the impossibility of both situations (teaching high school and having hallowed university halls graced by students lacking essential skills) has reached a crisis point.
But I'm not sure his idea of how to fix it is so great:
As part of the exit criteria from high school, all students should be paraded down to the cafeteria, given five or six sheets of blank paper and two hours, and told: "Okay, one of the entrance requirements to university and college is a ten-paragraph essay on the colour red. Take your time."
It is also perhaps worth pointing out that he's talking about Canada, but you wouldn't know that if he didn't tell you. It seems the plight of education is nearly as bad under the enlightened Paul Martin as it is under the ignorant George W. Bush.
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