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$\"\"$ How many millions of kids returned to school this week in the U.S. alone?<\/p>\n

More than 55,000,000 from what I\u2019ve read.<\/p>\n

Is school fulfilling its purpose for them?<\/p>\n

I well remember the late 1950s when the big issue was\u2014are Soviet kids getting a better science and math education that Americans?\u00a0 This was a big problem.\u00a0 After all, they beat us into space.<\/p>\n

The curricula changes resulting did nothing to improve literacy, not to mention productivity, citizenship and character.\u00a0 Yet what is education for?\u00a0 To set a child up with a way to succeed in life, right?<\/p>\n

After a lot of speculative programs and \u201cmodern\u201d techniques, we are still way behind, ranking (internationally) 14 in reading, 25 in math and 17 in science, behind such countries as South Korea, Finland, Canada, and Japan, which are in the top five in all three.<\/p>\n

Yet our future as a culture depends upon our ability to learn.<\/p>\n

Education, unfortunately, is very \u201cexam\u201d oriented.\u00a0 In an article called \u201cEducation<\/a>,\u201d L. Ron Hubbard<\/a> discusses what such an orientation does to our children\u2019s future, and offers a paradigm that would give us kids who can not only \u201cget good grades,\u201d but who can also think and do enough with their education to dig us out of the situations we have created (or at least failed to solve) as a nation, both internally and as part of the world community.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"