Fix public education
In other words, if only 20 percent of our children receive the education needed, then 80 percent of our children will not be adequately prepared for the world in which they will live. Full Story »
Posted by H. Bryan BrooksbankReview
This is as good as we ordinarily see in newspaper coverage. The article is honest in its portrayal of the state of schooling and the ideas are a bit more imaginative than the standard treatment provides. BUT, no one is actually talking about the fundamental cause of our grand malaise. We made a massive wrong turn with compulsory schooling and there is simply no fix for an inherently flawed approach that is misanthropic in so many ways that I wouldn't even begin to try to delineate the ways here.
As stated above, it is a delusion to hope that there is some kind of fix for compulsory schooling after well over a century of phenomenal failures - yes, I know, we put a man on the freaking moon - and your point is? There is a wealth of great literature on this topic, beginning with Tolstoy's essays on education, which is reflexively ignored by the media, because the myths are too hard to overcome and one has to actually study and think and accept the hard realities of facing the alternative (no compulsory schooling & taking the issues of education seriously, finally). Obama will make little difference. Give it another three of four generations. Good luck.