It's hopeless to expect Korzybskian rigor from the
entertainment industry - politicians, academics,
journalists (as if they were separate orders!) - but here,
I think, we can differentiate among primary, secondary,
and university expectation/ performance ratios.
I have to agree with Mike Lorrey and others that the
current U.S. primary school system fails to provide
literacy, numeracy, knowledge of the physical environment,
and understanding of the political system. Whether this
is a true vision, whether and how it can be corrected, are
topics on the table.
My own view is that the problems in education have the
same roots as those in health care: the people incurring
the costs are not the people paying the price, and the
entertainer class has insinuated itself between the
principals. To the extent that being little- e extropian
means seeing a swirling mob of yoots and geezers rioting
in the road ahead, and means seeing the absolute necessity
of proceeding down that road, I think the distribution of
these social necessities wants extrapolitical analysis.
Wonder what it would take to induce ETS to administer the
College Entrance Examination battery of, say, 1960, and
then release the raw scores of then and now? If it were
just a matter of money, could the Libertarian Party USA
raise the scratch?
stencil sends
RKBA!
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