Does the public-school system just need modifications?
Last week, Matt Phelps shared well-thought-out ideas for improving what he has found to be a clearly failing educational system. But his suggestions assume that the system just needs modifications — start the educational process earlier and institute a two-year internship program in the late teens — and not a major analysis of just how the system is now constructed, and how that may explain the problems so existent. A recent article in Time magazine by Joe Klein illustrates well the ubiquitous ignorance that now exists about the cause and effect of the decline of this country’s educational system. It makes clear the well-generalized American myopia that is widely promulgated. The article, “America from the Road,” trumpets its attempt to disclose “the big issues our politicians aren’t talking about.” Klein provides the best possible example of just what is ignored in U.S. society. He notes, as Phelps did, that there is nearly universal dismay with the state of our educational system. Fe
