Perhaps it's not the educational system which is getting worse, but the
clay they have to mold?

Mike H.

On 6/17/07, Rich <rgrazia1@rochester.rr.com> wrote:
> I don't know about the US having the worst education system in the world.  I
> have been teaching college for some years and the students that have come to
> me in the last decade are an embarrassment.  Most of them have not developed
> basic reading and writing skills.  The can pronounce the words they read
> (for the most part) but they have some difficulty in ascertaining the
> meaning of what they have read.  The essay assignments are in general a
> disaster.  But in every class there are a few students who are brilliant and
> that is the redeeming value of teaching.
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