Tag Archives: education

We Can’t Count on Anything

So much is happening in the world that sets our teeth on edge. The things we took for granted gave us a false sense of security. Banks are going belly-up. Countries are going bankrupt, There has been an increase in natural disasters and governments are toppling. Nothing feels safe any more. Some of the things we took for granted were: If you want to work, you can find a job. If you want a good job that pays well, get …

How the Mighty Have Fallen

We used to be number one in almost everything but, over the last couple of decades, America has been losing the competitive edge after so many years of being on top. We saw it in the schools when the byword was that it’s more important that students should feel good about themselves than learn useless information in their classes. I’ve spoken to teachers from the elementary school grades up through college level and they are all saying the same thing. …

The Path I Didn’t Take

Everyone usually talks about the path they took but I can’t do that because I wasn’t aware that there was a path I’d be walking. In those days, you grew up in your parent’s house and you remained there until you got married or someone offered you some kind of employment in a different city or state that didn’t require an education. It’s important to note that I said employment that didn’t require an education because in those days, women …

Almost Everyone Here Is an Immigrant

Anyone who was born in America before Columbus came here can technically be called an American; anyone who came here after Columbus discovered America can technically be called an immigrant. And that makes almost everyone in America an immigrant. So why all this fuss about immigration? We hear all these stories about illegal immigrants using our tax dollars for education, healthcare, etc., but if we didn’t deport immigrants and we had open borders, there wouldn’t be any illegal immigrants. So …

Studies Show We’re Getting Dumber

Research suggests human intelligence has declined and that people are getting dumber. A new study shows that while technology may be getting smarter, Westerners lost 14 I.Q. points on average since the Victorian Era. They point to a number of reasons, one of them being that women of high intelligence tend to have fewer children than do women of lower intelligence. They say, “This negative association between I.Q. and fertility has been demonstrated time and again in research over the …

The Modern American Woman

We tend to think of women in this country as having all kinds of educational opportunities and all kinds of career opportunities. But is this really true? The majority of women have jobs; a small percentage of women have flourishing careers. It’s not necessarily that women don’t want more, that they don’t want brilliant careers, it’s more that they don’t know how to achieve those goals. They don’t know how to take those first baby steps. There are certainly more …

I Want Learning to Be Fun Again

I was talking to a very dear friend and we were discussing the pros and cons about the way education has changed in the last thirty years. In our day, we relied on dictionaries and encyclopedias for our information. And we really could rely on them being accurate. Nowadays, we look up information on Google and Wikipedia and, due to the number of inaccuracies, we can’t be sure if our data is correct. One of my greatest pleasures in life …

The Starter Wife

A number of years ago, I heard the term “starter wife.” The definition was “The woman you meet and marry while at university or in training who helps put you through school, has your children, and runs your home and contributes financially while your career is being established, and then when you have made it career-wise, you ditch her for a younger, fresher version who coos over you and worships you.” While the terminology was newer, the concept certainly wasn’t. …

Good Jobs in Any Economy

One of my clients teaches at a community college and he is always complaining about the incompetence of his students. According to him, they can’t do simple math and they can’t follow simple directions, no matter how often they hear them or read them. Most of them have jobs, not careers, and they aren’t making a lot of money. He has told me often enough that his students don’t do their homework, they couldn’t care less about the machines they …

High School Students Get Time Out

Until recently, when you heard a parent telling her child he was getting time out and that he had to sit in a corner, the child was usually anywhere in age from a toddler to a child in kindergarten. Now, it’s being used for high school students who have broken the new dress code and have been sent to detention. A New York high school principal has implemented a new dress code for the students and, so far, 200 students …

Connie H. Deutsch