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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.

As somebody who visits countless schools, I see firsthand the dire situation our educational system faces.

To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.

I'm not saying standardized tests are the worst ever, but there's an in-between and I don't think we're there yet. That's what I mean when I say I have an issue with it. There's no way a kid can learn in a class with 40 to 45 people. I had the power to get out of that system and pursue things that I wanted to do and I did that.

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.

We are in the middle of an education recession.

The failures that we have are sometimes expensive educations.

When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

The school curriculum today, particularly American history, is a shame.