tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776665703590564248.post5942620003342343812..comments2024-03-27T01:57:19.605-04:00Comments on Return To Excellence: The Final Four of LearningReturnToExcellence.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18149859814999976879noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776665703590564248.post-50676506973387541802011-03-25T00:11:02.899-04:002011-03-25T00:11:02.899-04:00How times have changed. In my generation, parents...How times have changed. In my generation, parents wanted their children to go to college for a good education. Today they send them to college for sports and money they can earn playing sports after graduation.<br /><br />Why bother to learn? - play football (college pays your expenses) and you live a good life. If college has a good team, they receive large donations from corporations to help with expenses.<br /><br />Call it luck, but if it wasn't for people like Lise Meitner, unappreciated female mathematical physicist, who did testing and experiments regarding nuclear fission our progress would have been appreciably slowed from what is was and is. She lived in Germany and Hitler did not have faith in people who had brains. She knew her number would be coming up for death - somehow escaped to America.<br /><br />People like Albert Einstein, developer of theory of relativity, also somehow got out of Germany.<br /><br />In 1939, he and other scientists wrote FDR a letter saying an atomic bomb, if it could be developed would save lives in a war. Because of this letter FDR authorized the "Manhattan Project" that developed the atomic bomb during World War II under the command of Lieutenant General Leslie Groves JR. Einstein was not involved in the project. The rest is history. BTW, letter to FDR mentioned Germany was also conducting studies and experiments on nuclear weapons.<br /><br />Remember, brains win out all the time for major projects - not sports.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com