Originally Posted by charles vail
In my own case, I had some post high school education and I am finding that the average person does not read much after their formal eduacation ceases. Its long been my contention that college is merely expensive expeditions to the library and a whole bunch of writing, coupled with regular consumption of alcohol and a quest for gratification of one kind or another. Of course this takes place at Mom and Dads expense in the hope that junior will make something of himself. Its a shame really but not true in every case, so please, don't crucify me. Just food for thought[/SIZE][/FONT].
Nice! My interests and choices focused me on becoming an engineer; which helps me look at this issue objectively.
Education (and I don't mean solely formal education here) promotes search for truth. Combats ignorance by providing the tools for finding out answers, arguing your point of view, and challenging poor assumptions. It's no surprise students are the most eager to mobilize in protest: youth may play a factor here too
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I don't like legistlation argued based on bad science or no science at all (marketing?). Calling people ignorant when you bring nothing to the argument is just bad. If a styrofoam lid could prevent brain injury I would be very happy. I really would prefer to loose this argument. But not by silly arguments that have no merit, statistics that have been debunked (yes, the 85% figure), and anecdotes. That would serve no one except several corporations.