After leading the world for decades in 25-34 year olds with university degrees, the U.S. is now in 12th place. The World Economic Forum ranked the U.S. at 52nd among 139 nations in the quality of its university math and science instruction in 2010. Nearly 50% of all graduate students in the sciences in the U.S. are foreigners, most of whom are returning to their home countries;
The Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs commissioned a civic education poll among public school students. A surprising 77% didn't know that George Washington was the first President; couldn't name Thomas Jefferson as the author of the Declaration of Independence; and only 2.8% of the students actually passed the citizenship test. Along similar lines, the Goldwater Institute of Phoenix did the same survey and only 3.5% of students passed the civics test;
According to the National Research Council report, only 28% of high school science teachers consistently follow the National Research Council guidelines on teaching evolution, and 13% of those teachers explicitly advocate creationism or "intelligent design;"
18% of Americans still believe that the sun revolves around the earth, according to a Gallup poll;
The American Association of State Colleges and Universities report on education shows that the U.S. ranks second among all nations in the proportion of the population aged 35-64 with a college degree, but 19th in the percentage of those aged 25-34 with an associate or high school diploma, which means that for the first time, the educational attainment of young people will be lower than their parents;
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74% of Republicans in the U.S. Senate and 53% in the House of Representatives deny the validity of climate change despite the findings of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and every other significant scientific organization in the world;
According to the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress, 68% of public school children in the U.S. do not read proficiently by the time they finish third grade. And the U.S. News & World reported that barely 50% of students are ready for college level reading when they graduate;
According to a 2006 survey by National Geographic-Roper, nearly half of Americans between ages 18 and 24 do not think it necessary to know the location of other countries in which important news is being made. More than a third consider it "not at all important" to know a foreign language, and only 14 percent consider it "very important;"
According to the National Endowment for the Arts report in 1982, 82% of college graduates read novels or poems for pleasure; two decades later only 67% did. And more than 40% of Americans under 44 did not read a single book--fiction or nonfiction--over the course of a year. The proportion of 17 year olds who read nothing (unless required by school ) has doubled between 1984-2004;
Gallup released a poll indicating 42 percent of Americans still believe God created human beings in their present form less than 10,000 years ago;
A 2008 University of Texas study found that 25 percent of public school biology teachers believe that humans and dinosaurs inhabited the earth simultaneously.
http://www.sott.net/article/313177-The-cult-of-ignorance-in-the-United-States-Anti-intellectualism-and-the-dumbing-down-of-America
>>66559157
The infrastructure in the US alone is worth more than all of europes money combined. Norway has 7 000 000 000 000kr in it's fund, and it's seen as incredibly big. The US infrastructure alone is worth 220 000 000 000. It's bullshit and propaganda. The US is richer than everyone.
>>66560538
whops 220 000 000 000 000kr.
>Estonia leagues above US
ppffwahahaha
>>66560751
nigga
>>66559157
>im le special, everyone but me is a sheeple
>why cant the sheeple see my le specialness and le enlightenment
>>66560751
I'm starting to fall in love with you, estonia. That gif is hypnotizing us all.
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>>66559157
knowing stuff doesn't matter in America. The people in charge and big businesses just want your money. Everyone spending a lot of time on their computers and phones keeps them from caring about the outside world while being flooded with advertisements and propaganda
>>66560538
Not saying the US isn't rich, but the total value of property is always far in excess of the money supply.
>>66560538
Alot of it is decaying and old. It is going to cost alot of money to renovate.
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>>66559253
It's the Jews
>>66559157
>.8% of the students actually passed the citizenship test
holy shit!
granted I doubt any kids here knows the line of kings since Harald the first to present either though. My father had to know these things by heart, that's way over 1000 years of history lol.
He was a bit pissed over they had to memorize this him self, I learned it though but that wasn't forced upon me
>>66561231
I half clicked Photoshop to do this, but then though meh
>>66562034
Yeah, but still, if it costs 10 000 000 000 000 to fix, you'd still have value of 210 000 000 000 000kr. It's an insane amount of money.
>>66562592
But, if you killed Rothchild, who has 700 000 000 000kr, you wouldn't have a problem. You know, the main jew that controls America. Funny that 1 man has more money than most countries.
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