America the Baffled: One in Four Americans... - Page 5

Trip · 07-04-2011, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Avatard

Isolationism in today's global market economy. How's that working out?

Hmmm. That bad, huh?

Education can fix that, you know.

And how is the average American and Mexican going to be playing in the global market? Usually that would be the educated Americans that do learn foreign languages that deal with other countries. If they don't learn the country's language they are dealing with, that is stupid.

The maintenance personnel of a manufacturing plant isn't going to need to know foreign languages to do their job. The blue collars that will be selling the product to foreign countries might want to learn some though.

Avatard · 07-04-2011, 09:29 PM

You're right. Education is a waste. Let's keep everyone ignorant.

Trip · 07-04-2011, 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Avatard

You're right. Education is a waste. Let's keep everyone ignorant.

For some people it most definitely is a waste. We need grunts. This whole idea of sending people to college to drink and party and get degrees in underwater basket weaving or some other bullshit is a waste of resources. Some people never should step foot in higher education. They don't need to know Portuguese or that's what's spoken in Brazil. They just need to know how to make a certain widget.

Avatard · 07-04-2011, 09:47 PM

Who decides who's a worker drone, not worthy of education, Trip?

Trip · 07-04-2011, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Avatard

Who decides who's a worker drone, not worthy of education, Trip?

That's the great part, YOU do. Perform in primary education.

Weed em out in high school. Stricter entrance guidelines in college. Want to prove you belong in college, go to a tech school or CC. Earn your way in. If you want to dick off, off to the factory with you.

Trip · 07-04-2011, 10:01 PM

A lot of our colleges are turning into a joke. We have to up entrance fees, so we can make sure Douchebag Tom can take Ancient Asian Art Studies and then wind up working in his local Best Buy as an assistant manager. If he is lucky then he can find a way to hang around at college and get a doctorate in something equally as worthless and train another generation in some piece of shit subject which further handicaps the American population against foreigners coming into our country and getting high level engineering/science degrees worth a damn at our schools and going back home and advancing their country while we get stuck with Dr. Douchebag Tom.

Sorry, we need to weed out programs and make college affordable and educate our leaders with classes that are actually worth a damn.

101lifts2 · 07-05-2011, 02:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Trip

....Sorry, we need to weed out programs and make college affordable and educate our leaders with classes that are actually worth a damn.

You and I are both electircal engineers. I could ask you how to do a Fourier transform and you wouldn't remember in the least because you do not use it regularly. However, doing these and many other complex computations has enabled you to build up analytic and thinking skills.

College's main focus is to teach yourself to think and analyze. Remembering book knowledge is good for a test, but it doesn't separate you from the other non-college educated people.

racedoll · 07-05-2011, 07:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Trip

The maintenance personnel of a manufacturing plant isn't going to need to know foreign languages to do their job. The blue collars that will be selling the product to foreign countries might want to learn some though.

In most cases I agree. However, if you are maintenance at the company I work for, German would be very useful. We have 6 presses that are German so when they need serious work, we have to get people from the manufacturer in to do it. Although the guys that come in speak English, it would make communication much easier if our guys new their language.

tommymac · 07-05-2011, 07:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Trip

A lot of our colleges are turning into a joke. We have to up entrance fees, so we can make sure Douchebag Tom can take Ancient Asian Art Studies and then wind up working in his local Best Buy as an assistant manager. If he is lucky then he can find a way to hang around at college and get a doctorate in something equally as worthless and train another generation in some piece of shit subject which further handicaps the American population against foreigners coming into our country and getting high level engineering/science degrees worth a damn at our schools and going back home and advancing their country while we get stuck with Dr. Douchebag Tom.

Sorry, we need to weed out programs and make college affordable and educate our leaders with classes that are actually worth a damn.

WTF did I do to get dragged into this

Particle Man · 07-05-2011, 07:58 AM

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WTF did I do to get dragged into this

All that nasty cooter talk

07-04-2011, 09:29 PM	#2
Avatard Crotch Rocket Curmudgeon Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Here to integrity Moto: Li'l red baby Ninja Posts: 7,482	You're right. Education is a waste. Let's keep everyone ignorant. __________________ Insert free thought here.

07-04-2011, 09:47 PM	#4
Avatard Crotch Rocket Curmudgeon Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Here to integrity Moto: Li'l red baby Ninja Posts: 7,482	Who decides who's a worker drone, not worthy of education, Trip? __________________ Insert free thought here.