Though if ya ask ME, I think this sad bit of "Who knew?" information says a lot MORE about U.S. PARENTS and THEIR lack of instilling in their OWN kids an "educational work ethic", than it does about the teachers! YEP! I hope you folks realize that our "American culture" has always somehow perversely "prided" itself on being anti-intellectual!
(...and yep, John...here we go AGAIN!!!!)
If you would read some A.A. Stagg the father of modern education you would know how and why we are where are in education here. As far as anti intellectualism goes, it is a bit of hyperbole created by Hollyweird that had become true. We didn't become the most advanced nation years ago by choosing ignorance the way we have these days.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
