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THAT ‘DRIVER EDUCATION’ BOONDOGGLE

Thirteen years ago, your servant published on this page a criticism of “driver education” in public high schools. Various well-intentioned people remonstrated with me that I was unkind and misinformed to cast slurs upon an undertaking designed to make the roads safer. Well, the roads have not grown safer in the intervening years; but during that period, considerable evidence has accumulated to suggest that driver education in high schools not only has no beneficent effect upon road safety, but actually may encourage juvenile obsession with automobiles and increase danger on the road.

RK

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THAT ‘DRIVER EDUCATION’ BOONDOGGLE

Thirteen years ago, your servant published on this page a criticism of “driver education” in public high schools. Various well-intentioned people remonstrated with me that I was unkind and misinformed to cast slurs upon an undertaking designed to make the roads safer. Well, the roads have not grown safer in the intervening years; but during that period, considerable evidence has accumulated to suggest that driver education in high schools not only has no beneficent effect upon road safety, but actually may encourage juvenile obsession with automobiles and increase danger on the road.