Though the number of Americans completing their education has dramatically increased in the past century, the quality of that education has declined. In comparison to other civilized countries, America’s standards contrast greatly. Statistics show a rapid decline in the refinement of once vital classroom skills. Instead of gaining a vast general knowledge, American education tends to lean on the experts. What was once considered common knowledge, has become a thing of the past. America’…showed first 75 words of 441 total…

…showed last 75 words of 441 total…education in America has greatly improved overtime, with laws mandating the education of its youth, but America’s standard educational agenda is devoid of the knowledge synonymous with wisdom. America’s tendency toward experts, instead of general knowledge, aligns them as a distant follower of other significant cultures. The American society cannot expect to compete with the knowledgeable sophistication found amongst the other dominant countries of the world, if the this deficiency in education continues