Modern Education

A well-written assessment of modern education from Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited)...

"The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught and what's been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowlegeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into depths of confusion you didn't know existed."