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To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (494226)	7/9/2022 9:48:37 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 542125

That is true, but most people are not interested until they learn, and as they learn they become more and more interested as it makes sense to them.. Sort of like learning a language, if you don't know anything it is boring, but if you can learn a bit it becomes less boring. I often use the example of two people in a prison library in china. All the books are written in Mandarin. If one cannot read Mandarin they will be bored, but if they can read they wont Guys talk about sports non stop because the learn about it. Once people get educated they become more interested in it and sometimes you need to spoon feed them i.e why there are requirements. I have seen people fight education a lot, especially with my Jewish friends and Asian friends, so much is expected of them. But I noticed the all live their lives by the stuff they learned. . < Many (most) people just don't want to learn about Bertrand Russell (also a mathematics and philosopher hero to me in my college years, BTW.)

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (494226)	7/10/2022 2:03:53 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542125

Dr. John W. Miller, head of the study of literate cities, “This isn’t a study about whether or not people can read, it’s about whether they do read.” - time.com Cities including Stockton, Fresno and Bakersfield received low scores due to a very low percentage of the population subscribing to a daily newspaper, the cities have very few physical bookstores, and weak lending libraries. Being agricultural and manufacturing cities, they all have among the lowest percentage of "professional jobs" which the study thus ranks as lower in being literate, based on the assumption that people in professional jobs read more. The original wooden home (Heim) of early German immigrant farmer Ana, which gave the place its name, Anaheim

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (494226)	7/10/2022 10:47:07 AM
From: kidl	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542125

Some people can quote Shakespeare on a stage, others can take apart a diesel engine and put it back together. (NOT ME!) Some people are great chefs, they are bored with liberal arts or science. Some folks are good at plumbing or carpentry. There must be multiple paths other than sending everyone to four, six or eight year colleges. The shortage of skilled tradespeople is a huge problem in North America: The Skilled Trades Labor Shortage of 2022 (industrialskilledtrades.com) NA wants to bring factories / production back. Not gonna work without a skilled labour force. Lets begin with getting inner city people through high school. That's only part of the problem. The bigger challenge is to improve the quality of high school education.