Thanks to Anne Neal of the American Council Of Trustees & Alumni (ACTA) for passing along this link to Jay Leno's latest video where Jay asked several people including a college professor questions about the Fourth of July. I am afraid these people are representative of most you meet on the street today. I use to wonder if the people in these types of videos were the ones who cancelled out my vote but after the 2008 presidential election I believe that they are the ones who were organized & added to the ones who had already cancelled out my vote & yours in the past.
For those of you who have children or grandchildren close to college age I suggest that you check out ACTA's website - WhatWill TheyLearn.com - A Guide To What College Rankings Won't Tell You.
A review of the ACTA website with the above Leno video in mind could be just the wakeup call or heads up you need before spending six figures for one let alone two or more children each who wind up graduating from college knowing little or nothing more than the people in the video.
Worse yet who would hire the people in the Leno video? - they certainly cannot contribute to increasing our standard of living & really are destined to become government dependents if they are not already.
It is not that they are stupid - they just don't know anything & probably never will. They are the result of one of the main reasons for America's diminished & diminishing role & influence in an ever increasing competitive world.
Similar theme from the NY Times: Putting our brains on hold -- http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/07/opinion/07herbert.html
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