Should We Be Scared?

[boykinlp]

After watching the video below, I think the answer is YES! What are our young folks learning in school? I must admit that the interviewer cracks me up with his comments!
Larry

[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufmcubp2szg[/ame]

 

[Breakaway500]

Mark Dice has been doing interviews like this for many years. It is really disappointing.The worst part is they think their ignorance is funny

 

[pharmer]

I taught Math for the last 10 years. 3x3x3 would be impossible to answer without "phone assistance." 3x3 would baffle half a;though some are resourceful enough to use their "digital calculators" (since the product is less than 10, the fingers will "hold" 3 sets of 3). Joe

 

[Grayfox]

The dumbing down of America has been going on for decades. High school graduates can barely read or write. Can't do basic math. Don't even get me started on not knowing history.
Our schools are little more than liberal indoctrination centers.

 

[Bekeart]

Will Rogers spoke of Ignorance ...

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Will Rogers

Ignorance lies not in the things you don't know, but in the things you know that ain't so.
Will Rogers

Bekeart

 

[OLDSTER]

On the positive side, the young engineers being recruited right out of school are very bright and quite capable. The only problem is a shortage of them. Too many kids are taking the easy route in college.

 

[StrawHat]

Perhaps we should model education after the way it is done in Amish schools. One room schoolhouse. Elder students help younger ones and you are done in eighth grade. After eighth, get a job and help pay for your upbringing.

I watch the Amish run a long column of numbers in their heads faster than most can use a calculator.

It may be a simpler culture but certainly not an inferior one.

Kevin

 

[vt_shooter]

But what percent of them are that stupid? 'Can't be more than 1% (I hope)

 

[BSA1]

Perhaps we should model education after the way it is done in Amish schools. One room schoolhouse. Elder students help younger ones and you are done in eighth grade. After eighth, get a job and help pay for your upbringing.

I watch the Amish run a long column of numbers in their heads faster than most can use a calculator.

It may be a simpler culture but certainly not an inferior one.

Kevin

It is a simpler culture only made possible by a modern, industrialized society.

 

[moosedog]

Life is hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.

 

[robvious]

My perspective on the younger generation is based on my son's friends... he was an Eagle Scout attended a Jesuit college prep high school and is in his final semester of graduate school studying Aero Space Engineering... so most of his friends have been great, patriotic, hard working and kind. Some are engineers, accountants, welders, respiratory therapists, security guards, retail and students. Just remember, they will only show the ridiculous people.. interviewing knowledgeable people won't be entertaining. Is the current state of our educational system worrisome, oh yes, but the key word is "our"... volunteer with kids if you want it to be different.. youth groups of all kinds are looking for help... do something or do nothing, your choice.

 

[yeti]

Oh my. That isn't good at all.

 

[SMSgt]

Kids will be as dumb as they need to be to make it into a video by some guy on the street. However . . . during my short tenure in retail in the '90s, I was amazed at the overwhelming number of teens and young adults who could not figure out how much a 15% discount was--something my third-grade daughter easily could.

 

[Grayfox]

Too many kids are taking the easy route in college.

They got easy liberal arts degrees and can't find a job in that field. These are the ones drowning in student debt and crying about it.

 

[boykinlp]

Before I posted this, I watched a lot of videos on this. I had to look at so many because most of the others were full of cuss words! On one, the kids couldn't answer the basic history or geography questions, but they could name the 5 Kardashian sisters. Go figure.
Larry

 

[Puller]

I'd like to see him go out to the midway at a county fair in middle America and ask those young people the same questions. I'm betting the results would be quite different.

 

[BigBoy99]

I worked in DC before I retired. The National Geographic Society had it headquarters in DC and on Earth Day they would take a world map and ask people on the street to show on the map, where they were. Only one or two of the older people could fund Washington, DC on the world map. Most of the younger people asked couldn't even show which continent we lived! After a while the National Geographic Society stopped taking the map out on the street because so many people couldn't read a map and couldn't find where they lived.

 

[s&wchad]

Just remember, they will only show the ridiculous people.. interviewing knowledgeable people won't be entertaining.

/\/\/\ This...

All is not lost! The Mrs. and I have lived on the same cul-de-sac for 29 years and watched 12 children from 7 different families grow up. When they were little, we played stickball in the street, shot hoops and hit waffle golf balls. I'd work on their bikes when they had problems and some would come over in the evenings and hang out with us on the front porch. I suspect it had more to do with the supply of popsicles we kept in the freezer and not our stimulating conversation! We've been blessed with good neighbors.

Only one of the children was a problem and that family moved out of the neighborhood after a few years (yeah!). All the other kids graduated from or are currently attending college and never caused any trouble. One is studying civil engineering, one is working on her MBA and another is taking marine biology on a full scholarship for academics and soccer.

 

[dmn57]

There have always been, um, 'less informed', kids around, but most weren't so anxious to confirm their shortcomings to the general public. Social media and the overwhelming desire to be noticed has left many shameless these days. Hopefully the bright kids far outnumber those that seem to find glee in their ignorance.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Way back when the Internet was beginning to come on strong, I optimistically thought it would increase the flow of knowledge and information to the masses.
Wrong again!
Turns out it's more like pooling ignorance!