Wednesday, March 28, 2018

How Ignorant We Are

Here's a question for you: In 1950, would it have been possible for anyone to know all of the goods and services that we would have at our disposal 50 years later? For example, who would have thought that we'd have cellphones, Bluetooth technology, small powerful computers, LASIK and airplanes with 525-passenger seating capacity? This list could be extended to include thousands of goods and services that could not have been thought of in 1950.

Compounding our ignorance is the fact that much of what we think we know is not true.

Years ago, experts argued that increased K-12 spending and lower pupil-teacher ratios would boost students' academic performance.

Washington, D.C., spends more than $29,000 per student every year, and the teacher-student ratio is 1-to-13; however, its students are among the nation's poorest-performing pupils.

At one time, astronomers considered the size limit for a star to be 150 times the mass of our sun.

Rather than be forced to spend $3,000 a year for health insurance and have $7,000 deducted from your salary for Social Security, you'd prefer investing that money to buy equipment to start a landscaping business.

The worst kind of ignorance is not knowing just how ignorant we are.

https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2018/03/28/how-ignorant-we-are-n2464699 

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