Posted 2:57 PM by Gene

Jay of the WaPost writes:

Our real problem is the bottom 30 percent of U.S. schools, those in urban and rural communities full of ­low-­income children. We have seen enough successful schools in such areas to know that many of those children are just as capable of being great scientists, doctors, and executives as suburban children are.

In the name of counterintuition we get silly, stupid writing. What constitutes a "great" scientist? Or a "great" doctor? Or especially a "great" executive? See, but hacks don't have to think, they can just write. Education must be about creating more technocrats. Dubya decreed it. Jay believes it. Getting the bottom 30 percent of U. S. schools up to par merely means more technocrats. And not everyone has the cranial wherewithal to be "great". Using "great" is just as bad as the self-serving inflated numbers of new-minted Chinese and Indian technocrats this typist complains about. Dammit, we have enough Steve Greers. Modern America lacks a soul; factory-producing millions who are supersmart in school and become "GREAT" technocrats is the answer to the wrong question.

I expect better from The Wilson Quarterly; I guess we can stop expecting.