Dumbing Down Education

 In 1966, I entered my first year in college in North Carolina.  As a member of the Freshman class, we were brought into the auditorium for the Dean of Students to talk to us about our future.  His comments stayed in my mind.  "look at the person to your right then look to the person on your left.  Neither one of them will be here at the end of your first year."  It was a statement that most of us did not understand and if we understood the comment, because of our age, we would have not have given a shit.

In 2006 (40 years later) the Dean of Students at that same Freshman class, no longer makes that comment.

What does that mean?

It means that colleges are no longer wanted to flunk people out so that the best of the best are the only ones who survive their first year and ultimately graduate...

Why is this happening?

Colleges and Universities are more interested in generating revenue than they are in graduating only the best, most educated students.

In fact, some colleges and universities are no longer using entrance exams to see if the Freshmann class has the intellectual capacity to be a college student.

We are now pumping out college graduates who are not educated in the hopes of competing with the rest of the world who are well educated and can run circles around American College Graduates.

The unintended consequences of these intellectualized stupidity will show itself in 2030...  a mere seven years away...  

Oh yea...  by then it will be too late to do anything about it.

Welcome to your future, idiot...