Maybe some of the reason is that other's are like me....and find it difficult to understand what you are talking about.
What is a gov't education? As opposed to what?? Self education? Private education?
Our educational system does seem to be unable to decide whether it should be science based or opinion based. But when I look at the education of our whole country it does appear to be balanced between the two.
I'm going to reply to your comments, with all due respect.
First, tell me 1 thing the govt does well.
Govt education is what people call public education. Again, the worst in the first world. It's broke. That horse left the barn 50 years ago. How many senators send their kids to govt schools? I've been all over the world, a 16 old Italian kid knows more american history than virtually any american i know. What do they say about doing the same thing and expecting different results?
As far as immigrants go. After about 1 month, i told most my subs, Id prefer their latino crews. Seems many of the white guys show up drunk, hung over, cranked up on meth, pissed off and/or lazy. Not all, please, but too many! The latinos that work here are generally on time, work hard, seem happy, don't whine and the workmanship is excellent, imho. They come here to do the jobs that your and my kids won't do. Their children are often well well educated and they seem to appreciate the opportunities our country offers. 2 of my subs told me without immigrants they would be outta business. On the other end there is a special immigration exemption for certain skills. What they mean is someone with an education. I worked in hi hi hi tech and the majority of the real doers were immigrants on those special visas. A Friend teaches nothing but post grad IT stuff. He hates it but says 99% of the students in his classes are immigrants.
I'm real close to being an immigrant, my grandfather worked on the Titanic and I was raised in a scotch irish household. What i see is after the first few generations, we all become Americans.
IMHO I think in too many cases, we are lacking the old american mid west work ethic. Way too many people trying to get over. That happens everywhere, it's just we are so rich we get away with it more than others. Hard to quantify and certainly not universal. Ask the kid growing up on the south side of chicago how it's working for him. As far as better than most, just a feeling but, in many of the places i've been, people don't seem as hateful as here.
As far as apple, i despise them on 3 levels. 1, my ipod broke 20 years ago and they treated me like poop. 2 I have friends in the business who do business with them, bunch of good stories there. I was in the send it to china business, apple is right at the top of that list. 3. They have boo koo bucks sitting off shore to avoid taxes. I don't blame them, i blame the govt. That doesn't mean I have to like it! Oh yea, 4, their cloud. My i phone and i pad are inches from each other and both bluetooth capable but for them to share contacts etc, you gotta run it thru the cloud. Big brother is watching.
As far as China goes, most everybody objects to someone. Of course it's not the people, it's the culture. Oh yea, and that virus thing that they knowing spread all over the world. Again, i don't blame china for taking advantage but i don't have to like it.
As far as caring, i care too much. The old saying about changing what you can and not worrying about what you can't seems to apply.
Interesting, 2 people can look at the same picture and see 2 different things. In the end it's just talk.
