Does it bother anyone else that there are so many spelling and grammar errors in all these questions & answers

Question

I would have added a question mark had I had one more character to work with.
Seriously, is this an indication of how well ( or unwell ) our education system is working? Is it the evidence of the "dumbing down" of our children? This is way more frightening to me than the alleged bird flu, or the real terrorists.

Answer 1

yus that's wye aye uze spell-cheque awn evree lettur eye tipe

I really do not believe that you needed the query character because I do not think that you are really asking a question, and certainly not whether anybody is bothered by bad spelling or grammar.
I think you are, from the way that you phrased your entry, making a statement about your opinion that the education system is failing, and about how this makes you feel.
I tend to sympathize with you. But surely you realize that the purpose of the education system is not to turn out people who have skills and can think for themselves. No indeed not. The purpose of any modern education system is first and formost to teach people to sit down and shut up. If that can be accomplished in the first ten to fifteen years then there is a chance that these people can be trained to do simple tasks, and be useful citizens and good voters. In fact, except for an extremely limited need for professional engineers and doctors the rest of the population needs to be able to do little more than tie thier shoe laces and not dribble food down their faces when they eat, and this could be taught in less than six years of schooling. However good citizenship is very much more difficult to instill. It requires the people to be taught to sit down, shut up,do as you are told and believe in what ever the authorities tell you. This my friend is what you should be afraid of, that the education system works too well, that the facility for critical thought is being indoctrinated out of people all over the world (most especially in North America, Untied Kingdom and Australia). It all seems very Orwellian to me but that is the way it all works. Like growing mushrooms.

Does it bother me, no seems like a good sign, how else are we supposed to be able to compete with two billion starving overseas people who have no education at all.

Answer 2

You know their are alot of people out there who can,t carrie a letter in a sack, but they are smart as a whip.Back in the real old days spelling wasn,t such a big issue,people made history,very great inventors with little or no education. Whats wrong with the world now is every one thinks you have to have a very high education to make any thing of yourself, that's not true. The problem is they just want you to have a little piece of paper to prove you went to school to do certain things. When if people would use some of their common sense they could get a lot more done than they think. Read your history books and see for your self.

Answer 3

In the last 5 or 6 months that I have been a member, this very same question has been asked at least 4 times a day!

Answer 4

The worst part of the truth in the question here is that there is a "check spelling" box just above the right hand corner of this answer box. Even a ten year old should be able to spell nuclear, or neuclier. (foniks.....)

Answer 5

no because u cant expect ppl to be perfect all the time and its just a word so what if they type it wrong u would know what the word was if ur not a complete idiot and plus its just yahoo answers y care about errors?

Answer 6

Nope don't bother me at all,it's supposed to be fun go with the flow, have fun 1 hour a day

Answer 7

I totally agree with you. I can't stand all the spellign errors. What bothers me the most is the incorrect use of there, their and they're.

Answer 8

I use grammar (or lack of) the way i want to. It's not cuz i've been taught badly, it's just cuz i'm lazy

Answer 9

UM I ain shure I understeed the qurstian? Umm so I well red it agen and agen....

Yes, it is very disturbing.