Yes, I am very sorry about that - but I must agree to 123jack.
The mentioned educational incompetence - enhanced by rapidly decreasing motivation - is a direct consequence of the priorities which have been developped within out society (Money, success, long vacation, less work,...)
And the situation is even worse because on the other side of the desk (pupils, young people, students) it is not seen and realized that learning is and must be (from time to time) a hard job! Many of these young people are not curious anymore - instead they spend their time with TV, mobile phoning, twitter, facebook, computer games, internet surfing and similar "actions". (But they don't act anymore, they only react).
Sometimes - as a comunication engineer - I feel a bit guilty.
And - as far as the RF problem is concerned - most peaople think that "analog is out" and "digital is in"! And indeed, it seems so when you study the technical publications: 99% of the contributions are dealing with digital TV, digital books, i-phones, mobile internet,.... Why? Because it sells! That's sufficient.
Perhaps - and hopefully - I am too pessimistic.