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Show I Dorothy Thompson looks at education: "Most American parents do not want their children to be educated. They want them to be trained for a specific function. They despise des-pise 'useless' knowledge. So our high schools are forced to teach everything under the sun, typing, home economics, mechanics, parenthood, and many other things that young people once learned at home, in specialized schools, or as apprentices. But a real educational educa-tional institution is not a job factory . . " |