Education (Centrist columnists)
Should it be "No Child Left Behind"? Is mandatory testing helping or hurting? Education is as hot a topic as ever.
Balderdashing Education Bashing
by John Kozy (centrist liberal libertarian)
Published: November 14, 2009
When Calvin Coolidge said "The business of America is business," he and very few if any others knew just how deep this sentiment would sink into the American consciousness. Now it seems apparent that the way business thinks has muscled every other kind of thought process out of the American mind. The unfortunate result is that if no business solution exists to an American ailment, it festers into an incurable American disease.
Dumb, Dumber, and Dumbest in Higher Education
by John Kozy (centrist liberal libertarian)
Published: October 23, 2009
As an elderly, former university professor, I am deeply anguished whenever I come across shameful academic writing. Such writing not only exposes the inability of the writer but it exhibits the extent of decline in American university teaching and is a symptom of a decadent civilization. Institutions that employ these writers have abandoned the classical educational ideals of truth, goodness, and beauty for belief, greed, and exploitation. And not only Americans but the whole world is paying a horrid price for it.
Universal, Quality Education: “Free Is the Enemy of the Affordable”
by Ohm (centrist)
Published: March 29, 2009
I am opposed to making people start their life with (educational) debt, and stay indebted forever. But going in the other extreme - where the State takes it all - is equally reprehensible. More than that, it is dangerous - for it creates the thought that "Government has taken care of everything". An "easy does it" society is a stagnating society, at risk of uproot, at least being left behind, by others.
Education was promoted from the earliest times in the U.S.
by Kamala Sarup (centrist)
Published: September 29, 2008
Since many settlers had strong Christian religious beliefs, a rudimentary education was necessary to read and understand the Bible. That education turned out to be useful in work as well as business pursuits.
Centrist Education
by Kishi (centrist)
Published: February 18, 2008
With the election in full swing, the education of our children is a huge issue. I am endeavoring to present a realistic approach to the problem that can work for everyone.
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