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Originally Posted by jayeff
The costs seem even more ludicrous when you consider that these colleges and universities are part of such a poor education system. According to the New York Times last December, US workers are now so ignorant and lacking in basic skills that employers are spending over $30 billion a year on remedial education. Not training, remedial education. We now rank 49th in the world in literacy and 28th out of 40 countries in mathematical literacy.
And for the first time in 30 years, last year fewer foreign students enrolled in US schools and colleges. Meanwhile overseas enrollment increased in Europe and even in China of all places.
It is also a factor that college students are spending a considerable amount of time learning the basics needed to ensure they can cope with the college courses proper. If these were taught in high school, as they are in most other developed countries, the time spent at college could easily be reduced by 25%.
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A-FREAKIN-MEN Jayeff!!!
That's EXACTLY what I'm talking about. Dead on balls accurate there buddy boy!
I ended up spending like five fucking years back in the 90's training guys who had just gotten out of college!!! Of course they all went on to become millionaires in cartoons/comics/animation but they were good kids then.
It was astounding how little they were prepared for the workforce and their literacy levels were damn near non existant. The scriptwriters loved it when I came along because I could understand what the fuck they were writing!
Survival skills as well. I can see how re-training in the fundamentals is eating up employer's time and resources. Nowadays though it's like the companies are looking to hire the dishonest dumb guy to cover their bullshit though so they end up creating versatile hoodlums.
The U.S. is not about educating, it's about conditioning for obedience. It's done with chemicals and threats and media brainwashing. Just look at the shit you see we call television shows. There's better acting and content on a porn site for cryin' out loud.
