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Real-World Advice for the Young
Our country spends $900 billion a year on education of all kinds–or about 8% of GDP. What do we get for it? Less and less. Our K-12 schooling has slipped out of the world’s top ten ranking. Our colleges are supposedly the best, but a deeper look into this claim is scary. This reputation rides too much on America’s position in science, engineering, medicine, law and business schools–the paths of rigor.
Meanwhile, the softer path–the liberal arts curriculum in American universities–is a joke. It has become an asylum for haters, anarchists and cranks. Too strong a statement? Ask Harvard’s president, Lawrence Summers. Or Google the name Ward Churchill and take a look.
We owe our young people more than this. At the least we owe them a set of "road rules" for the real world.
Rich Karlgaard
Full Story: http://forbes.com/forbes/2005/0411/041.html
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