Reading Respnose 5 Article 2

    The education in America is new considering how long other countries have been practicing. America was at one point, very much oriented on manufacturing. This prolonged the necessity of a higher education. Now that America's factory jobs are being outsourced to other countries we must learn how to learn. I see that the solution we have come up with is to manufacture our students just as we have manufactured goods in the past and old habits die hard. I believe we need to take note of how other countries (Finland in this case) have been educating. I don't think we have lost the importance of education exactly but we have been going about it in the wrong way. If we are going to continue down the path of a non-manufacturing country we need to understand that we cannot mass produce students in a standardized way. I believe teachers should be held as higher than CEO's of companies and other high paying jobs that in my observation have not helped this nation in any way at all. It has become a very important job and needs to recognized as such.