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Politics : President Barack Obama
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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (73310)5/1/2010 4:22:34 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) of 149317
 
>>believe that the foundation of a well educated person is laid in the schools. The teachers here in general are not qualified to teach or else you would not have a teacher with a history major teaching math etc. etc.>>

I never found that to be true. By and large most of my teachers were just fine. I think that is a red herring. I had idiot teachers, good solid average teachers and a few geniuses.

Man I spent a lot of my life in school and think I know the score. What I saw was that by and large if society makes enough classes available people will generally go. A lot of them do not figure it out until their 20's which is why comunity colleges are so important. Second chance.

Kids I went to school with can compete against the worlds intellectuals. Teachers and kids are plenty smart enough. The 60's was the most intellectual period in the history of mankind outside of ancient Greece.

What we learned then, will be integral to our success going forward. though few think of that. John Stewart teaching the world the concepet of zen is a big deal.

No other country or society has ever surpassed the pure intellectual power of the 60's in the US. Becasue we have a large population of diverse culture and intellectual freedom.

But yes we have work to do and Obama seems all over it to me. No one knows more than Obama and his wife the importance of education.
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