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   toasteroven said, 2 months ago

   So… you’re saying it’s better now, right? Because that’s the impressing I’m getting.

   Say, how old is Asay? His “used to be” appears to be the 1920’s, at the latest.

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   cdward said, 2 months ago

   Once again, ANandy makes up statistics.
   Oh, and for ANandy’s information, we’ve had schools in the US for a lot longer than 20 years.

   It seems like Asay is saying living with your parents is worse than the Great Depression and World War II. It also gives you the feeling that back then they were aiming at a Great Depression right out of those quaint schools.

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   Kylop said, 2 months ago

   Is Asay trying to say “It used to be the school was small and the peope coming out of it dealt with big problems. Now its the school is big and the people coming out of it don’t do anything”?

   Its not as clear as his usual ‘toons. But knowing his style I’m looking for the insult to…something.

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   wolfhoundblues1 said, 2 months ago

   Thank you Kylop for getting it. The other Nimrods are clueless.

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   DrCanuck said, 2 months ago

   Asay is a closet liberal. His hidden message is that the poor education of the past led people to make poor decisions based on lack of knowledge that led to wars and depressions. Today, kids with a superior education can help out their narrow-minded and underemployed parents.

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   charlie555 said, 2 months ago

   It used to be the schools built on the values of the parents which prepared children for the battles of life.

   Now schools waste 12 years replacing basic human values with useless propaganda, so the children feel ill-prepared for life. They instinctively want to go back home and relearn what they knew when they were 5.

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   iamthelorax said, 2 months ago

   DrCanuck: As a grandfather you should know by now that teenagers don’t need an education to be superior, they already know everything! LOL!

   I don’t know if this has anything to do with the ‘toon, but I am noticing some of that behavior in my daughter. She’s finishing up CEGEP after 3 years (which should only have taken 2), she took a Social Science program because she has no idea what she wants, doesn’t know if she’ll go to University and even less what she’d study if she goes there.

   Now she’s 20, has absolutely not found anything in adult life that attracts her and I do wonder what it is that’s missing that would have given her direction.

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   parkersinthehouse said, 2 months ago

   she’s probably an artist man. never discourage an artist. of course (in answer to your next question) it will never make any money unless you go for seven years and get the mfa and then teach at university. does she have drawing, musical, theatrical talent?

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   pbrown280c said, 2 months ago

   He’s saying that in the past people learned more from life experience; now the schools try to make kids feel good about themselves and utterly fail to prepare them for life.

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    DrCanuck said, 2 months ago

    lorax: My grandbaby is just a LITTLE too young to argue with grampa just now.

    As for your daughter, don’t worry about it. Some kids take a little longer than others, and she is well within the margin of error at 20. Encourage university, encourage coursework in all manner of disciplines, encourage experimentation. She needs to know what’s out there before she can make an informed decision. If she is bright and did well in highschool, she has earned the right to extend her adolescence for another four years of personal growth.

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    iamthelorax said, 2 months ago

    She is artistic, but has no interest in doing it beyond hobby type stuff. She just doesn’t know what she wants in life…which is cool with her, but of course I have to sit there and chew my fingernails off waiting for something to click.

    I have a couple artistic friends; They actually make good money now, once they decided to “sell-out” and be graphic designers, some got jobs doing artwork for video games.

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    charlie555 said, 2 months ago

    If she is destined for a MRS. degree, all that’s missing is Mr. Right.

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    iamthelorax said, 2 months ago

    DrC: I mis-spoke. I meant that if you have a grandson, then you had a child that went through the teen years first. :-)

    20 is still young like you say, some people just need time.

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    parkersinthehouse said, 2 months ago

    i’ll amend my post to agree with Dr and you -

    i was 33 when i went back to college (& almost 40 in grad school, post 40 in teaching at univ.), my son is 45 and ace-ing his first univ. classes at clemson, and my grandmother was 64 when she Ph.D’d (& then taught at U of Mich.). there really aren’t any deadlines thankfully. some people need more time than others

    ºO
    U

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    cdward said, 2 months ago

    wolfhoundblues wrote: “The other Nimrods are clueless.”

    I’m guessing you would mean me and my interpretation of Asay’s toon. Don’t worry, I got what he meant, but I also got the irony of it.

    I also see generational grousing. The schools of today aren’t what they used to be. The kids of today aren’t what they used to be. Back in *my* day, kids were industrious and polite. So I offer this quote, one my 8th grade science teacher read to us on our first day of class, as a reminder that the good old days aren’t always as they seem:

    “The young people today love luxury; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in places of exercise. Children are tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when their elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties [food] at the table, cross their legs and tyrannise their teachers” (Socrates, fourth century BC)

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    deadheadzan said, 2 months ago

    “The good old days” seen through a misty film of wish it was really so, were not really that good, if you look at them realistically. We all have great challenges, no matter the age, no matter the circumstance.

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    DrCanuck said, 2 months ago

    cd: HA! Same as it ever was.

    (They cross their legs? Oh, the cheek!)

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    tizzo said, 2 months ago

    The first panel shows education as it used to be, focused simply on one thing – education. The graduates it produced went on to successfully prevail over several large-scale problems that they faced (The Great Depression, WWII, etc.)

    The second panel shows “education” as it exists today, a massively more complex system than of yesteryear, in which actual education plays just a very small part. The problems to be faced by the products of today’s system are left to speculation. To me it seems more like an invitation to imagine how today’s graduates would fare when faced with the problems from the previous generation as depicted in the first panel. My assumption is that Asay is not optimistic…

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    David said, 2 months ago

    Nice picture. Today we spend more money on education than any other country in the world yet we are pretty far down in the rankings on the quality of education.

    That will never change as long as our politicians stupidly throw good money after bad and don’t address any of the real problems in the schools.

    We will have better quality of education when we boot the Federal government out of the process and incentivise the schools to do better.

    The Federal government has zero Constitutional authority to administer or regulate education in this country. My source is the Constitution itself, specifically the 10th amendment.