Stupid In America
The 20/20 special report Stupid In America should be yet another wake-up call to the US educational system. China and the EU are going to eat our lunch in the next 25 years. As former teachers, my wife and I got out of teaching because the system isn’t just failing, it’s completely broken….
August 28th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
I am honestly quite anxious to see how education works in Ukraine. I wonder if a 3rd/2nd world country does a better job than we do. I do know they have a 99.7% literacy rate. When I told dad, he said, “So they’re smarter than we are, huh?”
August 28th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Yeah, as far as I can tell, the general population of most industrial countries are far more global in their knowledge and education that the typical US citizen. I think we are much too interested in ourselves to even care. Of course, that means it’s already too late… time to learn Mandarin.