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Education
- Thread starter Awoon
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Need? No. Should they have one? Probably, and in a field that is relevant to the decisions they are making. Where their education fails, they should consult relevant experts... which some of them do, and unfortunately some of them do not.
Do you mean elect Bush again? I know he attended college, but few people would argue he was educated there.
I think they should, but I also think politicians should make realistic promises instead of saying whatever the average voter wants to hear. There are a lot of things wrong with the way most countries are run and I don't think reducing the education of those who run it is a good way to go about sorting them. In fact I think it is an idiotic thing to do. In my opinion the person that makes policy on health care should be a doctor, the person makes energy policies should be an electrical engineer.
Ya well the elected College Educated ALL claim their advisers fit those descriptions now.
So...?
This would be lovely, but I can't help but wonder how practical this really is. The types of promises many politicians make require the cooperation of many other individuals to actually go through. I question how much control any single politician really has over the system. Things end up not getting done because of opposition or inefficiencies. We should not pretend that a single politician has a magic wand they can wave to make things happen their way. The system gets choked up with other opinions and red tape. Especially today.
It is to the point that the only realistic promises a politician could really make are half-hearted messages that would not inspire the sorts of passionate followings they need to accrue votes. It would be things like "I'll try to move Washington towards a more responsible stance on global climate change, but the reality is Washington likes to deny it is real so it's likely I won't actually get anything done."
Perhaps but they don't claim to always listen to their advisers. What I am saying is the advisers, as the experts in the subject, should be the ones making the decisions.
Oh I agree it is Idealistic but I would say the general populace are just as a big a part of the promise as what you say here.
So? my friend wrapped a cut on his arm. He's a Doctor.
Well, if anyone wants to be a politician, thought this appropriate since it seems many politicians also have JD degrees.
"Dear Future Lawyers"
Dear Future Lawyers | Via Meadia
"Dear Future Lawyers"
Dear Future Lawyers | Via Meadia
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
Less education is never a solution.
If someone's heading in a bad direction, it is.
See you later...I'm off for my Scientology training class.
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
I've had nothing but endless hours of fun through learning about Scientology. PIcked up some valuable info about human behavior along the way too.
I'm not so sure of that. Knowing how to treat patients or design equipment doesn't necessarily mean that you know how to craft policy for a health care system or a power grid.
I certainly believe that elected representatives need to have a good knowledge of the things under their responsibility, but public administration really has its own set of skills that a doctor or an electrical engineer don't necessarily have.
I think that effective administration needs aspects of both sides, but I don't think that a career electrical engineer who's reasonably well-versed in public administration is necessarily going to be better to make energy policy than a career public administrator who's reasonably well-versed in electrical engineering. I mean, there's one level of knowledge needed to determine when, say, a generating station is needed and another level of knowledge to actually design and build the thing. A politician doesn't need a really detailed level of technical knowledge.
Crystallas
Active Member
The politicians have educations LOL. That's part of how they know how to tear down the system! Do you think the inner political networks of Harvard teach it's members on how to make this nation better? No, they teach it's members how to exploit the working class! Formal education today is not pure and honest. You do not get unbiased interpretations of facts, you get the slant that benefits those who fund the schools the most. The schools are exploited by criminals, and you ask, should they get an education. To me it sounds like they are very well educated!
