Amusing, but Not Funny...(Herbert on the education legacy....

[Aviation Pro]

....of C student Preznit Fuckstick, college drop out (but later graduated from a safety school) Shitstain Shoots-Guy-In-Face, near the bottom of the class at the Naval Academy Senator Angry Old Prick, and five schools in six years to get a third tier degree Sarah Pornstar.

Link here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/opinion/14herbert.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print

By BOB HERBERT

Sara Rimer of The Times wrote an article last week that gave us a startling glimpse of just how mindless and self-destructive the U.S. is becoming.

Consider the lead paragraph:

“The United States is failing to develop the math skills of both girls and boys, especially among those who could excel at the highest levels, a new study asserts, and girls who do succeed in the field are almost all immigrants or the daughters of immigrants from countries where mathematics is more highly valued.”

The idea that the U.S. won’t even properly develop the skills of young people who could perform at the highest intellectual levels is breathtaking — breathtakingly stupid, that is.

The authors of the study, published in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, concluded that American culture does not value talent in math very highly. I suppose we’re busy with other things, like text-messaging while jay-walking. The math thing is seen as something for Asians and nerds.