[geeks] Discuss this quote...

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Sandwich Maker <adh at an.bradford.ma.us>
>Date: 2007/08/27 Mon PM 12:13:56 CDT
>To: geeks at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Discuss this quote...

>" From: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick at zill.net>
>"
>"
>" A funny quote further down the thread:
>"
>" "I regularly advocate Mensans to forget about college, take up
>" welding, and thus get the world by the short hairs. If its money
>" that matters in the USA (Randy Newman), a trade is the quickest,
>" most certain, and most independent way to get there. You can read
>" Kant and Nietzsche very well on your own without a Philosophy prof
>" making ludicrous suggestions all the time."
>
>this goes along with the car talk rant about art history majors
>learning to say 'you want fries with that?'...  all those liberal
>arts courses are valuable subjects - they just don't have much career
>potential.
>
>i could go on my own rant about history being written by english
>majors and why don't we have technology history courses?  the
>invention of the windmill has probably had more effect on europe than
>most anything short of the plague.

How much of the current mortgage industry shake-out could have been avoided if
schools taught simple math concepts around real-world examples (mortgage,
credit cards, inflation, etc.)?

And don't get me started on the folks that wnat to throw the estimated 25% of
uninsured children in households making up to 200% of the federal poverty
level (poverty level is about $20K, so less than $40K/year)! They insist that
they need to expand eligibility to include children in households making
upwards of $80K/year, but have no plans to expand membership by the poorest of
the poor. On the surface, the political parties aligned on either side of this
debate are suprising, but after a moment's reflection it makes perfect sense
(expand handouts to likely voters, not actually take care of the poor and
needy)...

Lionel