True, we need quality education. But efforts to expand the quantity of education and educators here in the US have resulted in lower quality everywhere. Look at the steep degradation of NYC public schools over the last hundred years despite receiving ever increasing funds and benefits. See Harvard and other higher ed dropping merit requirements at all levels and being embroiled in plagiarism scandals.
Sometimes less is more. What was originally meant to help the <5% of the non-elite youth who were intellectually gifted or uniquely driven has mutated into a destructive-for-all-parties incentive pushed on 50+% of the population to follow. Quality of output requires quality of input, so returning to merit standards is a must.
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True, we need quality education. But efforts to expand the quantity of education and educators here in the US have resulted in lower quality everywhere. Look at the steep degradation of NYC public schools over the last hundred years despite receiving ever increasing funds and benefits. See Harvard and other higher ed dropping merit requirements at all levels and being embroiled in plagiarism scandals.
Sometimes less is more. What was originally meant to help the <5% of the non-elite youth who were intellectually gifted or uniquely driven has mutated into a destructive-for-all-parties incentive pushed on 50+% of the population to follow. Quality of output requires quality of input, so returning to merit standards is a must.