12-08-2008, 01:11 AM
Wags wrote:
[quote=kj]
>>>Too bad we limit the pool of innovators by making higher education inaccessible to such a large part of the population.
Get out of here. Higher ed is available to too many people. To get more people into college, we'd have to invent coloring book classes. kj.
Just in case you forgot to read the rest of my remark I'll copy it again for you:
....must accumulate so big a debt burden that you must devote at least the next ten years after college to getting out from under it. Hard to innovate when your working your ass off to get established.
At least you seem to be acknowledging the failure of our educational system with you coloring book class.
Higher ed is available to too many people.
That may be the most asinine statement I've ever seen you make. Bachelor degrees are the new high school degree equivalent. This is understood nearly everywhere else in the developed world. If you really believe this you are living in the past.
Our higher ed system and the way it works with the industry is second to none. Name one truly innovative product that has come out of Europe or Japan and I name 10 that originated here. Nokia, Siemens, Samsung or Sony could have come out with the iPhone but they couldn't. Now they can't turn out copies fast enough. You want a system that only admits geniuses apparently but it takes a lot more to run the country. I don't want to comment on your use of profanity. It is a sure reflection of how quickly you can exhaust your intellect. You appear indignant that I call you unpatriotic, which I never did, but I can safely call you bitter, ignorant, unappreciative and out of touch with what is happening in the world. You have no trouble writing a 10 page term paper on how awful America is but struggle to write two good words. If I could afford it I would buy you a ticket to the country you fantasize about to live and work. Then come watch you as you kiss the ground when you come back. It is ironic that it should take a naturalized citizen to convince a native born how great he has it here.