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Article #624922Re: 1958 Crisis in education
From: J. Clarke
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 02:29
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 02:29
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On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 13:24:21 -0700 (PDT), hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote: >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. And now we disdain vo-tech as "the dummy track" and don't have "commercial" programs at all in most schools. > >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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