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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (129264)	1/29/2017 3:25:00 PM
From: bart13	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218673

A school's primary purpose is teaching people how to learn on their own and assess what they need to know, otherwise they're teaching lunkheads who will quickly become obsolete and unemployable. And how many students from our current seriously broken US "educational" system have been taught how to use a dictionary instead of guessing about the meanings of new words or just giving up, even a simple online one...

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (129264)	1/30/2017 1:40:36 AM
From: marcher	1 Recommendation Recommended By ggersh Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218673

sure, learning to learn is not a new and improved idea. it's been in pedagogic circles since the seventies at least. and mostly u.s. outlawed since 2004. but the ieee article indicates recent grads are not able to find work in stem. thus, the myth of needing hb1s for lack of qualified u.s. folks. when i talk with folks, i often hear that performance objectives are designed to remove employees, rather than retain employees. this increases managerial profits. some say immigrant workers are neo-slaves. talk too loud and you're fired! all the way across the border.