HOORAY Walter! “Everything about socialism is sham and affectation.” - 23.11 Ch23 Evil; Economic Harmonies; Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850
He is one of my favorites as well. The man knows his Constitution and economics and he communicates them very well. I was sorry to hear of his wife’s passing. I remember the story he told of his Christmas present to her one year...golf shoes so that she wouldn’t slip on the ice while washing his car in winter.
Public school is child abuse.
Hmmmmm..... do I sense a common thread here?
Ah, government schools.
The jokes write themselves.
I was subjected to some of these idiots. Good thing my parents made sure we were smarter than them. RTR
The unions & school districts couldn’t demand more taxpayer money for its teachers & schools if the test showed their members were dumber than a sack of rocks & were robbing their students of a quality education.
No child left behind? Most of them SHOULD be left behind because “they’re dumber than hell”.
They'll teach at predominately black schools - and the same horrid 'system of failure' will start over for a new generation...
A 2009 survey of almost 30,000 high school students nationwide found that 30% admitted to stealing from a store within the past year (19 percent who attend religious schools). 23% said they stole from a parent or relative. More than 83% stated they lied to a parent about something significant. 42 confessed that they sometimes lied to save money (up from 395 in 2006). 64 percent had cheated on a test in the past year (up from 60 percent two years earlier) and 38 percent had cheated more than once. More than 36% had used the Internet to plagiarize. 26% also confessed to lying on at least one survey question.
However, 93% agreed, “I am satisfied with my own ethics and character,” and 77% affirmed , “When it comes to doing what is right, I am better than most people I know.” - Josephson Institute http://charactercounts.org/programs/reportcard/
A survey of 6,000 academic psychologists resulted in 10% reporting they had falsified research data; 67 per cent selectively reported studies that “worked”; 35% said they had doubts about the integrity of their own research. - Leslie John, George Loewentstein, and Drazen Prelec in Psychological Science, December 2011
After two years of college, 45 percent of college students hadn’t significantly improved their critical thinking and writing skills; after four years, the proportion was still 36 percent. The study was based on a test taken by 2,400 students at 24 schools. - “Academically Adrift,” by sociologists Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa; http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2012/05/29/lets_drop_the_college-for-everyone_crusade_99690.html
Over 50 percent of students at four-year schools and more than 75 percent at two-year colleges lacked the skills to perform complex literacy tasks (unable to interpret a table about exercise and blood pressure, comprehend arguments of newspaper editorials, compare credit card offers with different interest rates and annual fees, or summarize results of a survey about parental involvement in school). - American Institutes for Research Ben Feller, Associated Press | January 20, 2006
Almost 80% of seniors at 55 of our best colleges and universities earned a D or F grade on a high-school level American history test a 1999 survey showed. - USDE 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey tests
The National Center for Education Statistics reports that only 31% of college graduates can read and understand a complex book. - Walter E. Williams , professor of economics at George Mason University. http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=336612797889002
62% more students are going to college than did in the 1960s”. - Bill Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions at Harvard.
The District of Columbia leads the nation in the proportion of college grads. - http://www.epodunk.com/top10/collegeDiploma/index.html
Extensive surveys by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, conducted in 2006 and 2007 of 14,000 college freshmen and seniors at fifty colleges nationwide, indicated that college education results in little advance in knowledge of American history and institutions, which is already poor among non-college graduates, but an often significant increase in favoring liberal ideology was seen over those who were not college graduates. In addition, those with the highest degrees were the most liberal. Intercollegiate Studies Institute, ‘’The Shaping of the American Mind.’ - http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/2010/major_findings_finding1.html
More: http://peacebyjesus.tripod.com/revealingstatistics.pdf