Students select majors BEFORE they’ve learned grammar or logic or rhetoric, let alone arithmetic, algebra and plane geometry.
In my first year of parochial high school, I learned the beginnings of Aristotelian LOGIC. The sine qua non of education. And taught now mostly in law school in the slowest, most sadistic and humiliating way possible (socratic method).
The jellified brains of too many teenagers come from the lack of intellectual rigor of their equally jellified teachers. Spare me a teacher educated in the 1960′s where students got course credit for participating in political demonstrations.
There are millions of people who don’t know what evidence or proof is. The best watch shows like CSI, HOUSE, NUMB3RS, BONES, and that’s as close as many come to real science and math. I think there’s a hunger for real learning, but so long as the teachers’ unions protect bad teachers, things will not get better. I blame the cowardly Republicans for fearin to take the admittedly fearsome NEA and AFT on.
