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Showing posts with label dumb down. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dumb down. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Too much education, too little learning
Black economist Walter Williams hits the nail on the head again:
Citing the research of AEI scholar Charles Murray's 2008 book "Real Education," Vedder says: "The number going to college exceeds the number capable of mastering higher levels of intellectual inquiry. This leads colleges to alter their mission, watering down the intellectual content of what they do." In other words, colleges dumb down courses so that the students they admit can pass them
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