CREAM RISES

CREAM RISES TO THE TOP. THE BRIGHTEST SHOULD TOO, BUT NOT IN TODAY'S EDUCATIONAL SETTING. THE DAYS WHEN I.Q. AND TEST SCORES AND SINCERE MOTIVATION DETERMINED WHO WAS CHOSEN FOR ENTRANCE INTO COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ARE APPARENTLY GONE. COLLEGE ADMISSIONS’ DIRECTORS CONSIDER STUDENTS FROM WHOM RACIAL PREFERENCES. COMMUNITY SERVICE, POLISHED ESSAYS, COACHING, ATHLETICS, ENDOWMENTS, PARENTAGE, ETC. MAKE THEM 'LOOK' LIKE GOOD - OR BETTER - CANDIDATES. SERVICE LEARNING AND CONSTRUCTIVISM (DON'T ASK FOR A TRANSLATION OF EDUCATIONAL JINGOESE) ARE SERIOUSLY ASSESSED. THE MINORITIES, MONIED AND PRIVILEGED GET BREAKS TOO. 'LEARNING STYLES' OF HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE CONSIDERED. WHY? WE KNOW SILLINESS REPLACES SELF-KNOWLEDGE IN THE INTELLECTUAL AND PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF TEENAGERS. I REPEAT WHAT ROBERT HUTCHINS SAID. HE WAS AT ONE TIME PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, WHERE THESE ADMISSION PRACTICES NOW TAKE PLACE. "MOST OF THE IMPORTANT THINGS THAT A HUMAN BEING OUGHT TO KNOW CANNOT BE COMPREHENDED IN YOUTH."

FEELINGS, ARBITRARINESS AND PREFERENCES HAVE NO PLACE IN DECISION MAKING THAT WAS DESIGNED TO RESULT IN THE BRIGHTEST AND BEST BEING GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN AND ADVANCE THEIR EDUCATION AND, AS A RESULT, THE LEVEL OF CIVILIZATION . FROM WHAT I READ, WE ARE REGRESSING - AND NOT TO THE DAYS WHEN BOSSIE'S OR ELSIE'S CREAM WAS SKIMMED AND CHURNED INTO SOMETHING DELICIOUS AND DELUXE. THE PRODUCTS OF THE PRESENT SYSTEM OF ‘HIGHER EDUCATION’ ARE CURDLING LIKE SOUR MILK AND WHEY.