I think what Holt is trying to say is that, what ever we do to improve the quality of life, in turn will improve education. the way in which society changes will have an ever lasting influence on the way people are taught. ... We are in the midst of this change in the relationship between society and school, one in which the idea of "good citizen" now merely means an employed person who has been certified by the schools as competent. ... However, a fundamental change in education didn't occur until 1988, whereby a national curriculum was introduced, in an attempt to give every scho...

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Students do not develop thinking or writing skills needed to move on in their academic careers. ... Instructors must change the way they approach the class as in grading papers and the way they teach the material. ...

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