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Another Country with a Dysfunctional Education System

Cato’s Simon Lester writes here about Italy, where good jobs go unfilled because many Italians now look down their noses at manual work. Italy’s education system, at all levels, provides poor preparation for working life. A great many young Italians are in universities studying things they aren’t really interested in simply because their parents want them there for prestige reasons.

George Leef is the the director of editorial content at the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. He is the author of The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale: A Political Fable for Our Time.
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