Then you consider yourself enlightened.
Then you consider yourself enlightened.
I consider myself fortunate to have attended the public schools when more often than not one received a first class education.
I am not going to bother posting the data on where American students rank in relation to other countries as the data is easily obtained and it is dismal.
“Projects” such as the one referenced in the article have their place in education, but one has to wonder what place such “projects” have among the many school systems of countries ranked ahead of the United States.
The irony is that those countries which have the best secondary schools do not have the quality of higher education that the United States does.
That is why so many of those students end up attending our universities.
It is the foreign students who are succeeding in those fields which offer the best opportunities to quickly recoup the costs of attending university.
It used to be that our youth were assured of a certain amount of success if they worked hard, played by the rules, and got an education.
What now passes for an education has dubious value although its is exorbitantly expensive.
I value my education and the three degrees that document that education.
That said, our educational system is not doing an adequate job serving our youth.
Youth with ability and motivation might be better served to look to alternatives to an educational system which may put them into a lifetime of debt.