I’m currently reading a book by Ben Sasse called “The Vanishing American Adult”. Basically it’s about how, despite spending more per student than almost anywhere else in the world, our institutionalized education system continues to churn out high school graduates who can’t decipher the instructions on a package of raman noodles and have no clue about how our country (much less our world) came to be. And those are the ones who DO graduate, in many places less than 60%.
(Thankfully, they can all quote the results of every episode of The Voice.) Yet despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, our politicians continue to insist that all we need is more spending and we will surely get better results. They believe it, so it must be true.
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