Albert Lynd published his marvelous book attacking the Education Establishment in 1953. He is one of our smartest education critics. He explains each weird thing the professors are doing.

The bad news is that everything he talks about is still going on today. The dumbing down of the public schools was already half-accomplished 60 years ago when he wrote "Quackery in the Public Schools." But the experts in charge never let up.

I just posted a compilation of 18 quotes from his book, here: http://www.examiner.com/article/quackery-the-public-schools-a-tribute

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Lynd analyzes in particular how the professors turned education into a lucrative business for themselves. They created thousands of more or less empty courses and then required all prospective teachers to take them, not just in college and grad school but during summers and on weekends forever thereafter.

All of this bombast displaced real education in the lives of teachers, who were thereby prepared to displace real education in the lives of their students.

If everyone in education read this book, I suspect our problems would disappear. Everybody would be keenly aware of bad practice and try to avoid it. The people committing malpractice would be so self-conscious they would cease-and-desist. Well, I can dream.

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You can buy this book cheaply on Amazon. (Please see my review. )

http://www.amazon.com/Quackery-Public-Schools-Albert-Lynd/product-r...