As my 17yr. old daughter would say...


Ummm....What-Everrr! :D

Hey, speaking of Higher Education, why don't our schools teach our kids some of the basic stuff they will actually NEED to learn (usually learned the hard way) when they enter the Real World? Stuff like, how to do your income taxes, how to pay your car loans, ON TIME, how to NOT use Credit Cards for EVERYTHING, how to get a mortgage, or, and here's the most important one, should be taught starting in 8th grade, HOW TO RAISE YOUR KIDS! :eek:

My wife is a 2nd grade teacher. The stories she tells me about most of the parents she meets (mostly single moms) is pretty disturbing. Then she ends it with, "And that's the future of America."

I see some pretty scary stuff coming, when the Facebook Generation hits midlife.

In 2006, when I took my twins to Auburn for their orientation, there was a presentation put on for us parents. In it they said 50% of freshmen would flunk out, etc. but the stunning fact to me was when they said, China has more College Honor Students, than America has total college students.

6 years later I'm at the AU Graduation for one of my twins, getting her Masters in Education. I looked at the program booklet with the names of all the kids graduating, in all the different majors. I looked down the list of names under Engineering. Most were Indian and Asian names, only a few did I recognize to be traditional American names.

If you really want to dig deep, pick up the book, "The world is flat, hot and crowded." In it, Thomas Friedman talks at length about how the emerging middle class in China and India is quickly overtaking the USA in all things Science. From alternative energy development, to computer science, to smart grids, etc.

Here's the best part; they come to school in the USA, many for FREE on scholarships. Once they get the free higher education, they return to their own country to start up an engineering company, which then some American company will outsource the American jobs to, for 10 cents on the dollar.

Timbo,

You left an "o" out of "too".

USGov't gave GM a 10billion dollar grant to develop battery technology for the Chevy volt...All 10 of it was spent on R and D in china.

Haven't we had this conversation before?

Every time I go to China, the one thing that strikes me (beside the air pollution) is that Americans would be blown away to see what Walmart built.

WHERE??

:eek::eek:

I thought I left out a W! :D

Journalists
 

Here's the headline:

Report: No flight plan filed in Alaska plane crash"

Here's the NTSB report from whence the article was culled:


On 7 July 2013, about 1120 Alaska daylight time (ADT), a De Haviland DHC-3 Otter, registration N93PC, impacted the ground off the right side of runway 25 after takeoff from Soldotna Airport (PASX), Soldotna, Alaska. The 9 passengers and 1 commercial pilot were fatally injured and the airplane was destroyed by impact forces and postcrash fire. The aircraft was registered to Rediske Family Limited Partnership, and operated under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 135 as an on demand, non-scheduled flight between PASX, and a lodge located in Chinitna Bay, Alaska, approximately 90 miles southwest of Soldotna. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed for the flight.

If you ever need a reminder of how intelligent you think you are, pay close attention to the advertising (print & media) that you encounter when viewing specific venues you are interested in. Regardless of your education level, income bracket, or profession; care to guess the education level these advertisements are written at? Considering these ads deliver huge results, they should humble even the most arrogant of us.

Oh boy, that's gonna get the cat herders up in arms....

Labbats just schooled this thread.

Yep. We are literally teaching and training our replacements and competition. They come here and learn at our best universities/participate in RnD work, then go home and use it all against us.

US flight schools that do the training for asian and other foreign ab initio students fit in there as well. Let those foreign carriers foot the bill for setting up training in their own country, use their own atc services, etc.. Too expensive or too regulated?.....oh well.

I have an ad for Dave Ramsey and another for a Master's of Science Degree. Rather than saying I'm rich and smart I think it means I'm broke and need to study.

Service Industry? Pretty much every one of us is guilty of being in one.

If you don't have a B.S. or better, no complaining.