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Human capital is the outcome of investment in education and job-increasing skills. The bulk of human capital is assumed not at the college level but at the grammar and high school level. It is also where the foundation is established for assimilating more developed and sophisticated higher verbal and mathematical skills later on in college. And, it is also the area which businesses claim are where the greatest educational deficiencies persist...
...skills typically attained at the grammer and high school levels. In that sense, the Clinton's Administration's initiative on what I will now call a human capital (gains) tax cut is best focused not at the college level, where merit financing exists and is plentiful, but at the grammar and public school level...
...course the door is wide open on how to go about doing this: from direct grants of vouchers or tax deductions for families to pursue high quality grammar and high school education for themselves and their children (as many Republicans advocate) to government-initiated programs like Head Start. I leave this issue for others to debate although my general recommendation is for vouchers, which would essentially do at the high school and grammar school level what the Clinton's proposed job-training and educational tax cut would do at the college education and post-high school training levels...
...verse to a ridiculous and grotesque extreme. We speculate that this was done for (melo) dramatic effect, but it does not succeed in moving us. Call us unfeeling. Call us not trendy enough. But the exhibit's stubborn refusal to acknowledge the wholeness of words and the rules of grammar just gives us a headache...
...moons ago, Harvard administrators quite reasonably decided to shut down the tiny Linguistics department. Then there were protests, as the dozen or so linguistics students took up tongues against their oppressor. Their angry letters epitomized excellent grammar and syntax, though they were most certainly devoid of common sense and the old Crimson spirit...