Education in America

 

I have been in some form of education for over 40 years...  starting back in 1974 when I worked for a non-profit with a 501 (c) (3) status with the Federal Government as an educational institution.  And...  in 2015 I retired after teaching at a local university for 3 years.  After I had officially retired with the Social Security Administration, I still taught over 30 evening classes for another local university until 2021 in the area of business administration and management.

I have taught the following classes:

1. English Composition
2. Business Communications
3. Economics
4. Project Management
5. Project Process Architecture
6. Business Management
7. Strategic Planning
8. Business Policy
9. Introduction to Computers
10. Computer Networking
11. ISO/QS 9000/2000 Certification
12. Leadership
13. Entrepreneurship
14. Financial Planning
15. Digital Skills
16. Statistical Process Control
17. Quality Management
18. Re-engineering Systems
19. Quality Auditing
20. Team Oriented Problem Solving

NOTE:  

1.  During my teaching career, the best students were the ones who were receiving training by their employers to improve their job performance and acquire more marketable skills in case they wanted to change jobs or even companies.

2.  The worst students were the ones who might be considered traditional students pursuing a Bachelors Degree and it did not matter if they were paying tuition or their parents were paying it or their employers were paying it...  they did not seem to take their education seriously.

• These traditional students did not do homework...
• These traditional students did not prepare for the class...
• These traditional students did not like to problem solve...
• These traditional students did not like to drill down on a subject...
• These traditional students expected "A's" because they attended class...
• These traditional students had limited presentation skills...
• These traditional students had poor communication skills...
• These traditional students did not like to participate in class...
• These traditional students did not work well in teams...
• These traditional students did not like essay questions...

These are the same students that are hired by our employers so that those companies can be more competitive and more profitable.

GO FIGURE

My America Has Changed

At the outset, let me say that to refer to this country as MY AMERICA is pretty damn ARROGANT, especially since I am not nor have I ever been in a position the INFLUENCE the direction of MY AMERICA...

I am 73 year old married twice Veteran who has barely managed to survive a 45 year career where I voluntarily agreed to work for INTELLECTUAL IDIOTS whose sole purpose was to demonstrate to others their CONSISTENT INCOMPETENCE when it came to making decisions that their positions indicated that they had to make.

These WELL EDUCATED CLOWNS could not pour piss out of a cowboy boot with directions written on the heel as my Dad used to say about those with whom he had to work...  and like other scientific observers might have stated previously, the apple does not fall far from the tree.

AMERICA suffers from GREED.

AND, quite interestingly, our ECONOMIC GROWTH is contingent upon GREED.

When I was entering the workplace for the first time in the 1950's, the motto was "an honest day's pay for an honest day's work."   Since that time, this phrase has either been forgotten, overlooked, or completely ignored...  because we no longer believe in an honest day's work for an honest day's pay....  NO...  we now believe in the concept of HOW MUCH MONEY CAN I GET FOR DOING THE LEAST AMOUNT OF WORK...

This attitude had always been reserved for those employees who had already worked 30-40 years and who had through the grace of God been promoted through the ranks, finding themselves in positions of power and control...  as they leveled out their working career and began preparing themselves for retirement...

THOSE DAYS ARE LONG GONE...

Students in high school and college DO NOT WANT TO LEARN, they just want to know what they need to MEMORIZE in order to get the "A".  I have had the pleasure of teaching some of the intellectuals in my College Classes and they wrote on a 10th grade level, read on an 8th grade level and had no desire to problem solve or drill down on any subject for an answer unless it was how to get out of doing something or how to steal online music or hack someone's computer.

THESE ARE THE KINDS OF PEOPLE WITH WHOM YOU NEVER WANT TO SHARE A FOXHOLE...

Politics is worse than it has ever been in the sense of failing to compromise or reaching a solution that benefits ALL AMERICANS not just a selected few million.  We have also now turned the corner on the concept that if your party did not win the election, then you and your party must do everything in your power to UNDERMINE AND DESTROY THOSE WHO WON THE ELECTION...

My America has changed...