New Technology and Ignorance

agreed, unless they are all stuck in the same class, waiting. and waiting. i have no idea how things are now, my last one graduated high school in 2003.

one controversy that continues to rage is standardized graduation testing, with the bright kids breezing through, and some of the others left behind. it has been so difficult because there isn't room to hold that many students back from graduation. so teachers either cheat the system to move them on, or teach to the test, so that is all they learn.
admittedly, i don't follow it that closely anymore, you get burned out after 20 years of your own schooling, and 25 years of your children's schooling.

 

My brother and I were forced to attend a museum exhibit of gifts to the Emperor of China over the centuries.
About half way through I noticed that the technology to draw gold into wire had very greatly improved. We went back to the beginning with the idea that you would gift the emperor the very best mankind was able to do at each era and that when we saw improvement, it is because technology improved. It made a very different exhibit, and greatly confused the guides as they were not science majors. It ended with terra cotta warriors, which was very interesting as you could see men that look like Turks, and men who clearly came from India, and Africa. We annoyed the guides again by considering it as an anthropology exhibit rather than the art exhibit they were majors in. (we assumed the number of statues was proportional to the number of men in real life, a dangerous assumption: Interestingly all such images seem scrubbed from Google)