I'm a programmer for a living, and literally all you do is problemsolve, so when people have an issue understanding things like percentages i'm totally taken aback. I had a debate with a friend over mixing 2 cans of beer together, he said it'd make 10% alcohol if he mixed 2 5% beers together. This guy has a DEGREE

Oh my god that’s so funny

I genuinely witch cackled.

I laughed too but internally i was a bit upset. wtf happened to education, my lord.

I mean if he wants to make a homemade black and tan that is one thing.

I’m working on getting my degree atm.

Rhetoric. I take time off to work in the real world and make money so I can go to school because I don’t believe in student loans.

Some of the people, man. Like these young girls that are so alt leftist. Especially from the early childhood and education field. They just don’t make any sense.

And when they get out they’ll be preschool and elementary teachers with debt.

It breaks my heart that they are the teachers of the future when they are so. Bleh.

Side note. Did you ever watch the IT crowd?

Agreed, the upcoming generation of teachers are a total heartbreaker. Despite the fact that they're mostly indoctrinated by leftist ideals, they also are just NOT critical thinkers at all. They're the kinds of teachers that get mad when students point out a mistake they made during teaching and might even punish for it. It's a sad state of affairs.

And no, I have not.

I absolutely agree. It is really sad. It’s a British humor show. Predates big bang theory. It’s… Not the same thing as programming. But it does center around IT.

I don’t want to be a teacher. I actually do want to make money and do something with my life. But I will fall into teaching probably by the time I hit 45.

That is my goal. I don’t wanna seek being a teacher. I want to fall into it when the time is right.

@Skizerz they've really done a disservice to teachers in the US. It's absolutely pathetic how they are treated.

Education in this country is abysmal at best. My daughter is in a Charter school, which is at least a slight improvement over Public School, but I still worry for her education.

There are aspects of potential protection for our education institutions, but those protections could limit diversity of topics and freedom of information. I just wish there was a way to mandate fact only delivery. No propaganda or opinions.

Only in the US do you have to pay a premium for a decent education. In my case I was sent to a catholic school and it was bad comparatively to public school because of lack of resources.

@AlexanderTorri agree 100% cut out the bs indoctrination.

Our higher education systems have always had a romance with ideological systems such as communism/ socialism. I don't know if you've ever heard of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn but he was boo'ed out of Harvard for presenting an anti-communism speech.

The question is how is elimination of indoctrination communicated through legal language without limiting liberties? There is a freedom of press and speech granted by the 1st amendment. Anything contrary to the broad envelope created by the language is automatically unconstitutional. So it seems propaganda is even protected.

Lol figures...

You control the language you control the narrative.

Democrats seem to be predominantly ideologues. When they are challenged the backlash they bring is chaotic.

Such is the case when your ideology is based off of emotion rather than fact.

Conservative ideology is practical and based off of historical understanding. When the status quo is challenged, they panic.

We need a mix... an ideological basis with a strong root in tradition

Ideology wrapped with emotions is child like and representative of immaturity. Realistically, an assessment of emotional response to challenge should be a determining factor in assessing a person’s compatibility for holding a governmental position... lol

The problem is the ideologies wane and wax with the current system... too conservative it shifts liberal too liberal it shifts conservative. There's really never balance. Just shifts in power.

Oh no... definitely don’t want to control ideology, let it be fluid. The problem is when emotions are in the mix.

I agree to that.

I think improvements in education would help a lot of the growing pains associated with that. Gullible, less educated people tend to fall in to the trap of basing their decision off of emotion over fact.

The primary difference that I have noticed between many liberals and conservatives is where the blame is placed. On one’s self, conservative. On others, liberal.

And by education I mean classical education not the indoctrination systems we see today.

I agree

I think what you said falls down to culture.

It’s unfortunately cultural

Monetary status seems to contribute to cultural divide, but socialist ideology is no solution.

You're absolutely right.