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You're right. That is a problem also in college and jobs. If the children aren't taught how to learn and think, that is a major disadvantage for them. So, these kids get out of school thinking they have the best education in the world, because the teachers tell them so, but find they can barely function in society.

You're right also about the pensions. The pension crisis is up to about $2 trillion in the state governments alone. Add in corporate, union and federal pensions, no telling how much it will be. All the pensions should have been dissolved decades ago and put in private but regulated accounts. Such accounts already exist and have higher rates of return than the pensions do and are no drain on society either. Of course, if people were properly educated in finance and economics, then that probably would have happened and really most of the economic and other problems we see wouldn't exist either.

In a message dated 1/18/2011 4:20:35 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, no_reply writes:

I think in college, the lecture hall sized classes work well for general education courses. The reason for that is because in college, you get out of it what you put in. It ought to be that way in school too. However, part of getting an education in one's pre-college years is learning how to learn. Many kids do not know how to learn. And so in a classroom of 60 students, where the instructor won't have much time to spend with the students, those students are almost certainly doomed to fail.