http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2007/08/10-questions-for-greg-clark/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2007/08/10-questions-for-greg-clark/#comment-6944 Don Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:46:23 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2007/08/28/10-questions-for-greg-clark/#comment-6944 That's exactly my point. Is it the schools, is it parents, is it social expectations, is it TV and video games, is it the mass of immigrants dragging down school populations? Ask, and you'll get many answers. John Taylor Gatto says, like Clark, that school writing by teenagers in 1910 was more erudite than that of today. Certainly, I've seen samples of that, but he doesn't fully subtract the effects of the offset produced by the reality that in those days it was a very select population whose kids were in school at 14. That’s exactly my point. Is it the schools, is it parents, is it social expectations, is it TV and video games, is it the mass of immigrants dragging down school populations? Ask, and you’ll get many answers.
John Taylor Gatto says, like Clark, that school writing by teenagers in 1910 was more erudite than that of today. Certainly, I’ve seen samples of that, but he doesn’t fully subtract the effects of the offset produced by the reality that in those days it was a very select population whose kids were in school at 14.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2007/08/10-questions-for-greg-clark/#comment-6943 razib Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:00:05 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2007/08/28/10-questions-for-greg-clark/#comment-6943 <i>One wonders what Clark makes of the current U.S. situation where American college graduates with every socio-economic edge are displaced by Ukrainian and other third-world graduates, and many can't even find their closest public library on a map.</i> college is the new high school. sort of. One wonders what Clark makes of the current U.S. situation where American college graduates with every socio-economic edge are displaced by Ukrainian and other third-world graduates, and many can’t even find their closest public library on a map.
college is the new high school. sort of.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2007/08/10-questions-for-greg-clark/#comment-6942 Don Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:30:07 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2007/08/28/10-questions-for-greg-clark/#comment-6942 What a fascinating treatise. One wonders what Clark makes of the current U.S. situation where American college graduates with every socio-economic edge are displaced by Ukrainian and other third-world graduates, and many can't even find their closest public library on a map. You can (and many do) blame generations of public school conditioning; is that the whole answer? What a fascinating treatise. One wonders what Clark makes of the current U.S. situation where American college graduates with every socio-economic edge are displaced by Ukrainian and other third-world graduates, and many can’t even find their closest public library on a map.
You can (and many do) blame generations of public school conditioning; is that the whole answer?

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