Dont be Dumb

As I was reading this article I kept thinking to myself how that is a very bad thing, I believe it has come to the point when foreign counties students know more about our country than we do. I mean who doesn’t know Dick Chaney he was the Vice President of the United States of America! If you asked anyone who Barack Obama is they could probably get it right 95% of the time. For another example, Sarah Palin, they just don’t pay attention until a drastic change is occurring, such as the first black president or the first woman president for the year 2012. We don’t know much I guess about our own history or politics. We are most defiantly the best academic system in the world, even though we are the most advanced and powerful. However, we have the most potential to be a great country and a well-educated country. Asia and India have us beaten in mostly everything academics wise, but if we showed the love they have for knowledge we could really be something. This comes back to Ortega y Gassets point of desire and need for knowledge. Americans have a need for an education, so they can go get a job and start a family. We just need to change that into a desire for knowledge and we could really blossom as a country and as a community.