DUMBING US DOWN

Dumbing Us Down

Dumbing Us Down

We live in a time of great school crisis is linked with greater social crisis. Our nation ranks at the bottom of nineteen industrialized nations in reading, writing and arithmetic. The world economy of drugs based on our consumption of this product; if we did not buy so many powdered dreams the business would collapse - and schools are an important sales outlet. Our teenage suicide rate is highest in the world, as well as suicide, child-rich children, for the most part, not the poor. In Manhattan, seventy percent of all new cases of marriage, less than five years. It is not so sure.

This is a big crisis that we are witnessing in our schools is linked to greater social crisis in the society. We seem to have lost its identity. Children and elderly people penned and locked in the business world, according to the degree without precedent, no one talks to him more, and without children and old people mixing in daily life, the community has no future and no past, only a continuous present. In fact, the name of "community" hardly applies to the way we interact with each other. We live in a network, rather than communities, and all that I know lonely because of it. The school is the main actor in this tragedy, because it is a major player in the expanding gulf between social classes. Using the school as a sorting mechanism, we seemed to be on the way to the creation of the caste system, complete with untouchables who wander through subway trains and begging, sleeping in the streets.

He noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my twenty-five years of study: it is the school and education is increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes ...