Dear Dr. Dobzyniak,

Allen. With regards to your question, what are the reasons for the basic failure of education today, there are several.

Recently I have put a few of my comments on my website detailing my thoughts on these matters as well as spending five hours last week with a senior editor from Time Magazine from New York. He asked me practically the same type of questions that you asked.

The number one and foremost reason is that the ivy tower elites, the educrates have taken the educational control away from the teacher and given it to those that he teaches, the students.

The second reason is the ridiculousness of our education college’s where they constantly teach that every child is an individual and then give every new teacher a stylus book and tell them to teach according to the calendar. You must teach such and such on such and such a day in such and such a way.

Third, we have taken the “privilege of failure” away from our students. In today’s educational soup everybody must pass. Nobody can fail. As you and I know some of the greatest life lessons that a person learns is through failure.

Allen, Keep the faith. I think we will prevail even though our nation is in a very precarious time.


-russ