Dumbness and Stupidity

I was watching Jay Leno's last show before he left for his short stint in prime time and he did his Jaywalking thing. I was amazed at how stupid some of the people were. I think that we should be very worried about this. Some of the people had very simple answers suggested to them by Leno. One was what is the largest state in the union? Anyone who doesn't know it is Alaska should go sit in a corner with a dunce cap on. Even when Leno gave the guy a clue the guy still took several tries to get it right. Another person, female, said that freedom of speech was a commandment. It is obvious that these people have few if any intelligence genes in their bodies. What these people thought that some of the answers were was so erroneous that their answer made them seem stupid.

Of course it is our schools to blame because they are not reaching the students with the education they need. These people are operating with less than adequate mental resources. In my days in school we would learn the lesson or else we would fail and if we continued to fail we would be held back a year until we got it right. Now that appears to be the last thing any teacher wants to do. If the student wants to ignore the teacher and not learn anything it is okay for them to do that. The reason why is that schools are pushing them into the next grade without caring whether the student knew the material from the year before. They do this so they won't stigmatize the student. Hurt their fragile egos by making them feel like failures. So they turn out idiots who can get into college because the colleges have lowered the admission standards to accommodate the little idiot and make money off them even though they are as dumb as fence posts.

This country needs to wake up and see what the harm to our society is from these idiots who go into the workplace ill prepared for it. If we had people who were moderately well prepared to understand what the customer really needs our auto industry would be in better shape. Now after years of trying to make the customer fit the car they are realizing that the car must fit the customer. This is a reality most other automakers understand. Detroit is just catching up to that idea.