John O. Andersen

Higher Education

An excellent article. Mr. Leef hits the nail right on the head.

http://www.popecenter.org/clarion/2000/jul-aug/highered.html

A snippet to whet your appetite:

>>Our government education system has always produced a large number of
people who have neither the interest nor the ability to do college-level
work, and its imploding standards are increasing those numbers each year. In
the days before nearly universal "access" to higher education, poorly
educated high schoolers simply got jobs, or if they tried college, they
probably flunked out. But things have changed. Driven by the belief that
everyone should go to college, politicians and college officials have
lowered costs and standards to the point where virtually anyone with the
slightest desire to attend college can.

There are still islands of excellence in higher education, but they are
surrounded by and eroding into an ocean of mediocrity. As Ernest van den
Haag wrote in his essay "Gresham's Law in Education" more than 25 years ago,
"In the process of trying to educate the inept, the education of those who
might benefit will necessarily be impaired while very little is gained by
those supposed to be helped."<<

Enjoy,

John Andersen
http://unconventional.go.to