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Non-Tech : Kirk's Market Thoughts -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Chip McVickar who wrote (2210)	10/30/2014 3:32:07 PM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26693

Thanks. I'm still pinching myself. The internet will really help classes where kids can take courses to meet their levels and the teachers are there to help. It should also help expand the Jr. College so we can train people to be productive at a reasonable cost. It also means teachers and their plush pensions will have to scramble like the rest of us. The pseudo intellectuals made the same mistake I worry they make with global warming.... that is they don't understand cause and effect. They observe something (ice melting and more carbon in atmosphere) and perhaps make the false assumption that going to a great school is why some of us were successful rather than we worked hard and were born with well above average intelligence. Like the sun putting out more energy to melt ice caps and increase the absorption of carbon by the atmosphere, there is nothing you can really do with below average intelligence to get them the same success as the very intelligent. The smart ones figured out a great scam, get the government to guarantee loans so they could build for profit schools and sell snake oil, take out their money and vanish before the chit hits the fan. The less intelligent kids and parents were left holding a bag (huge loans for a worthless degree) the politicians sold them for votes. Anyway, companies should eventually offer classes on the internet and prospective employees could take those and pass some proficiency tests and skip the whole, corrupt education/government/union debacle.