Am I on drugs?

[Timothy W.]

Am I high?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsFsn8ekyhw&feature=player_embedded

Did a United States Congressman really just express concerns that an island will tip over and capsize? Really? Seriously?

Eddie, did you put something "special" in my cigars?

[Rich Schroeder]

anywho...here are some of Mr Johnson's credentials...

Rep. Johnson practiced civil and criminal law in DeKalb County for twenty-seven (27) years. A staunch supporter of public education, he is a graduate of the District of Columbia Public Schools, Clark College in Atlanta and the Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University

You would think that someone who is SO educated would be intelligent and able to realize the stupidity in what he was saying. Perhaps big time lawyers and their fancy schools just can't take the stupid out of people. I wonder how much money he spent on education to become intelligent?

[J Scott]

Originally posted by rich23s:

You would think that someone who is SO educated would be intelligent and able to realize the stupidity in what he was saying. Perhaps big time lawyers and their fancy schools just can't take the stupid out of people. I wonder how much money he spent on education to become intelligent?

Unfortunately, most of the K-12 schools in this country aren't focused on teaching people to think logically and become "more intelligent". They are focused on rote learning (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rote_learning) and preparing students to function as unskilled employees so that they can survive -- albeit meagerly -- in the world.

Many of our colleges and universities aren't much better, and by the time kids get into institutions of higher learning, they've already been trained not to think logically, but instead to just memorize content.

It's difficult to break that thought process once you're an adult, which is why even most of those people who go to college never really learn critical thinking skills.

This guy is just another example of that...

IMO, that's the biggest reason this country is at risk of losing its economic advantage over the rest of the world...we just don't have enough people who can truly "think outside the box" and innovate...