Many students ace math, English and science without problems. But these same students fail to pay their bills on time after graduation.
It’s a pandemic. The American education system has been decried for decades now — our students don’t learn enough foreign language, math scores are too low compared to our developed counterparts, etc. The complaints are as cliche as they are true. But the most under-represented parts of our education system seem to be in finance, nutrition and critical thought.
Critical thought, in the form of classical studies in Greek and Latin and a thorough analysis of those texts, was once a pillar of education. Now, it is all but absent in nearly all high schools — save high-quality private ones — and derided in colleges as a waste of time or a lofty, philosophical endeavor.
Because I’ve no background in nutrition, I will not address it at length, but it will suffice to say that the literally massive state of American weight stands — or rather, hobbles — as a testament to the lack of self-control and nutritional information with which students enter the world.
Financially, the problem seems primarily two-fold.
First, students are uninterested — both in finance as well as the contracts we regularly agree to. The “South Park” episode,