Do you think officials in American Gov't really want you to be educated?
338069
This is absolutely true in some cases.  The liberal side is very good at it as well.  Public schools are a good example of disinformation centers.  Please read "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx, and then take a good look at how your local schools operate.  Listen to C-span for a bit.  Then you'll understand just how right you are.  Great observation.
134406
I don't think all Americans are like that, but certainly many are.  Our public education system leaves a great deal to be desired, especially the last 30 years or so.  And the media's influence on everyday life in America has become so pervasive that it threatens to completely choke off any possibility of real rational thought.\n\nBut there are those who do think for themselves.  There are many Americans who care deeply about this nation and want it to continue to be a place where the freedoms our ancestors fought and died to earn will still live and breathe.  It's a shame that so many ignorant Americans don't understand what they risk when they just go along with what someone says--especially when it involves trading your freedoms for anything.
1140186
You are correct!  Sorry to say.  Teachers in this country do not want to educate... they want to pass the time and offer knowledge and if it is taken, it makes them seem successful.  And the "No child left behind" is the worst thing that could happen to our country's children. \n\nAccording to the statistics of the world's young people, the children of the USA are down in the lower 1/3 level of educated children.  For some reason in this country, educators are under the assumption that knowledge should be FUN and not WORK.  If it becomes work... it is not presented properly... and memorization is a thing of the past.  Vocabulary is not taught, phonics is not taught, penmanship is not taught, grammar is covered lightly... in the public schools.  If a parent wants their child to get a better education, they must send their child to a expensive private school.  \n\nAre the public schools in the USA lacking... YOU BET!!!  Check out the language and the spelling on this site... Even with the use of computer shorthand language... syntax and grammar, spelling and punctuation is appalling.  \n\nLatin is no longer taught... and it is the basis of most of our words in the English language.  It is also the language of all sciences.  If you know just a little bit of Latin, you have a large advantage in any profession.  \n\nWe need a major overhaul in our public education... but it needs to begin with the concepts of teachers requirement and qualifications.  You posed a good question!
837407
No, being unfit for service doesn't make you unfit to learn. The military may not pay for it though.
637284
Not necessarily.\n\nJust like you wouldn't normally put your educational degrees on your mail.
1126958
I was going to be a smart A$$, but i decided not to, because I don;t know the answer. It looks like you really want to know. Someone with a good understanding of Gov. will give you the correct answer. Later!
529227
Unfortunately, the public school system in america is not taken seriously enough.  Further, the students who attend our public school system (even through college) are continuiously torn down by teachers, principals, and even unknowingly, their parents.  This is done by teaching the youth of america that they should "Go to school and get a good job", when what that's actually doing is teaching a person to wear a slaves collar for the rest of their lives, be it blue or white.  A slave to the economy, to the boss who says when you can have time off, when you cant go to your kids birthday party, and how much money you should be paid per hour.  But then, there are people like me who try to teach, who show our fellow Americans that there is a way to regain their freedom, to life a life not having to give away 40+ hours a week to a job they hate, to a boss who on a bad day can put that persons name on a piece of paper, and end their job on the spot.  This country was founded on Free Enterprise, on farmers and merchants who owned businesses, however small some might have been.  Other countries, Japan for instance, still teach that kind of mentality.  Yes, education is important for it, but a major part of the problem is the angle that American schools take - and that is to teach people to be employees, not to be the employeer.\n\nSo it falls to us who try to help people after they get their flawed education, to try to free them from the system.  Show them a way to take back their lives, to decide themselves how much they will make an hour.  What hours they want to spend working, even if that's none at all.  Far too many people have had the dreamlessness of the failing American Dream drilled into them too hard anymore though, and it's impossible to free a person who prefers the collar.  Ah well.
46450
...because they don't get a good education.
1035669
Because people think that government schools are so great at educating our children.  They are--when you equate "education" with "dumbing down."\n\nI want to homeschool my son, he's 4 1/2 now.  Since he's not talking yet (though he understands when spoken to), my husband wants him to go to preschool, 2.5 hours a day, 4 days a week.  I'm going for it...but I can still teach him at home, because I think it's best.
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America is one of the few industialized countries that does not have free education for its citizens.  Other nations feel, as do I, that education is a fundamental right...not a privilege.  Other nations understand how empowering education is and how, without education, the general populace sinks into despair that often translates in joblessness.  People in extreme poverty, with no way to meet their needs, often resort to non-peaceful methods to express rage when their needs are continuously denied, generation after generation.  And who wants to be around ignorant people?  They do stupid things like support people who support war.
846385
I think it is our job as citizens of the USA to NOT trust any government official fully. We should all question the actions of our politicians and then if we agree, so be it. If we don't, then our voices should be heard.
278203
I certainly agree that educated people, or intellectuals, need to have a broad education across many fields.  More than that, they need to have the strength of mind to be able to process that information, connect it to each other and share it with others.  People who specialize I don't think have the right to be called educated.  Skilled, yes, but not educated.  An educated person should be able to talk about a wide variety of subjects intelligently and be able to at least ask intelligent questions about the rest.
887128
Because as time rolls on, the gov't becomes more leftist/socialist.  As such they feel it is their duty to stick their hands deeper and deeper into the education system.  What happens as a result is inevitable.  More time being spent on politically correct foolishness than basic math science english, etc.  You know, the skills that will actually get someone somewhere in life.  Instead, the focus drifts toward diversity, sensitivity, and other sch nonsense.  Couple that with the fact that telling a kid nothing about the mistakes he/she makes in an effort to not bruise the kid's self esteem, and there becomes less and less room for improvement.\n      Furthermore, the MTA has blocked any attempt at merit based pay, and charter schools.  Another ill which has its roots in socialism.  This elimination of competition kills any motivation to be the best there is at what you do if you're a teacher.  If you get paid as much to scratch yourself all day as you do to work your heart out, what's the sense?  The push is to whip a student through, and collect your check at the end of the week.\n    We aren't as educated because school is influenced by the government, and is doomed to fail, like everything the gov't touches.\n\nEDIT-It's cute that people are forgetting to mention Ted Kennedy's co-authorship and support of the No Child Left Behind Act.  How convenient.
706894
The American education system is basically censored to ensure that you are taught ONLY what mainstream academia thinks you should be learning. This is a nonsense. There are possibly 100+ alternatives in every discipline which are entitled to a legitimate platform in the halls of learning. Topics of value which are being  suppressed. especially regarding History and Physics. American students will eventually become intellectually irrelevant the way the system is currently grooming them. It`s absurd for the education overlords to believe this can continue. A nation of closed minded robots is not the way foreward.
314162
that's like asking government officials to stop giving themselves raises and to stop going on golf outings with taxpayers' money....it will never happen. if everyone were well educated, the government would founder...
310987
It's not a law, so if it bothers you, go ahead and quit if you want. Having a little trouble with authority, are we, or is this just the height of laziness?
855598
In this modern world, a leader need to be educated. especially with so much ministerial dialogues between state leaders on all matters of mutual importance.  Do we expect an uneducated leader to understand the ill-effects of climate change, international trade imbalance, inflation & deflation. Would they understand a virus that recently infect my computer?  \nMoreover, there are more educated people today than yesterdays where education were confined mostly to monarchs and their families.