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[PCIntern]

I’ll make a short story long…

When I began taking Latin in eighth grade for five long years, the Latin teacher, who was a brilliant Oxford/Cambridge university graduate,a British citizen, began each year by saying that when he was in his equivalent of junior high and high school classes everyone was required to take Latin and Greek as well if you wanted to go into any form of literature or humanities scholarship as a career.

There were five students in our class which grew to nine the following year, and then slowly drifted down to about six at the end of my final year. His contention all along was that America was deliberately beginning to Withhold education from its students so that classical education would become a thing of the past, and there would be much more focus on popular entertainment and sports.( Interestingly, he was a first class soccer player and coached our school team, which was a comprised of a bunch of ragtag non-athletes including yours truly to soundly beat powerhouse private schools in the Philadelphia area) .

Of course, this is become known as “dumbing down” of the populace. This morning on Morning Joe, there was a long discussion about the new chip factory opening up in Phoenix, which is owned by a Taiwanese company, and one of the issues apparently in America is that we do not have people who have the necessary education to manage and or supervise These installations. Our graduates from engineering schools are apparently not prepared to enter the cutting edge technologies of modern day manufacturing. They noted that the ship produced in 1956, which was approximately 1“ x 1/2“ compared with the same size chip produced today would require 58 billion (that’s BILLION with a B)of the old chips to make the equivalent computing power of one of the new chips. The progress of science, engineering, and manufacturing in 60+ years is beyond staggering and equally staggering is the fact that I grew up in a country which at least claimed to have the greatest minds in the world l for creativity in these fields and now we are second or third world in this regard.

Well, it worked. We are in a lot of trouble. I will leave you with one last thought today, and that is my civics teacher in grade school, and this was 1965, said that the definition of a colony was that of a territory which exports raw materials and imports finished goods. Well, here we are.