In the early days of North America, society valued
education
and learning, for example by giving higher education a good
deal of public money. Now that attitude has been lost and the
support it engendered is fading; in a few generations there
will be nothing left. Then ... third world {status}
Hey, don't be so certain, Heisenberg <g>.
Actually I agree with you.
Just put in a few if..then or else clauses.
Experimental proof of the importance of education could be the
fact that predictive grants for prison funding are often based on
low test scores recorded in the schools a few years earlier.
John A.