Stile writes:
What's the general status of things currently?
Should the US make moves into creating more of a national standard? (Put money into political policies and hopefully a national standard)
Or should the US strengthen it's individual education segments and continue as it is currently? (Put money into individual school boards)
Perspective is everything. We can start by asking some basic questions regarding education in general, intelligence in general, and tie it in with human progress in general. There are many concepts, ideas, and realities that are only twenty to thirty years away. I recently watched a TED talk on one of them:
The world could run out of food two decades earlier than thought (By 2027)
Thus, while Kurzweil and other Sci Fi dreamers are telling us that we collectively will reach some sort of Turing moment where our collective intelligence will leapfrog, the whole concept of intelligence itself has to be defined by basic issues and problems such as how to feed ourselves or how to keep from spending money on 70 year old bombers lumbering through the skies with nuclear weapons.
Chance as a real force is a myth. It has no basis in reality and no place in scientific inquiry. For science and philosophy to continue to advance in knowledge, chance must be demythologized once and for all. —RC Sproul
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." —Mark Twain "
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If that's not sufficient for you go soak your head."~Faith
Paul was probably SO soaked in prayer nobody else has ever equaled him.~Faith