I don't see the future quite as negatively as you do. I was a high school physics teacher for 32 years and worked with all academic levels of students. We had 3 academic levels of physics, so we could do a nice job with all levels of students. Sure I saw some brain dead types, but I was always impressed with the great number of kids who were motivated and were learning to "think!". We have a great human resource in the US, and that is probably our most important resource, but our politicians and business leaders have not been kind to this group in the past decade and maybe even 2 decades.
I have 5 grandsons who are in various grades of elementary school, and I have taught all of them the basics of welding. They all have had some experience in driving tractors. Of course these skills will be improved with more time spent in each activity. I expect that all 5 and the 3 grand daughters will go on to college in some field of science or engineering, as all of their parents did.
I think if you spend some real time teaching our youth with appropriate patience (and that is probably not the way our fathers trained us!!), that you will have a much more positive picture of our future generation.
Our educational system, if it is managed correctly, will teach our kids to think, whereas the Oriental system teaches the kids to memorize. They may be able to pass tests based on memory, but they do not become good problem solvers. And thus we have thousands of Chinese coming to the US for college and grad school, and paying a high tuition fee.
Become a volunteer in your community, and help our youth experience something new that their parents are not able to provide. The rewards will be greater than what you give.
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