Learners

摘要

The goal of public education in the United States is to create well-rounded citizens, not to function as an institution of job training. To focus public education on workplace skill shortages is to deny the idealism of our Constitution and founding fathers, to shortchange our youth, and ultimately, ourselves. While some countries, Germany for example, send students into vocational and college-prep tracks, we in the United States have resisted that approach and have taken a more egalitarian tact.