John Winfrey

Public Education's Path into the Swamp John Winfrey

Public Education (K-12 & Higher Education) has slid ethically and is living in the great American swampland of incompetence, self-absorption, self-interest, mental aberration & deception. At least in the hard sciences, higher education is involved in a conspiracy to provide cheap slave labor for research faculty. Result: a BUBBLE. Over the past 50 years, up to eight times as many graduate students are trained in RESEARCH as there are new RESEARCH FACULTY openings. Surplus Ph. D.'s are warehoused in TEACHING ONLY positions, not transparent in their mission statements nor in their catalogs (THE legal agreement). US public education: Is managed by rank amateurs; Is increasingly anemic and obsolete; and The system facing faculty (training & employment) has removed all means and motivation to either inspired or accurate-subject-instruction (misconceptions in faculty are rampant!).