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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (16603)	7/3/2002 6:06:44 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

"American education is in ruins. Students can’t read, write, add or think. Schools are plagued by gangs and mindless violence. Parents who can afford to, send their children to private schools, in the desperate hope of finding sane teaching but often find these schools beset by the same problems. More than ever, employers are left to pick up the pieces, training school graduates in the basic skills necessary for working life. Countless solutions have been proposed to save American education: computers, school uniforms, a voucher system, single-sex classrooms, school prayer. But none of these “solutions” will help, because they ignore the fundamental cause of the problem: the acceptance of false ideas, which leads to bad teaching and bad curricula. The real purpose of education is to teach students how to think, so they can lead productive, independent lives. Our education leaders, however, believe that knowledge is impossible and that truth equals majority opinion. Thus, our children are made to surrender their minds to the will of the group and are presented with a hash of frivolous, unsystematically organized topics. To save American education, we need a new, rational curriculum: Out with car maintenance, “self-esteem workshops” and every other politically correct time-waster, and back to a subject-matter curriculum of literature, math, science and history. Read on to discover the relationship between basic philosophic ideas and current education problems, including school violence, gangs, illiteracy, and others. This Web site argues that only with the right ideas — in the form of a rational curriculum — do we have a chance of correcting these problems." education.aynrand.org