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Art, The point was that the article assumed the basic purpose of education was to prepare people for jobs. An article some years ago might have carried the title "Our Schools Have Kept Us Free"--which, in fact, is the title of an article by Henry Steele Commager. I think that is totally wrongheaded and until recently so did most people. The emphasis was much more on preparing people to be active citizens in a democracy. American workers have long been either the most productive or among the most productive in the world. If schools are failing, it's because they're failing to prepare people for rich emotional, social, and community lives after work. Yesterday, one person came to defend our house against termites. Another to correct a problem in our satellite TV reception. Both were, I guess, in their mid-twenties. That is to say, of an age that schools could not possibly have prepared them to use the technologies that they were using to provide their services. JB
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