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The Driver-Training Boondoggle

Nearly every public high school in the country now offers driver-training; many of them require it of all students. In Michigan, the legislature of this automobile-conscious state has passed an act requiring the teaching of this skill, and denying a driver’s license to any young person who has not passed a school course therein. That’s one way to sell the overstock of new models: fit the cars with dual controls, and make the school boards buy them. We don’t require a knowledge of history, or literature, or even arithmetic; but it’s love that car, or else.

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The Driver-Training Boondoggle

Nearly every public high school in the country now offers driver-training; many of them require it of all students. In Michigan, the legislature of this automobile-conscious state has passed an act requiring the teaching of this skill, and denying a driver’s license to any young person who has not passed a school course therein. That’s one way to sell the overstock of new models: fit the cars with dual controls, and make the school boards buy them. We don’t require a knowledge of history, or literature, or even arithmetic; but it’s love that car, or else.