Everybody's got to learn sometime
- The final piece in Johnson's trouble puzzle is schools. They're a mess.
- Society can't be great until every child—they're future kids, he reminds them—can let their imaginations soar. We're not even close.
- He cites some shocking stats: 8 million Americans don't have five years of schooling. 20 million don't have eight.
- 25% of Americans haven't even finished high school and those who do find college unaffordable.
- It's just going to get worse as more kids enter school and more want to go to college.
- Classrooms are overcrowded and teachers are underpaid. There are still plenty of unqualified teachers, too.
- The best way out of poverty, Johnson asserts, is a good education.
- So we can't just make our system bigger; it has to be much better.
- Basically, the entire educational system needs an overhaul.
- Anybody else feeling a little overwhelmed?