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Article #624921Re: 1958 Crisis in education
From: hanc...
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 20:24
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 20:24
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On Sunday, July 15, 2018 at 3:00:06 AM UTC-4, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote: > The measure of the quality of an educational system isn't the peak, > it is the average and the bottom. Some of the determined and brilliant will > always succeed. Good point. In earlier years, educators didn't really care much about the bottom. They sought to teach them basic literacy, some responsibility, and tradecraft, but they expected them to drop out in high school. One bit challenge in education, then and now, is the fact that "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink". Many schools over the years offered pretty good academic, vo-tech, and commercial programs, and students who took them were well prepared upon graduation. But the students had to be motivated and work at them. In 1948 LIFE studied the Allentown, PA, school system, which was considered good. https://books.google.com/books?id=DEYEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA10&dq=life%20may%2010%2C%201948&pg=PA117#v=onepage&q&f=false
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