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...first, few academics listened to their complaints, but they pay heed now. It is shocking but nonetheless true that the majority of those who enter college never graduate. Many of them may drop out for the wrong reasons, out of impatience or self-indulgence. But so massive a disaffection???so large a gap between classroom and job, schooling and life?cannot be met merely with the old incantations about hard work and discipline. Education in the U.S. has been called its secular religion; from all signs it is ripe for a reformation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Graduates and Jobs: A Grave New World | 5/24/1971 | See Source »

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