What Happened to Education

[Mr. Knowitall]

I don't need no education. I don't need no thought control.

But dark sarcasm? Oooh, baby! I needs me some dark sarcasm.

[Joshuadeuce1]

I don't need no education. I don't need no thought control.

But dark sarcasm? Oooh, baby! I needs me some dark sarcasm.

Pink Floyd, Really, I would have NEVER guessed. We may share some common ground after all.

[LawResearcherMissy]

I don't need no education. I don't need no thought control.

But dark sarcasm? Oooh, baby! I needs me some dark sarcasm.

Don't make me come over there...

[Papi Yanqui]

Typos are normal, but what happened to the education people had in their younger years?? Have you noticed to horrendous spelling and grammer as of late?

Why do you suppose that is?

Yup. I sure have...

[zedex]

Pink Floyd, Really, I would have NEVER guessed. We may share some common ground after all.

I guess that makes three. Pink Floyd is still tops. About this sound, though, a little useless trivia:

In 1981, Floyd played at some outdoor show in England near the Palace. The high tones, percussion, and amplification killed the queen's fish in some pond near by. Pink Floyd was banned from ever playing there again. The song that did it : Another Brick in The Wall.

{ I tried to replicate the effect, but I guess I had some tough fish. They were American fish, afterall. Not some whimpy, snob nosed proper English fish}

[Justice Walks]

@ Bubba Jimmy and others;

I agree, classical education is dead, deceased, decomposing amongst the literary greats that we were once forced to read yet learned to appreciate. My fiance is now searching for private school jobs teaching high school aged youth with the phrase repeated, "I want to teach students that want to learn." I failed to mention that she works in the Bronx, where some of the kids she gets still don't have the slightest clue and even have serious literacy issues. On top of that she is a special ed teacher, so she witnesses first hand the complexities of a failed educational and social system in which we all live.

First they take out music and P.E. Second they remove extra-curricular activities. Third they cut back staff and close schools based on evaluative testing that benefit the overall impression toward the public of elected individuals such as Mike Bloomberg, which is ion no way evaluative in scientific ways, suggesting that a handful picked students represent the total population.

My kid is definitely not going to a public school in the Bronx, let alone a public institution at all. Is it me, or is the overall efficiency of city planning and government in New York City arse backwards? I'm originally from the SF Bay Area, have lived in Southern California for 9 years and have experienced the same shortfalls in education, usually related to geographic area and poverty.

If the kids don't grow intellectually will our economy?