Friday, September 7, 2007
Let's Talk About College
One of the things that bothered me the most was a passage from Michael Moore's Idiot Nation. He talks about once you get a degree from a top school such as Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth or Stanford that you are set for life. However, at these schools, seventy percent of the students had not heard of the Voting Rights act or Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. These are supposed to be the top schools in the nation and they can't recall high school material. I'm not saying i remember everything from high school, but i like to think i retained a fair amount. These are our leaders of major corporations and government that can barely pass a high school test. Something wrong with this picture? I think so.
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This is a little frightening isn't it. I think, as a nation, that we expect more from our college graduates. I certainly expect more from you.
that is messed up. You'd think someone who went to such a "respected" school, they would remember what got them there.
this just goes to show that the "best" students are not that much different from the rest of us.
yeah that is pretty scary that the future leaders of our nation wouldn't have the knowledge to pass a high school history test
Interesting to know.
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