>Then, I dreamed of how computer assisted education would advance in the next quarter of a century. Five years ago, in a brief return to teaching (another field for which access by older people is difficult), I saw what the passing of 20 years had done for education: NOTHING.

I'm writing papers on this subject as we speak. I find their inability to embrace what everyone else in the world has used for solutions as pathetic and a very accuracte representation of American education in general.

Everytime I hear a whiny college kid, a good for nothing PhD, or a sheltered Independent School District Superintendent bitch about schools not being funded properly or on the brink of bankruptcy, I say "Good!"

Why? If education was so gaddamned important, wouldn't it be rather simple, to as a nation, or at least, as a state, decide on what kids need to know? Drop some money into researching this, coming up with excellent curriculmus and lesson plans, dropping them all on extremely inexpensive CD ROMs and supplying the whole country with super-standard teaching tools?

I think its insanely ironic that there is a problem including under funded schools teaching sub-standard material poorly, when there is an extremely inexpensive, extremely effective way about it in the 21st centruy.

Public education is the "good ol' boys" club, plain and simple. Its a self perpetuating system of elitists with absoultely no real world expereience at the university level. At the elementary to highschool level it is run by people that can barely manage their own households, much less a building full of children.

Education is a joke.