Is this the price for not educating our people?

More than 25 years ago, I moved to US. I was shocked to see the number of uneducated people around. In my culture, you are middle class if you are educated. In US, education had nothing to do with your social standing. As a result, the richer you were, the less cultured you seemed. I mean look at Trump!!!
I left US after 8 years.. back to Europe and Cental Asia and Middle East. There is an old saying that to travel is to live. No one I knew in US ever really travelled. And if they did, they never saw anything but a hotel and a pool.
Anyway, I wonder sometimes if the lack of curiosity and hunger for learning has put the globe in this situation now. US’s policies are effecting everyone, especially Middle East. In the old days it was ok, because you still had a moral code to follow. Now the construction of a hotel determines who are allies and who are foes. Business in Saudi for Trump, gives us war with Iran. Business with Netanyahu, moves embassy to Jerusalem... business with Putin, gives us fanatic Christians running the county, protecting unborn zygots, while killing living ones at the boarder, in Yemen, in hospitals in Iran..

America. Please educate your children. Make education free like so many other countries. Teach them history and empathy, science and collaboration. With the amount of money you spend on weapons, you put the globe in danger with every uneducated child you send into the world.

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MistyCee

Sadly, these things you mention are scorned by a good number of Americans who follow Trump.

They've decided that lack of empathy, ignorance of history, denial of science and refusing to collaborate or even to negotiate in good faith, are virtues and we're having a wee bit of a conflict over it.

Writer · 100+, F

It is not their fault. There is a misconception that educated people are snobbish or nasty or naiive... I think if education was free, more people would get educated. But stupid is sometimes a choice especially now that it has become trendy. Lets hope for the best.@MistyCee

SW-User

@Writer Education is so expensive, most of the time Americans will say college is useless and it is for the fools. As you said it’s not their fault, you don’t need to get an education to get a good career there. That’s how you end up with rich ignorants who run the country.

gol979 · 41-45, M

@Writer I kind of agree with what you're saying but education (as it stands) is indoctrination......so while I laud your sentiment I would say we need to have a societal discussion about what we teach our children

Writer · 100+, F

@gol979 abdolutely... everything starts at home..

softspokenman · M

@MistyCee Morality is determined by the society that defines it. There is more long term profit from the truth for everyone than there is from the short term profit from greed and deceit for a few.

MistyCee

@softspokenman Careful with that. It sounds pretty leftist to be taking talking about the greatest good for the greatest number.

Isn't what makes America Great the opportunity for some to achieve greater wealth and isn't rewarding greed a part of that?

softspokenman · M

Isn't it time that it stopped ? Nothing wrong with becoming wealthy but if it is from greed and deceit by a few than there is something wrong. Philanthropists aren't poor people. @MistyCee

MistyCee

@softspokenman I think it should be curbed or tempered at least.

One of the things that bothers me most about Making America Great again is that our country was built on things like smuggling, slavery, low wage immigrants and child labor, not to mention later socialist innovations like the New Deal and the GI Bill.

I'm not a huge fan of wealth redistribution, but to a degree, I think it has a role to play as do free markets, government monopolies, and public schools. I also think eventually, we're going to end up with a single payer healthcare system, especially, if we sabotage work around like Obamacare instead of improving them.

But, on a more modest level, I think we should decrease the focus on prosecuting poor and immigrant related criminals and increase prosecution of white collar crime and criminal organizations.

This editorial, I thought, was well put.

Opinion | Go Back to Normal After Trump? No Thanks - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/opinion/trump-michael-cohen-crime.html?partner=rss&emc=rss