Saturday, February 26, 2005

Bill Gates says . . .

American high schools are "obsolete" -- that even when they are working as they are designed to work, they still cannot teach everything that students graduating from high school need to know.

Now y'all are relatively fresh out of high school. My guess is that most of you feel that your education was adequate; and yet here is the CEO (or whatever he is now) of Microsoft saying that even if your high school worked flawlessly, you still came to college undereducated.

I wonder what you think of that, from two perspectives: as a college student, and as someone who is going to be entering the work force shortly, where this is the view of your education held by one of the leading business minds in America today?

See the related article here . . . .

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