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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (130619)	2/2/2013 1:00:33 AM
From: Joe NYC	1 Recommendation Respond to of 149317

You need to reread my post. Hint: it takes a village not money. It is "the village" at play in India and China which interestingly are absent from the chart. 50 to 60 years ago, China and India had no money. The Chinese were opium addicts and the Indians indulged in pot openly. But today we see the miracle of a well educated generation. These two countries did not have TV, the village was dedicated to disseminate and hand down the wisdom of the ages. Very romantic view. I don't know the facts to argue otherwise. Just a gut feeling that this romantic view is far from reality. Your response with all these academic figures and charts misses the point of my post. My charts specifically address your point: "While some think that we need need to leave an ignorant generation with a big surplus, there are others who think that we need to empower the next generation with the skills and knowledge to compete against the other countries." You are implying smarts, results, knowledge correlate with more money, ignorance with less money. My chart shows clearly that there is absolutely no relation. With the incompetent and corrupt system as the US public education, money translates to none of the good stuff. Even people who should know better (mindmeld) fall for this propaganda originating from participants of the US Education Monopoly. It takes a village not money. It is all about attitude not just approach. The village stuff, I am not buying. I actually grew up in a village, very little of what I know came from some village elders disseminating wisdom. Attitude (of students, teachers, parents) I definitely agree with, but approach is important too. The approach is very simple, and it is none of the gibberish you normally hear. The approach is: Parents hassle their childeren, school administrators hassle teachers, teachers hassle students (with some additional hassling between schools, teachers and parents). Until the work gets done and material is learned. A lot of the quality control stuff is hassling people to use approach that will produce a quality result, rather than their own sloppy old way of doing things... We as consumers insist on quality from a gadget that we buy, and a competitive price, but we don't mind being taken to the cleaners by the US public education mafia while our most precious little Johnny as a student is a lemon.