[Louis Foxwell]

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[Louis Foxwell]

American culture isn't a technique. It's a way of seeing the world. It's an attitude, a sense of confidence and optimism, and a determination to tackle the difficult things. It's an art, a history and a literature that comes from these qualities.

Most beautifully stated.

[Monitor]

Suggesting America’s education system is broken is as incorrect as stating that America’s culture is violent.

Broken out by race, it becomes obvious that America’s education system is not broken, nor especially violent.

However, a demographic that makes up less than 13% of the American population is responsible for dragging down our international test scores as well as doubling our violent crime rate.

[MasterGunner01]

Daniel Greenfield has scored a direct hit with this article. He is absolutely correct — and he will be totally rejected by the “educational elites”. After all, these elites know what's good for kids don't they? Ah, no, not really.

[Albion Wilde]

My very best teacher from elementary school, 6th grade, was absolutely adored and obeyed by our class. I my late 40s, I went to see our teacher, who was in her 80s by then. I asked her how she got into teaching. She said her husband transferred to another state and there was an opening, and she applied, even though her education had been in secretarial school (this was a long time ago). She felt unprepared, so she called her father and asked what to do. "He said, 'Just love the children,' so that's what I did," she told me.

I marveled. That's just how we had felt. Yet she had been one of the most challenging and creative teachers ever, who set me, a little girl in the 50s, on my successful career in pharmaceutical R&D publishing, after having failed to get me interested in actually becoming a doctor.

It's also worth noting that she remembered almost every individual from my class, and that we had given her a white Bible when we graduated. Kids could do that then, even though our class was 1/3 Jewish -- after all, the largest part of most Christian Bibles is the Jewish Bible, the Old Testament. She said all the younger women in her family had carried it at their weddings. Those events happened in the educational system in the lost America that I loved.

[Albion Wilde]

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