Quote Originally Posted by Vuk View Post

Education:
1. Standards would be raised enormously (esp in the areas of literacy, business writing, mathematics, etc.) and the focus of school would be to prepare people for jobs or future education. Math, English, Logic, Economics, Critical Thinking, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, History, and Basic Philosophy would all be required subjects. These and classes directly related to industrial and agricultural jobs would be State funded. Anything else would be partially State subsidized, but you would need to pay a fee to take the class. By time a student graduates high-school he/she would be required to get passing grades in calculus, High level (as in mid-to-high for a 4 year college now) Biology, Physics, Economics, and Chemistry classes, and upper-level History classes...
Pardon my nitpicking, but you don't think the study of foreign languages is important enough to American economic and security interests, nevermind general mental enhancement and enrichment, to warrant mandatory status and full subsidization?

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