Three Reasons Why Our Education System Won't be Fixed on its Own.

Three Reasons Why Our Education System Won't be Fixed on its Own.

The modern American education system is trying really hard. It wants to be better. It really does. I mean, seriously, there are hundreds of thousands of teachers, from pre-school on up to the college level, working every day to do the best they can to educate our next generation. But it has so, many, things that are getting in the way of change and improvement that it seems pretty hopeless. I am not being pessimistic. I am just calling it for what it is. Here's the first
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The Visionary vs the Realist: The Careful Path We Tread

I've always been pretty practical. I mean, I am a builder. I have a business. I have a family. All of those things will ground you in a different, but very profound way. If you are any one of those things, you know what I am talking about. You understand how people without children don't know what it is to care for someone for years, and 'get' that commitment. If you aren't a builder, you can't fully comprehend the focus it takes to put a whole building together, and
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