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Originally Posted by Moejoe
. . .Doesn't that worry you? That a person who can barely speak, a person who spelled her own name wrongly when she chose it, is at the top of the most-read list? Christ, can we dumb down our culture any more before we stand up and say 'no'?
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It worries me but I see no way to do anything aobut it. Here in the U.S. the problem begins with parents who don't/can't read, who spend more time taking care of their employer's business than their children's business.
Then comes school and we entrust our children to teachers who can't distinguish a noun from a verb, who penalize their students for grammatically correct prose because they (the teachers) can't recognize a grammatically correct sentence, and whose only concern is higher pay for less work and lower skill set.
The saddest part of my business is editing books written by teachers for fellow teachers. It simply brings to the fore how poorly educated our teachers are.
(BTW, there was an excellent article in
The Economist last week about poor teachers in Britain. Could easily have substituted U.S. for Britain in the article.)
I do not expect to see any turnaround in the U.S. in my lifetime.