We sure hear a lot of negative talk about our school systems in the United States. We hear complaints that people are graduating from high school who cannot read. And sometimes the way that America votes you have to wonder if everyone has just turned off their brain? Not long ago, I was having this conversation with a friend of mine at Starbucks, and he said that if we don’t have smart people in our society and civilization, it will crumble in the next 20 years, because there will be no one to run the place.

He will be retired very soon, and I already am. It is an interesting conundrum, and he might have a point as all the baby boomers are now retiring. Then he made the funniest comment I’ve heard all week; “hopefully in the future there will be fewer stupid people,” and we both had a laugh. His answer was to work harder and pump more money into our school system, but if our school systems are producing people who are less than the intellectual level we need, then we have a problem right now, and throwing more good money after bad, may not be the right way to go.

If a nation has a dummying down effect it can no longer be the lead nation in the world like we are in the United States, we have to push forward into the future, develop new technologies and strengthen the flows of our civilization. That can only be done with smart people. So, whereas, we had a good laugh over his comments, the reality is hopefully we do get more smarter people in the future and fewer people who are not intellectually challenged. Indeed I hope you please consider all this.