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Old March 13th, 2008 #2
Uncle John
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IMO, this is one of the best posts ever made on this forum. I agree with every single word of it. "Educationalism" in the United States took off in a big way around 1943, when the Congress was looking ahead to the end of the war and was eager to develop programs with which to buy the votes of returning G.I.s.

About twenty years ago I taught a senior-level course in the Price College of Business at the University of Oklahoma. Even then, my students' writing ability was amazingly bad. Most of them couldn't find the topic sentence in a paragraph.