The Baytown Bulletin Board

What good is an education? If we can't produce a kind of people who can create new technology and solve technological problems then we are wasting money funding education systems.We seem to have more doctors and lawyers than ordinary people can afford to hire.Maybe all the new immigrants will do us a favor and bring a change in our thinking. I put my hope in them because they missed about fifty years of TV/Hollywood brainwashing.We lost it after that. We need some need blood here. Do we educate children to flip burgers for seven bucks an hour? Or deliver Pizza? Or sit in a cubicle and peck on a keyboard?------ There is a university in this town. I bet billions have been pumped into that thing and what comes of that? Tree huggers? Bird watchers? We need a new energy system. Exxon has plenty of money. They wont go hungry but we will. Put those kids to experimenting with hydrogen fueled cars. Or maybe an electric car? There are thousands of things to be created or improved. A replacement for the compressor type air conditioner is needed. We have not solved all the problems here on this planet but we spend billions going out into space.We will soon be out of money as we borrow from foreign nations just to prop up the dollar.. What little we gain on space exploration will not get us out of the fix we are in now. Creating energy saving devices has a world market. We can ship things out at the port of Houston rather than stab ourselves in the back by buying from people who have threatened to fire nuclear armed missiles at us. I see giant piles of cars being scrapped out to be shipped to foreign nations.They will melt them down and turn them into products to sell back here in the USA. Are we such big idiots that we can't compete? If energy cost are so high. How can all the steel be shipped from here to China then back here as consumer products at low cost? The problem as I see it is that our educators are brain dead up at the highest positions. <> PS. This is an example of things you wont se in the Baytown Sun. (They call that a newspaper.)

To compete, we have to redesign our schools. Students must be given time for creativity and problem-solving within a framework of learning the basics and beyond. They must learn to think and we must establish a strong work ethic. No easy task. The work force today is lazy and demanding.

I agree there needs some changes along those lines,If you study your fellow countrymen today they follow a certain pattern.Someone devises a new device and the crowds try to find defects but only to do with the finish paint or looks.Not only that but the crowd laughs.They do this to imply that they think the new device is not worthy of consideration by them because they are far advanced and their knowledge is so vast that they find these things laughable.. They try to regiment thinking by laughter so that nobody advances beyond their circle of ignorance. I learned far more technology outside of classrooms than inside. Another thing is that today the CEO of corporations and those in that circle first look at ones degree in engineering rather than the item of discussion such as a new machine.So anyone who submits a new creation in some technological field will be rejected.Not because the device is defective but because the inventor has no degree from MIT.Another thing. As cheating on exams has become more acceptable then the people up at high positions are more apt to steal ideas than give the credit to the creator.Then I think schools and universities do not encourage creativity but employ techniques in teaching to make everyone the same. Strangely enough that in the fifties when we had less education we produced a lot of our best inventors. Leo Fender .Maybe had a high school education. William Lear had an eighth grade education but he created the first corporate jet.

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