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Educational Reform Trends Are Depressing

Current educational reform trends worldwide are depressing because the radical reformation Roberts advocates is not on the table; only a handful of high schools, colleges, and universities make this acquisition-based, great-books approach central, while most institutions remain cookie-cutter memorize-and-forget machines that issue credentials.

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Russ Roberts

Evidence Quote

A lot of colleges tragically to me--and high schools--are just cookie cutters of this more--memorize a bunch of stuff, write it down, forget it a week later.

Source

Russ Roberts on EducationEconTalk
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:10:03 AM

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