The GNP in the USA has consistently gone down while wages became stagnant and unemployment shot up–a trend begun by Ronald Reagan and reached its greatest extreme under George W. Bush. How great of a president was Ronald Reagan?
Education has become essential–to get a job–but learning a subject or gaining knowledge is of little interest to most people–because of bad teachers, bad books, and lazy students. Here is how to correct the problems.
Deliberate or unintentional misuse of a language has and will continue to lead to wars, violence and misunderstanding. It is the responsibility of teachers of language to use the language correctly–not in current jargon, but in precise, clear, cogent, and coherent studies of that language.
The Third World of impoverished nations is struggling to learn English in an effort to raise themselves out of squalid conditions and join the First World; to attend better schools, find better jobs, and enjoy a better life. Unfortunately, the IB Programme out of Cambridge UK is destroying that hope for it not only encourages plagiarism and theft, but uses vulgar (street) English. Vulgar English cannot lead to quality work, but it does keep a growing workforce for those who can afford a better education.