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> Recently I witnessed a shocking demonstration by a new, English-speaking,
> college graduate. I donXt normally talk about my writing with colleagues at
> work X there isnXt time X but one intelligent youngster asked me a question
> that I could most easily answer by showing him one of my essays. He could
> not read it. I mean, he could sound out the words that he knew, skipping
> the words he didn't know, but he could not make sense of the sentences.
> After watching his ordeal for five painful minutes, I verbally gave him the
> message encoded in the English language that he could not read. He believes
> that he is educated, by the way, because he has a college degree.
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Via Jerry Pournelle, [1] Literacy [2]

All a college degree shows is that you are trainable to jump through hoops
(okay, with Yale you learn to jump through flaming hoops that impress
everyone, but you are still jumping through hoops and aren't necessarily
edumakated). And yes, the educational system here is bad.

For some reason, the fact that sheep are easily lead and wolves are not keeps
floating through my mind …

[1] http://www.jerrypournelle.com/
[2] http://www.lewrockwell.com/klassen10.html

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