American Eduction

 Over the last 50 years (going back to 1974) the average GPA for college graduates was C+/B- and now it is B+/A-...

• Have Americans gotten smarter?
• Are high schools doing a better job of teaching and helping student retain information?

Two interesting questions...

FIFTY YEARS AGO (1974) American education was rated NUMBER ONE in the world.  Today, that same education is rated 15th/17th depending upon which study you read.

If American education is declining in high school then how can the grades of college graduates be increasing?

Logically, this should not be happening and yet it is which means that today's college education is being WATERED DOWN to accommodate these weak performing students.  In many cases, college professors are not assigning grades (pass/fail) or they have lowered their standards.

Consequently, these college graduates are being hired by our businesses and industries and have no retention or very little retention of knowledge.

• What does this mean for our economy?
• Will America be able to compete in the global marketplace?

Again, two interesting questions...

But, here is a more interesting question:  

• If you owned a company, who would you hire, an American college graduate or a humanoid robot with artificial intelligence?

My guess is that you would hire the robot, especially since they do not smoke, drink alcohol, take illegal drugs, need vacation leave or sick leave and do not get pregnant, have heart attacks or contract cancer.

So, one would suspect that a college education costs $30,000 a year and just getting a bachelor's degree is not enough, so now one needs a master's degree or another 1-2 years.

Therefore, student loans (on average) are going to be around $150,000...

It does not take a rocket scientist to see that going to college may not be what high school graduates should do.