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To: dvdw© who wrote (61084)2/13/2010 9:49:58 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 217945
 
Minds are developed. One is not born knowing how to think. One is born knowing "unconscience concepts", like what food is, and what things may be dangerous, but that is different from thinking and learning reason.

Look at recent history. Three cultures that make educating their children job one, also do the best economically: Jews, Germans and Japanese.

We fire bombed Germany and and Japan back into the stone ages during WWII. 20 years later they were the number 2 and 3 economies in the world. The Jews turned a desert into a garden of Edan and had the atomic bomb in no time.

We all know how successful the Jews are and they educate everyone. Eduation is mandatory in their culture and the Japanese and the Germans. The Danes and Swedes provide free education all the way to the PHD level. The Danes lead everyone in converting from a carbon based society to an electric society.

Scientific American had a great article last year called "The expert mind" whereby they studied chess players. They found it takes 10 years to develop an expert mind, longer than to train a brain surgeon.

They believe the mind during this period builds a software package it uses to solve problems. Science has known for a long time that those who take the time to get a good education do better in life in every aspect than those who do not.

Some cultures understand this concept cold and some not so much. The middle east cultures generally prefer their myths to general education.

>>some help;
You cant know what is in the heads of the unwashed masses, those subjected to debilitating performance of an education establishment whose performance is predicted by outmoded structures and adherence to failed ideology.

dumb and dumber is the plan....its from that structure that control is sustained....keep the unwashed dumber than the mouthpieces and then you have no competition.

Degrees of freedom are what you could use to contemplate better outcomes, but me thinks you have not learned about those means to your mental ends.



To: dvdw© who wrote (61084)2/14/2010 8:54:44 AM
From: elmatador  Respond to of 217945
 
No falling behind. Rest of the world catching up fast. Emerging markest doing now what the Europeans, Americans and Japanese did long time ago: educating the masses.

Now with a much biggger impact since the emerging markets count with: Cheap telecommunictions, Internet, mobile phones, cheap devices.

All this point for a catch up in a matter of few years.

The young poor guy can buy cheap devices and grow up toying with it. That will make easier for him to use high technology that is point and click.

The Germans and the Japanese had to start bending metal.



To: dvdw© who wrote (61084)2/14/2010 5:10:43 PM
From: energyplay  Respond to of 217945
 
This graph only goes back to 1972. The big problems with this graph - the people taking the SAT have changed with expanding opportunity and changing demographics, test preparation course really work well and are now being used by a wide segment of the SAT test takers.

en.wikipedia.org

The SAT does even get close to a real answer that I would invest money in.