Math and Science....

[steve-potocin.livejournal.com]

One of our education system's biggest problems is that there is not enough emphasis on the Maths and Sciences.....America is falling behind in the world because our students are not gaining the necessary knowledge in these fields....

Too much emphasis on useless book learnin and abstruse theories and nto enough on PRACTICAL skills....students shoudl learn about the greatness of the Capitalist system, why Marxism is evil and Socialism doesn't work, how to invest in the stock market, balance their finances...and so on....

Arts and Humanities programs should be defunded since many teachers in those fields only fill students minds with revisionist histories and make them hate their country.....in addition,the skills learned in those fields are not as important as those of MATH and SCIENCE,which are the wave of the future....

Most academics can't even fix a doorknob....and yet they want to advocate for socialism....most of the socialists who support Obama have never ran a business....never done payroll,none of it...

Comments

[dv8nation.livejournal.com]

Remeber, kids, if it don't keep the cash flowin it ain't worth knowin'!

Now get out your copies of "The Fountainhead."

[op-tech-glitch.livejournal.com]

One of our education system's biggest problems is

students shoudl learn

most of the socialists who support Obama have never ran

Ah Steve-O, how we missed ya.

[jerseycajun.livejournal.com]

You continue to give credence to the idea that you're the result of an auto-meme program. Not one word of any of this has that ring to it that tells me an authentic person writes these posts.

I swear it's either that or you're actually some kind of bored progressive trying to play the role of an over-the-top conservative for yuks on slow nights.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Your spelling sucks hairy donkey testicles; and you have the nerve to whine about colleges?

[silver-chipmunk.livejournal.com]

The problem with the educational system is that it doesn't spend enough time on history. It's pathetic what kids don't learn about history. Like the real results of unbridled capitalism.

BTW, I'm a wooly liberal librarian, and I can fix a doorknob just fine, thank you. And rewire a lamp, replace a phone jack, and all sorts of useful things. Many of them I learned by reading books.

[root-fu.livejournal.com]

Lead the way, steve_potocin!

Write a nice post for us about math and science! Show us what we've been missing!

[allhatnocattle.livejournal.com]

Courses in doing taxes are overdue

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

Hah.

Pure mathematics is among the least useful disciplines. Pure mathematics has no necessary relation to reality -- to anything except itself. It's nearly the definition of "book learning", or "abstruce theories".

Arts and humanities programs at least teach people how to communicate.

Hate to break it to you...

[mrsilence.livejournal.com]

...but the more highly educated a person is in Mathematics and Science, the more likely that they are to be a liberal.

See, if you had taken the time to learn some non-practical things in your life, you might already know that.

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

The reason the US education system is comparable with Mexico is largely because the dumbing down teaching "practical skills" you advocate. But then, your proclivity to spout nonsense solutions to imaginary problems based on fallible ideas suggests that you are exemplary of the problems in the education system; you have an opinion, and if you say it loudest it makes you most right.

[new-wave-witch.livejournal.com]

Vocation over intellect. Yeah, that sounds like a plan rooted in success.

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

I know maffs right. And I'm a bloody pinko commie. Go fig.
Btw my spell-checker just went asplode.

[ddstory.livejournal.com]

I love it when you pwn yourself like that.

[tridus.livejournal.com]

Oh boy, it's this guy again.

[headhouse.livejournal.com]

Why is it one priority vs the other? Teach them both. A fundamental understanding of the sciences can easily intertwine with a deep appreciation of (or production of) creativity.

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

[jellomarx.livejournal.com]

There is more to life then making a living. Learning about Shakespeare, Mozart, Picasso helps a young mind learn how to think. Not be robotic.

[girlspell.livejournal.com]

I work at a university. Math and science majors are a minority here. And have been for a long time. All natural sciences are. So I don't think they are they are the wave of the future. They are being replaced by computer science and computer engineering. New technology in the US and around the world are the wave and will be for a long time. Kids have a toy in front of them (the computer and variations of it) and want future jobs to play with it. Humanities are a minority too. Kids aren't stupid. They want jobs when they walk out the door.

[eracerhead.livejournal.com]

I suppose many people completely missed the "satire" tag in your post.

[pmax3.livejournal.com]

While everything that people have said above is true, and arts education is very important for understanding advanced science and maths, and is fulfilling on its own, it is not the least bit isolated from money making enterprises. For example the B-school I study in has an entire course called Indian Philosophy for Leadership Excellence.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

In lieu of the brutal and ugly statement I was going to say, I'm just going to say this-Go on worshiping at the altar of Houston Stuart Chamberlain, you Hitler-lover.

[kinvore.livejournal.com]

You, sir, are the poster child of the failure of our educational system, so it's fitting that you post this. Tell you what, maybe we'd do a better job of teaching science if wingnuts would stop trying to teach their religion as science.

[kardashev.livejournal.com]