said some people will only use what is practical and discard the rest. He didn’t have a problem with my inability as I was using some of the formulas in drafting.
I quit high school two months later, thinking what a bunch of idiots.
So now it comes years later and I find myself teaching guys with pedigrees how to write letters and proposals. Dumber than hell people and I have no idea how they go through college.
Then again, that is like most people in college. Just dumb.
Why? Social progression. Not important that you learn but the emphasis is on pushing you to the next class and graduating you. Dumb or not and in most cases ... dumb.
An extraordinary reply.
I don’t recall having read anything quite like it
on FR.
Interesting. I remember my disgust with my idiot 9th grade biology teacher, who was more interested in his coaching assignment than in biology. I suspected that he didn't read what we turned in, so I started putting nursery rhymes in the middle of my assignments to see if he'd notice. He never did. I continued to do my work, since I liked biology, but I knew at that point that he was just a babysitter. My kids have had quite a few such dolts as "teachers" over the years. The most damaging ones are math teachers who don't teach.
I'm glad that our sons want to study engineering, since they have a hope of learning useful skills and avoiding some of the liberal claptrap. The pendulum can't swing back soon enough on this dumbed-down garbage.