4 days ago: Correction Jim,It is the insistence on complexity that is causing our education system to Mal-function.
The essence of Mr Canada's message is that: ANY successful business model must consider all variables. If any projected variable fail to materialize the model must be adjusted accordingly or the model will fail to meet it's objectivity. .
6 days ago: I note that 122+ thousand people who were not in this audience have viewed this presentation.
2, If I hire a geologist to find the water table on my property , I expect results, not his blaming me for his not getting results. Why are we so willing to give teachers a bypass on showing results?
Mr Canada is correct in that our education system get the results that this business model deserves.
May 10 2013: I once heard Bill Gates say 'American education system is not broken it is performing in accordance to its design, when the system was designed, only a few people needed to be educated. The majority were TRAINED to follow orders given by the educated ones.'
Graduates from the lower /middle class teacher schools are not educators because their professors were not educators.
This is not a accident; America have created a controllable supply of workers,serfs,servants,and wage slaves at the varied levels of performances needed to feed the machine,with the person doing the most undesirable work getting the lowest level of compensation.
If everybody had the same information the person cleaning the toilet would require the highest level of compensation.
Apr 23 2013: What came first the human or the computer; The computer didn't design us to function like them, we designed the computer. The functions are similar because we designed them to function in manners that we were familiar with.OURS.
Apr 13 2013: Scientists have succeeded in breaking the human body down into several groupings of specialized cells, but have they succeeded in determining which of these groups found the need to pursue this endeavor ? To me there must be some force acting as overlord of the entire structure.
Call that force what you will, but the end game of scientific investigation will remain murky until that force is acknowledged.
Apr 7 2013: Under our current economic system,for most people, losing a job is not seen as an opportunity to focus on "other area's of their lives"; It is seen as a food,clothing and shelter crisis
Apr 7 2013: Until we find a means of addressing the disease of capitalism that convert innovative labor saving technology into spare(unemployed) humans, these types of inventions only pushes us closer ruthless chaotic competition amongst the human race,stead of the harmonious serenity that we call "heaven"
Apr 4 2013: Catch-22; access to education in America cost money. Those who can afford it are now paying $20k> per child for kindergarten, and the tax payer funded school system has been failing for years.
Mar 23 2013: By definition the solved problem is no longer complex .The successful scientist/investigator solves the problem by removing each successive layer of complexity until it stands naked for the word to see. The incompetent investigator/scientist adds layers of complexity until even he, if he ever could,can no longer see the root.
Mar 23 2013: "Speak your truth quietly and clearly, but listen to others,even the dull and the ignorant,they too have a story to tell"
Of course if you consider that all who are not beating a familiar drum 'don't know
what they are talking about', you will miss the message in their story.
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The essence of Mr Canada's message is that: ANY successful business model must consider all variables. If any projected variable fail to materialize the model must be adjusted accordingly or the model will fail to meet it's objectivity. .
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2, If I hire a geologist to find the water table on my property , I expect results, not his blaming me for his not getting results. Why are we so willing to give teachers a bypass on showing results?
Mr Canada is correct in that our education system get the results that this business model deserves.
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Graduates from the lower /middle class teacher schools are not educators because their professors were not educators.
This is not a accident; America have created a controllable supply of workers,serfs,servants,and wage slaves at the varied levels of performances needed to feed the machine,with the person doing the most undesirable work getting the lowest level of compensation.
If everybody had the same information the person cleaning the toilet would require the highest level of compensation.
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Call that force what you will, but the end game of scientific investigation will remain murky until that force is acknowledged.
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Of course if you consider that all who are not beating a familiar drum 'don't know
what they are talking about', you will miss the message in their story.