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In reply to the discussion: An Overheard Conversation at the MSP Airport ... [View all]chervilant
(8,267 posts)Some of the most 'educated' individuals I've met are fundamentally illiterate in math and science, even when math or science is the core of their degree program. In our system of public education du jour, they can rote memorize anything to achieve a passing grade, but their critical thinking skills are under-developed or severely stunted by the very system that should encourage each of us to be creative and resourceful.
All that being said, not a single human being on this planet would appreciate being called 'stupid,' and not just because we are NOT. Until our public discourse is no longer derisive and divisive, we have no hope of pursuing a reasonable consensus among ourselves about how to survive this ongoing and challenging socio-economic reordering of our species.
(Would that more of our species might 'look at this differently.')