Educational failures I was just reading this [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/20/the-uss-greatest-danger-isnt-china-its-much-closer-to-home] fairly recent Guardian article by Robert Reich [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Reich], a Jewish but not very sectarian American thinker who has held major political appointments. One line that struck me was his assertion that 80% of American college students are unable to comprehend a news magazine. Not a treatise by … Continue reading Diary Blog, 7 July, 2021, including a few thoughts about education