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LETTER TO THE EDITOR:
Students just need education
The Glendale News-Press front page covering the Day of Silence, quoting participants’ various — some lame, some effervescent — statements was, let’s say, impressive (“Speaking out with silence,” April 26.)
As a response, there came a formidable array of letters with a variety of viewpoints. Some supported homosexuality and others had a homophobic bent.
But the question of such overwhelming importance to our nation was ignored. That is the well-known, openly discussed fact that the education in U.S. schools is lagging behind badly.
To the contrary, European schools emphasize their primary objective to produce citizens with broad and well-rounded knowledge of languages, literature, history, geography, mathematics, sciences and a multitude of other subjects, as a tool to stimulate interest and evoke thinking.
This, in turn, produces broadly and well-educated individuals who think on their own.
That is why people able to think — not an array of NATO weapons — caused communism to collapse.
Upon my arrival to the United States, through social and professional contacts, I had first-hand experience of the already known infamy. Namely, university-educated people who are otherwise successful in their professions, leave a lot to be desired when involved in conversations on broader subjects.
Why is it so? Maybe, or probably, by design. Simpler people are meeker and easier to manipulate. But as a byproduct of that design, the American down slide is steadily being accelerated. Remember the Roman Empire?
To reverse this slide, American schools should refrain from “business as usual” social experimenting and concentrate on unbiased education.
Then the graduates will be armed with rounded-up general knowledge, which will be their compass to lead them to a balanced and unbiased view of the world.
And all of us, American-born or naturalized, will be able to survive as a nation.
YUL B. DRASKOVIC
Glendale
As a response, there came a formidable array of letters with a variety of viewpoints. Some supported homosexuality and others had a homophobic bent.
But the question of such overwhelming importance to our nation was ignored. That is the well-known, openly discussed fact that the education in U.S. schools is lagging behind badly.
To the contrary, European schools emphasize their primary objective to produce citizens with broad and well-rounded knowledge of languages, literature, history, geography, mathematics, sciences and a multitude of other subjects, as a tool to stimulate interest and evoke thinking.
This, in turn, produces broadly and well-educated individuals who think on their own.
That is why people able to think — not an array of NATO weapons — caused communism to collapse.
Upon my arrival to the United States, through social and professional contacts, I had first-hand experience of the already known infamy. Namely, university-educated people who are otherwise successful in their professions, leave a lot to be desired when involved in conversations on broader subjects.
Why is it so? Maybe, or probably, by design. Simpler people are meeker and easier to manipulate. But as a byproduct of that design, the American down slide is steadily being accelerated. Remember the Roman Empire?
To reverse this slide, American schools should refrain from “business as usual” social experimenting and concentrate on unbiased education.
Then the graduates will be armed with rounded-up general knowledge, which will be their compass to lead them to a balanced and unbiased view of the world.
And all of us, American-born or naturalized, will be able to survive as a nation.
YUL B. DRASKOVIC
Glendale
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