Teaching the U.S. Constitution

                                        

Our inefficient schools prove to be a waste of so much of our educational funds. They appear to do more for the welfare of the teachers than they do the kids being taught.

                       

As one example I refer to Prof. Walter E. Williams, in a past column. Professor Williams, is now retired as head of the Economics Dept. of George Mason University but still actively writes and comments about his specialty.

                       

According to one survey, Dr. Williams says, only 28% of students can identify the Constitution as the supreme law of the land. And that fewer than 25% of students knew that George Washington was the first president of the United States.

                       

And that only 26% of students knew that the first ten amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights.

                       

Years ago, kids did better, when they sat, 30 and 40 to a class, and in one-room school houses. And so did the taxpayers funding their education do better. (See the Earl J Weinreb NewsHole® comments and @BusinessNewshole tweets.)