Comments for University Perversity: America Taking the Stupid Pill at http://www.jbs.org , comment 1 to 4 out of 4 comments http://www.jbs.org Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:38:38 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.jbs.org/jbs-news-feed/5319#comment-2386 Mr. Duke has a great sense of humor, but this article really needs more statistics to keep it out of the entertainment category. Picking out a few oddball courses from all of the colleges and universities in the US does not give me an accurate picture of the state of education in the nation today. Statements like "employers are noticing" is hardly the equivalent of hard information. That "...31% of college graduates can read and understand a complex book" is more in that direction, and I would like to see more of that and less sarcasm. I would not be at all surprised to find the statistics horrifying, but I have to see them to be actually horrified. - eyeopener Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:53:27 +0100 http://www.jbs.org/jbs-news-feed/5319#comment-2072 Just a quick question: are we going to have a czar/czarina of stupidity now? - danwhitehead1 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:07:50 +0100 http://www.jbs.org/jbs-news-feed/5319#comment-2071 - - - but I think I'm going to have to go vomit now. And I thought it was bad in the late '70s/early '80s. Apparently the college grads can no longer read, write, do arithmetic or figure logically from point A to point B, but boy do they sure feel great about themselves. - danwhitehead1 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:06:10 +0100 http://www.jbs.org/jbs-news-feed/5319#comment-2070 Unfortunately, I have had the occasion to work with many of these so called "graduates" and I can tell you it is frightening. They have no cognitive skills to speak of, can barely read and definitely cannot spell. However, they are very adept with the computer and with text messaging. But if you don't know how to write a sentence (or can't even spell), what good is that in the business world? Or what about logically deducing where to call for information so you can proceed to the next step of your project? This is quite beyond beyond being "green." Forgive me for sounding negative, but I see a bleak future ahead. - Still Free Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:04:11 +0100