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Negative Leaning
Reader comment on item: American Students Get Dumber at College
Submitted by Ben Samuel (United States), Oct 9, 2006 at 12:54
This is a well known problem.
The President of Harvard (Bok) was once asked how it was that knowledge increased in Universities?
He replied: freshman come in with lots of knowledge, leave as seniors with none and their knowledge is left behind.
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| Rhodes College NOT conservative [33 words] | Ruth McClain | Nov 24, 2006 17:09 | 67213 | ||
 On the Comment about Rhodes College [77 words] | T. S. | Jun 10, 2011 13:28 | 67213 | ||
| Rhodes College is not conservative [51 words] | ramcclain | Jun 10, 2011 18:19 | 67213 | ||
| Many other factors [282 words] | Ben | Nov 2, 2006 20:24 | 65140 | ||
| Ben [64 words] | Michael | Nov 24, 2006 19:39 | 65140 | ||
| The problem with the universities came when they greedily reached forth their hands and took... [124 words] | Rick House | Oct 30, 2006 15:44 | 64819 | ||
| 50 Years of Public Education [315 words] | D Williams | Oct 24, 2006 21:18 | 64408 | ||
| sadly correct.. [200 words] | donvan | Oct 26, 2006 17:04 | 64408 | ||
| yup... [49 words] | Wolfgang | Dec 8, 2006 14:46 | 64408 | ||
 Negative Leaning [42 words] | Ben Samuel | Oct 9, 2006 12:54 | 59383 |
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