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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SilentZ who wrote (195395)	7/23/2004 10:04:14 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572381

And if you compare me to AS one more time, I'll clock you LOL!!! At least we can agree on THAT subject! :-) You have to put some money into education, clearly. The purpose the education establishment seems to have assumed for decades now is to scare and brainwash people into giving more and more and more- -with the quality of output declining steadily as the funding increased. Had the increased funding ended up in the classroom, it's possible it would have actually made a significant difference. It seems that the significant difference that REALLY got made was in the size of the educational bureaucracy and its intrusiveness into the class room. Maybe, instead of trying to extort more $$$ from taxpayers, teachers should be asking why so much dead and useless wood is needed and why more cannot go to their class rooms. This is no minor matter. The future of this nation in a technological age depends on it. The '90s tech boom was largely fueled by imported brainpower that we could get because we had the money to bribe them to come here. We may not be so lucky much longer. Then we will be forced to fall back on our home grown product and that could be real trouble.