While literacy requires intellectual curiosity, being successful at most 4-year universities does not.
Most of the folks I know from Renaissance Weekend are there because they are insatiably interested in the world around them; most of the people I know in my life are surely intellectually curious.
The Pew discovered something that a lot of us know: college is no longer about a liberal education to curious young minds. Apparently, “students completing 4-year degrees, and 30 percent of students earning 2-year degrees have only basic quantitative literacy skills.”
College is the new high school and graduate school is the new college.
Via Science Daily and the LA Times.
