Joanne Jacobs reports on a Penn State accounting professor who states that todays students are “uneducated and unfit for a college education“.
Color me not suprised at all.
Commenting on math education, Professor Ketz states…
To begin, today’s average accounting major cannot perform what used to be Algebra I and II in high school. Students cannot solve simultaneous equations. Students have difficulty with present value computations, not to mention formula derivations. Students even have difficulty employing the high-low method to derive a cost function, something that merely requires one to estimate a straight line from two points.
Liberals, you can thank “new math” for this situation. Professors don’t want your student to solve the equation in a group setting, or by guessing, or even by “discovering” a new and insightful way to do it. They want their students to APPLY the math they have already learned. Unfortunately, many didn’t learn it.
Joanne comments…
Worst of all: Modern students aren’t willing to work.
But they’ve got great self-esteem.
Unfortunately, as Joanne discusses in another post, the stimulus funding in education is most likely to go to “more of the same“. Troubling indeed.
