Name That Radical!
Quick! What wild-eyed, harebrained, impractical radical recently made this statement to the press?
The U.S. educational system, K through 12, has essentially failed.
If you guessed co-founder of Intel (and Presidential Medal of Freedom winner) Gordon Moore,you would be right. Here’s the context from the interview:
EET: Craig Barrett [who in May will become Intel’s next chairman, replacing Andrew Grove] has been talking a lot lately about the problems in our educational system. What do you think?
Moore: The U.S. educational system, K through 12, has essentially failed. Our universities seem to be the envy of the world, but even there we are not getting the number of foreign students we used to get. And they tend to go home [after getting a degree], whereas they used to stay.
Yet Another Reason to Homeschool™, I think.
To be fair, Moore is not actually endorsing homeschooling here. He’s “just” diagnosing the existing K-12 system as fundamentally broken.
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