John W. GardnerMuch education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
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The phrase “education today is monumentally ineffective” describes what is wrong with education today. The effects of this phrase are similar to the feelings that people have when they buy flowers for their home and find out later that the flowers do not bloom. They made a mistake because they thought that plants could be grown to be beautiful, thriving plants. The same thing happens when people buy flowers for their loved ones and they are disappointed to find out that the plants are not as beautiful as they thought they would be.
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