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On what's wrong with our educational system
8.23.08
Yesterday's Wall Street Journal ran "When Learning Has a Limit", an incisive review of Charles Murray's new book, Real Education, which seems aptly to analyze everything that's wrong with the American educational system.
To paraphrase: that it inefficiently channels ALL students towards liberal-arts college instead of taking a realistic view of an individual's strengths and abilities and tailoring an education for that person.
So that, for example, those whose best chances for success are in the trades, e.g., auto mechanics, plumbers, electricians, be directed towards courses of studies that would best equip them for those highly lucrative professions, rather than wasting their time and public money on dumbed-down efforts to make scholars out of them.
Murray apparently also argues that by doing the latter, those who are future scholars and leaders are getting short-shrifted in secondary education, as anyone with a bright student in an American high school where self-esteem is the highest priority (well above merit) well knows.
10/22/2009
You seem to have completely missed the reviewer's criticisms of Charles Murray's book. The reviewer does NOT agree with Murray's opinions on education. And yet you call the review "insightful," and you say that Murray's book "seems aptly to analyze everything that's wrong with the American educational system." I'm not sure how you can praise both when the two are in disagreement. You may want to read the article again.
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