It reminds me of some of the theme in this movie. It was a comedy, but there was a real element of truth behind it...
This is what happens when you have an education system run by morons.
Summed up one account: "Even the least confident students in Singapore outscored the most confident Americans."
And guess what?
Their class sizes are BIGGER than 18-20 students!
You're being mislead there to fill their coffers for a new baby grand piano, heated sidewalks, a new orchestra pit for high schoolers or a new facade for the building to make it look nicer! Anything else but on legitimate EDUCATION.
While people were lining up for the buses, I simply told my wife and son that I'd meet them over there because it was a perfect autumn morning and I wanted to get some fresh air.
Everybody lined up for the buses thought I was nuts as I simply crossed the street and started walking. I beat my family there by about 20 minutes and then on the way back to the auditorium, I beat them there too. Bear in mind that it was a 45 minute to one hour wait to board the buses!
Out of the several thousand people who came to this open house, I was the only one of them that decided to walk to the campus and back from the auditorium. To me, it was nothing at all. But for most others, you might as well have told them you were going to be hiking the Appalachian trail.
The point is, most people today would never think of walking a mile someplace. Maybe that is why we are all so fat.
We can thank the NEA for that mess. Once teachers start teaching, it's almost impossible to get rid of bad ones and kids are paying the price.
The country is doomed. I was shoveling snow at 6 this morning and about a dozen kids came out from the house opposite and commented that I was up late. I must say that they had no idea that they were also in this scene.
We aren't all doomed. What we are doomed to is bigger and bigger cultural, educational, and income gaps. It is happening already. So far it works to conservatives advantage because as a group conservatives work and don't snub entry level work they work themselves up the ladder or they start business. Capitalism in this country still favors harder workers. Liberals have a small number of intellectual elites that think nothing of lying to the masses to keep them down and on welfare just to keep political power. This why the income gap is going to grow and why going to the inner city is like visiting a different country.
It reminds me of some of the theme in this movie. It was a comedy, but there was a real element of truth behind it...
The farther you are to the Left, the more remote you are from real life.
I may not use the theorm, but if it is the first step upon which every other algebraic problem is based, wouldn't a basic understanding be necessary for all of those who work with mathematics and science? Algebra cannot be considered useless.