Posted by
JP on Friday, September 26, 2008 1:17:12 AM
new @ ExileStreet
by Burt Prelutsky [scriptwriter]
Oscar Wilde once described a cynic as a man who knew the price of
everything and the value of nothing. It makes me wonder, were he alive
today, if he would characterize us as a country of cynics or merely
dismiss us as a nation of fools.
I mean, how is it that Americans who lived hard scrabble lives 150
years ago could read, write, do math problems and quote at length from
Shakespeare and the Bible, while today, in spite of “Sesame Street,”
pre-school, Operation Head Start, computers and mind-numbing hours of
homework, millions of youngsters entering college can do none of those
things?
It seems obvious to me that our education system, which costs us billions and billions of dollars, is a wreck. [more @
ExileStreet]