If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.
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Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.
There's been an unquestionable decline in American culture. The education system is thin on the ground. People don't read as deeply and at length as they used to. And the media has been scattered into so many cable channels.
American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.
We spend a lot of time training and retraining. It's heartbreaking because our education system has failed all of us. And again you go to China, even Mexico, Brazil the education systems are valued - ours are not in this country at K-12 level. It's amazing how that change has transpired in my lifetime.
School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged.
I'm not one of those who thinks the only way to fix what's wrong with American education is to throw more money at it. We also need to do it much better.
American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.
Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools.