The Wealthiest Nation on Earth Simply Doesn't Know How to Enjoy Himself in a Material World

If you will examine the system of education through which most of our children are compelled to pass, you will discover that it imparts almost no knowledge whatsoever of any kind of material competence. Our education is exclusively bookish and is designed on the whole to train people to be bureaucrats bankers clerks insurance salesman teachers and we hope intellectuals. It admits that there are a lot of people going through the scheme who really will never qualify for graduate school not even perhaps for college. In American colleges you can get an AB you can get credits towards an AB for courses in basket weaving and this isn't really so funny as it looks," he says.