The Death of Learning: How American Education Has Failed Our Students and What to Do About It: A Conversation with John Agresto

[basquebromance]

Why are the liberal arts, which the founders believed were of vital importance for the American project of self-government, in such radical decline today? What reforms are needed for their revival?

the liberal arts are dying because most Americans perceive these fields to be increasingly siloed and irrelevant to the modern economy.

 

[Rambunctious]

Well they do well in English class learning pronouns.....

 

[basquebromance]

we need an AMERICAN learning system, that teaches AMERICA about AMERICA