5 Ways NOT To “Make America Great Again.” And One Way To Do It.

[eridani]

http://www.nationofchange.org/news/2016/03/28/5-ways-not-make-america-great-one-way/

4. Let Market-Oriented Education Skip the Most Important Areas of Learning

Free-market champion Milton Friedman said this about education: “In order to have satisfactory performance, you have to have a customer who needs to be served.”

Thus the need for standardized methods of instruction and testing that enrich companies like Pearson and McGraw-Hill. But a great nation would understand, as shown by a study at Michigan State University, that “success in science is accompanied by developed ability in other fields such as the fine arts.”

Along with the fine arts, our kids need to know:

—-Nutrition — Americans get 60% of their calories from “ultra processed” food (flavorings, colors, sweeteners, other additives), and just 1% from vegetables;

—-Money Management — Instead of investing $20/week in lottery tickets, a stock market annual return of 7% will accumulate to over $100,000 in thirty years;

—-Public speaking, the greatest fear of most people. A speech every month for 12 years would go a long way toward building confidence in our young people.

[SylviaD]

1. I wish Democrats would stop using that phrase

...for any reason. Doesn't matter if we're using it to explain how Trump's policies are ridiculous and regressive.

Merely repeating the phrase lends it credence. There is no need to "make America great again" because that implies president Obama has made it less than great. Also it implies a nostalgia that is unjustified considering the horrible economic disasters caused by for example Ronald Reagan, which is the period Trump is alluding to with the phrase.