Posted on 10/29/2016 5:56:18 AM PDT by detective
Do you wonder why Sen. Bernie Sanders and his ideas are so popular among American college students? The answer is that they, like so many other young people who think they know it all, are really uninformed and ignorant. You say, “Williams, how dare you say that?! We’ve mortgaged our home to send our children to college.”
Let’s start with the 2006 geographic literacy survey of youngsters between 18 and 24 years of age by National Geographic and Roper Public Affairs.
Less than half could identify New York and Ohio on a U.S. map. Sixty percent could not find Iraq or Saudi Arabia on a map of the Middle East, and three-quarters could not find Iran or Israel. In fact, 44 percent could not locate even one of those four countries. Youngsters who had taken a geography class didn’t fare much better.
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They live in a bubble with an iPone as the only link to the world and instead of using it for that they use it to play games.
They are ignorant and have been allowed to like it that way and see nothing at all wrong about it.
For the most part, responsibility is absent in them.
——Clueless. Most young guys cannot change a tire on their car, chop wood, start a fire and or cook over it. Gather water, filter it, sanitize it.——
Add to that read a map, how to orient themselves by the sun, use a compass, wrestle a bear....Oh’ Wait...
Disappointing for a child to turn out that way isn’t it? You never know you’ve failed until it is too late with children.
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I can tell you from having taught in college classrooms that it is entirely accurate. Williams, himself, is in the classroom everyday. Unlike many professors, he enjoys teaching and makes a point to teach at least one lower or entry level course every semester. He isn’t in some think tank doing his own thing. He speaks from authority on this matter.
I did the same growing up and I don’t recall much prompting by my parents to do it though they did gulp hard and bought the World Books and paid them out and bought the year book for updates for almost 40 years.
I read them all from start to finish over the years. Usually on Sunday afternoon after Church since we didn’t do work on the farm on Sunday.
I poured over maps and have all my life to find things in far away places that I may never see otherwise.
Curiosity and Discovery, I can’t imagine life without them.
Your daughter will come around. I wavered too, mostly before going to college. College pretty well confirmed that the liberal agenda was nuts and self serving and brought me back.
Use a ruler? Astounding.
I thought about going back to school but I dont’ think I could stand it. It has been hard enough working around a bunch of young engineers. Smart kids but most are just not very interesting. They don’t do anything but play games, golf, go to sports events and such. Just mostly dullards.
My daughter’’s boyfriend posted an article about how poor people can’t get out of poverty even if they go to college and get an education.
I reminded her that was not true for her dad or her grandparents.
My husband came from a broken home, was kicked out at 17, and then proceeded to work and go to community college and then transferred to a 4 year college and hot his computer science degree. He’s done very, very well since then. Includine sending our kids to private school.
My dad got his engineering degree thanks to the GI Bill. He did not have the obstacles my husband had. However he and my mom made sacrifices. They moved to Venezuela for around 8 years to get started in Oil and Gas. I can’t even imagine doing that without phones and internet. My dad was also very, very successful.
What’s interesting is that my 84 year old mom has enough money, but she is still working. She has an antique shop.
I've never allowed myself the luxury of saying "I don't know."
I have also been blessed with a pretty good memory, and I thank God every day for the wonders He reveals to those who just ask.
Funny thing is that she has a very solid grasp of most of Life. Only where the group think of her friends touches politics does she fail to think.
Young people are ignorant? The old ones are too. I ran into a 61 year old, seemingly intelligent man last week. He voted for Bernie...he is going to vote for Hillary because he ‘wants to be free’ and maintain the 2nd amendment.
Ignorance reins.
-——My daughter’’s boyfriend posted an article about how poor people can’t get out of poverty even if they go to college and get an education.——
I hear the same things from my young adults in my extended families...
That’s because they have no concept of the four letter word called “work” or the word “patience”
Most young people have a serious mental disease called “entitlement” syndrome, where they think because they were born they are entitled to have the things we adults worked hard for with patience to acquire over our lifetimes...
They are in for one rude awakening....
I am told that many of us, and more so today than ever, are raised by our peer group. I never had a peer group and so I missed that part. I started going to work with my Dad about the time I could walk and hardly ever missed a day up until the time I went to school. After that and until I started working for real at 13 I hardly ever missed a day at work in the summer either. My “peer” group was a bunch of WWII vets. I did not realize how this shaped me until I got older. I just took it for granted that everyone grew up like I did and they didn’t.
Perfect summation of our current condition with our young people, as a result of cultural Marxist education.
Don’t feel bad we have 2 nieces and a DIL trapped in the Hive.
We must be in the same age cohort.
Parents taught us to read before first grade. The subscription Funk & Wagnells was the vehicle they provide us, along with the F&W annual Almanac, your basic world events of the year with photos. That provided a considered and factual presentation beyond the When movie news reels.
Dad’s Popular Science, Popular Mechanics exposed me to tools, their use and explained how things worked.
The National Geographic provided glorious folding maps and views of the world and its people beyond our little corner. When Dad passed we had almost 50 years of Nat’l. Geo to contend with. Offers to local libraries were met with a smirk and and a snort
Or, as Michael Savage says, from the penthouse to the outhouse in three generations. Oh!
Well, they’re engineers...
Lots and lots of blame to go around, complacent parents sending their barely behaving progeny to government schools controlled by unionized leftists with a dream of a kum-ba-ya society voting progressive now and forever! In all practicality, even in the ‘good old days’, there was bias, prejudice and disruption but it was more local and not fostered by a national diktat out of Washington!
More worrisome to me is the essential 10% that are the ‘yeast’ of the next generation. Even with all of these disadvantages, they can use the resources of the internet to learn in spite of the idiocracy of the schools! However, once they hit the College/University level, they find an even greater academia morass of socialism, anti-western culture, anti-individualism than previous generations dreamed possible. Yet, for advancement and empowerment to lead the future, they have to go through this swamp and not succumb to it!
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