Nothing depresses me as much as the sheer ignorance of our college students.
What do they teach them in schools now? Women's Studies? How the US interred the Japanese in WWII? Or that we dropped the atom bomb? That's the only things they know about our history with any certainty.
Maybe I'm judging them too harshly. They are really good at texting. They can text "Wassup?" and "Nutin, wassup wit U?" back and forth at surprising speed and dexterity.
I hope they can find employers who find those skills useful. Otherwise they will be at the public trough. Come to think of it, that may be the Plan. More ignoramuses, more welfare recipients, more Democratic voters! It all works out for the best.
Born 1945 in Los Angeles. Worked from 1998-2016 as adjunct teacher at University of California at Irvine Ext. teaching English as a second language.
Served three years in US Army Military Police at Erlangen, Germany 1966-68.
1970-1973- Criminal Investigator with US Customs
1973-1995 Criminal investigator with Drug Enforcement Administration. Stationed in Los Angeles, Bangkok, Milan, Italy, Pittsburgh and Office of Training, FBI Academy, Quantico, Va. until retirement.
Author of Erlangen-An American's History of a German Town-University Press of America 2005,
The Story of Papiamentu- A Study in Slavery and Language, University Press of America, 2002, and
The Languages of the Former Soviet Republics-Their History and Development, University Press of America, 2000.
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Nothing depresses me as much as the sheer ignorance of our college students.
What do they teach them in schools now? Women's Studies? How the US interred the Japanese in WWII? Or that we dropped the atom bomb? That's the only things they know about our history with any certainty.
More than sad.... tragic.
Wonderful look at the benefits of a uber-liberal educaton.
And I thought the dumbing down of America started at the grade school level...but it is certainly alive and well at UCLA.
Maybe I'm judging them too harshly. They are really good at texting. They can text "Wassup?" and "Nutin, wassup wit U?" back and forth at surprising speed and dexterity.
I hope they can find employers who find those skills useful. Otherwise they will be at the public trough. Come to think of it, that may be the Plan. More ignoramuses, more welfare recipients, more Democratic voters! It all works out for the best.
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