We should rev up computer education, taking it to the lowest grades students are able to start learning it at. Graduates from high school -- many or most of them (however many are able to learn it) -- should be taught how to program.
There might have been a time when those who wanted to achieve much needed to know reading, writing and arithmetic. They still do, of course. But now they need more. Today, many of the routes to success lead through the computer. He who knows the computer has the path to the top.
So, our education should reflect this. It should adapt to the age we live in.
If America wants to be tops in education, this is one thing we can do. No nation, to my knowledge, has really cranked up computer education to the point it is introduced somewhere during the elementary school years, and is mastered in the high school setting.
If you want your people to excel, you teach them the topics they need to know in order to excel. There is hardly person in today's society who would not be further ahead if he or she were able to create their own polished website.
Today, hardly a one of us knows how. I say, make it so most everyone of us knows how, if that can be done.
Utah, you want to lead the nation in education? Do you want your children to grow up to be the nation's leaders in a host of ways? Do this thing. Teach the children as much about computers as you are able to get them to learn.
(Blog updated 12/17/13)
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