The system -- the American one, at least -- is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet.
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50% of the high school graduates in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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The elective system ... offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canaps of knowledge and never had their fill.
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I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.
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(on the U.S) You wonder about a country where the bombs are smarter than the high-school graduates. At least the bombs can find Iraq on a map.
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If nobody dropped out of eighth grade, who would hire the college graduates?
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A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.
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Nursing is a calling, a dedication to a profession. It's really rewarding to walk in a hospital and see graduates of your class working there.
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