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Bill Gates Proclaims US High Schools Obsolete

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-coulda-told-you-that dept.

bryan sent us a story about Bill Gates' take on US High Schools. He says 'America's high schools are obsolete. By obsolete, I don't just mean that they're broken, flawed or underfunded, though a case could be made for every one of those points. By obsolete, I mean our high schools even when they're working as designed cannot teach all our students what they need to know today.'"

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  1. Bill Gates is right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    CmdrTaco went to high school and he still can't even edit Slashdot properly.

  2. Just a stab in the dark... by D-Cypell · · Score: 5, Funny

    This critique doesnt happen to co-incide with the release of "Microsoft US high school 2005" does it?

  3. Re:I agree! by SnapShot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps the solution is to stop referring children into grades. Rather there could be the concept of Groups. Alphas would be the future researchers and intellectual workers of the world. Betas would be the middle managers and skilled craftspeople. Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons would form the broad class of moderately skilled to unskilled labor. With a gramme of soma this structure could certainly work.

    The problem is in trying to identify the various groups as young as possible (perhaps even before birth). Hmmmm....

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