July 2007 Blog Posts (1)

A recurring rant on my Inklings blog is my huffing about the "dumbing down of America" -- a downward spiral in our culture caused by an educational system that graduates students who can't solve simple math problems, can't write a decent sentence and who can't comprehend what they read unless it's written in 4th-grade English. This may sound like nothing more than intellectual snobbery, but the truth is that the corrosive effects of this “dumbing… Continue