A 1950's Army Motto and America Today

I read an old Army saying from the 1950s the other day, and it made me think of just how different, and not necessarily in a good way, the Army  - and America - is today. The saying goes:

"If it moves, salute it.

If it doesn't move, pick it up.

If you can't pick it up, paint it."

A Treatise on Education, or How I think We Should Fix it.

Having been a teacher either in secondary or post-secondary education for eleven years, I have seen the good, the bad, and the ugly when it comes to the American educational system. I started out as a mere graduate teaching assistant (GTA) while I was working on my Master’s degree, way back in 1992 - now that dates me! All told, I was a GTA for the year it took me to get my Master’s and then again later for three years during my Ph.D. studies (but that was as an English GTA).