Aug 3 2012: Seeing as everyone seems to agree that ignorance spreads due to influence from ignorant parents or because of an ineffective educational system, I want to give my opinion as a student (please forgive my grammar, I am not fond of the English language). I think that the educational system in america would need to be entirely redone to fix all the issues we have, but seeing as this would be incredibly difficult, we should most likely start by having the elementary and middle schools teach everything they can on each subject instead of teaching explicitly what is on federal and state examinations like the S.A.T., F.C.A.T., T.A.K.S., and allow children to have discussion type classes (this would be most prevalent in middle school and would hopefully promote an interest to learn on ones own as well). We should also get rid of Tenure, or at the very least make it how it is for university professors (they need to be evaluated as opposed to simply working for 2-3 years).
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