"Society gets what it pays for, and our schools suck in this country."
My impression after 10 years of experience is that
the US society follows some (unwritten?) doctrine.
For a society to be stable, it needs a whole
spectrum of people - dish cleaners, car mechanics,
waiters, clerks, windows programmers, insurance
agents, chain sellers of lose-weight product, soldiers,
taxi drivers, brokers, computer assemblers, lawyers.
Many, many of them. In contrast, the society needs
only relatively few leading professors, researchers,
microprocessor architects, etc.
By sustaining the low level of public education,
the U.S. society provides a steady supply for ordinary
professions, with relatively low expectations for
the quality of life. Most people are happy, the society
is stable. |
