"Only 31 percent of [U.S.] college graduates can read a complex book and extrapolate from it...compared with 40 percent in 1992. Dolores Perin, a reading expert at Columbia University Teachers College, said 'There is a tremendous literacy problem among high school graduates that is not talked about'"

See: Washington Post article (2005-12)

Note that Columbia Teachers College has been a major cause of these problems.

"In a bizarrely offbeat new British advertising campaign, AOL asks if the Internet is a good or a bad thing... the sinister music, dark voiceover and cold imagery leave the viewer with the impression that the Internet will one day lead to humanity's very destruction. Scenes of nuclear holocaust , Hitler, the Ku Klux Klan and Osama bin Laden flash up as we are told that the Internet is a "dangerous weapon."

-- Paul Watson

"Semiotics provides us with a...conceptual framework and a set of methods and terms for use across the full range of signifying practices, which include gesture, posture, dress, writing, speech, photography, film, television and radio...

A working understanding of key concepts in semiotics - including their practical application - can be seen as essential for everyone who wants to understand the complex and dynamic communication ecologies within which we live. Those who cannot understand such environments are in the greatest danger of being manipulated by those who can."

-- "Semiotics for Beginners", David Chandler

"Wilhelm Wundt's thesis laid the philosophical basis for the principles of conditioning later developed by Pavlov...; for schools more oriented toward the socialization of the child than toward the development of intellect; and for the emergence of a society more and more blatantly devoted to the gratification of sensory desires at the expense of responsibility and achievement."

-- "The Leipzig Connection: Sabotage of the US Educational System"