Relieving the high schools of their duty (Berry)
April 25th, 2008 | Published in Education, Quotes | 1 Comment
I was pretty stupid by the time I got to college. I’m not sure how that happened since I had spent 12 years of my life sitting in a classroom. I learned to write a research paper not in high school but in college, for instance. So it’s with some personal feeling that I agree with this quote.
If the universities teach high school courses because the students are not prepared for university courses, then they simply relieve the high schools of their duty and in the process make themselves unable to do their own duty.
—Wendell Berry, “The Loss of the University” in Home Economics (1986), p. 88.
May 1st, 2008 at 6:43 am (#)
I agree. I learned how to write a reserach paper in college and then went on to get my literature degree in college. Yet it seems some of my friends who went to private high schools(I went to public) got alot of the same thinking skills I got as a lit major in their high school courses. They didn’t get as much as I did because I studied alot of lit, but I know they got the basics about 2-3 years before I did.