Education Needs Several Routes to Build Work Force

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I want to look at the so-called American education crisis from the point of view of a professor in international business, where we study not just business practices but institutions around the world. My students develop tolerance as they learn other ways of doing things. In that spirit, let us begin our look at American education in old Germany.

My uncle in Germany could look me straight in the eye and speak with pride of his eighth-grade education. It gave him a rock solid foundation. He was meant to be a farmer in the German east but World War II got in the way and he wound up in Cologne working for Caterpillar's competitor, Deutz. He got additional on-the-job training and worked in production planning. As time went on, he complained about the lack of basic academic skills and abilities of young hires. They can't learn the job if they don't have the basics, he often said.

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Education Needs Several Routes to Build Work Force

I would like to tell you that my professor wife and her two sisters began their education in a one-room school but it was actually two rooms. The school had four grades, two in each room....

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