Posted on 09/24/2024 3:25:20 AM PDT by fwdude
The world needs ditch diggers, too.
I actually would put a lot of stock in a history degree.
The most valuable skill to have is the ability to predict the future. And studying history is the best way to attain that skill.
With the Internet now, people need to start learning how to self-educate. So many great resources out there.
The only thing I had growing up that could compare was the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Heh, good point! My grandson is considering a trade, and there are some very good schools near him. I took welding as part of my gunsmith training.
You are correct. When I was a young cadet, the Air Force was looking for Math, Engineering, and History majors in that order.
My 2023 graduate (mechanical engineering and two courses shy of a masters) worked for two summers and free weekends at the company where he now works full time.
He's automating their manufacturing as well as solving problems other departments can't.
I realize most of his generation's males are twat-knot wearing soybois, but there are exceptions.
Patton was a student of history, it gave him great insight.
Many of them were baby boomers, "educated" at the time that misguided desegregation of schools caused a lowest-common-denominator product of "good enough." We couldn't excel, because that would make the bus-imported students look too dumb.
Also the 60s radicals gave up shooting cops and bombing buildings and became school teachers.
The cell phones are an absolute killer of productivity. I’ve been in the assisted living facility of a loved one and see the young Z’s with their faces stuck in their phones where there are 100’s of things to be done. Not during break time, but while sitting at the nurse’s station.
My liberal arts "core" courses were about as worthless as listening to my ex-mother-in-law fussin'. Fortunately, not one of my math or CS instructors taught any liberalism. In fact, when a student would try to inject liberalism into the discussions, the instructor would call him/her out and say we don't have time for it.
The DNC K-16/20 school system has failed completely.
When I was in high school, if you didn’t have a job, you were a loser.
I had a few of these in middle school in the mid-70's.
We had a hippie art teacher who, if you didn't follow his exact instructions when modeling clay, who smash it with a mallet that he carried around class with him.
He was actually pretty popular.
Came to this country from the Uk 40 years ago.
Did not realize until your post that there was no academic requirement to get into a US university.
Explains a lot......
Different universities have different admissions criteria, and some are very competitive. But there isn’t a national standard, and some schools will take just about anyone.
Big mistake to write off Gen Z.
Yes it is NOT their fault.
The parents and teachers failed them by not having high educational standards and not pushing the kids hard. They passed everyone and gave everyone high grades for mediocre work.
Trump and our side could win them over with a "come to daddy" attitude and good friendly advice, as well as educational reform.
Kids and young people are flexible and pliable. They heal well and can overcome their bad schooling. Even if their high school and college experiences are not very good, there are ways to catch up.
But we are making a stupid decision to incite generational warfare by writing Gens X through Z. We would be playing into the hands of the Commie Rats if we did.
Lastly, Give me a break. I'm a boomer. We had our share of total lazy assed idiots and the spectrum went all the way up to Weathermen IED makers and SDS salaried communists. Druggies everywhere among the boomer class.
Please everyone stop with the I delivered newspapers uphill both way to school and back in a blizzard then worked in a coal mine during elementary school BS.
Remember, for every kid job back then was an adult who created the job, picked up the slack when the kid was not there, and helped the kid along. They definitely did not hire the kid because the kid was more profitable than an adult.
Our parents, however annoyed they were, did not condemn us. They tried to bring us along to sane adulthood. And most eventually came along.
Here's to a Trump initiative to make the above points clear in his lengthy, content-thin rallies.
He's got everyone's attention, now he needs to beef up his content.
Bring along the young, don't write them off or antagonize them. Turn them into conservative MAGA people by helping them.
Unlike here in the US if you can not read or write but are able to get a student loan you can get in.
Or if you can play football.
Today’s ‘WORKERS’ are not yesterday’s “WORKERS”
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