WIIfl~BY I~REE PR*SS. WEDNESDAYL FEBRUARY 21. 1990. PAGE 5 Problema of the modemr world: The meet efficient educational system in history -- producing graduates who can't read; The worldls richest society won't spend the xnoney to gt rid cf its garbage; 19story's most studied judicialsysem 'nhic h experts outnumber thecrinsc't control a growing crime rate. ýWe've ail been'involved in coffee break ta]k ike this. If only our "'experts", would start te use some common sense, we. wouldn't be living with such probleins. ThIat's the theme of:.an article ini the current Reader's Digest, condensed fio= an original cohum i in The Wall Street. Journal by Irving Kristol. An educational system run by "educators"turning out illiterates? A judicial system that turns killers bock or). the streets te Iil gain? Social workers who study poverty but failte, break the welfare cycle, generation after generation? Kristol says the solution is part ofthe problem. Ites experts. Eprt educators have studied achool te death -- anxd can't get results. Expert social workers hand out birth control pillà te teenagers, yet stand aghast at increasing teen pregnancies; Expert hawyers, judges, crimainohogiets in the justice system who have caused criniinality to proliferate wildly. You naine the problem. Experts caused it. Such sirnplicity beguiles, and for an moment of two we're ready to except it. It would make the solution te, the ils of this world. so simple. Experts, being the eggheads that they are, study a probhem te, the point where they le. common ' sense. And common sense, as we all know, has the answer te every problem. Take education. Why thirty years ago, we didn't poile seek help Police hav reported aquan- tity of dug4 s en froin Bw- manville Hospital. 'About 20 ampoules of drugs used in emergency cardiac treat- Sment were taken between 3 p.. ; rida Feb. 16 and 3:30 p. Saturday Feb. 17 from a crash fi, cart in the emergency room of Bowmanville hospital. 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Appraiusl 65839 in the welfarý trap make excellent stories because they are 'the exc*pton. And everyone loves a story of bureaucratie bungling. But causeçl by experts? Get real. WIjTH OUR'1 FEET UP by Bill Swan have this problem with illiterates coming out of high schoohs. Nosiree. I-gh holgraduates could read, write, do sums, parse eencesolve problems. Forget that on. person in five Who started high schoo i the Mltes ever w"s graduated. And we con easily forgst that those who got ot along fixe way are today part of the illiteracy otour society. asKistoh: "Crime, like education, is a probhem becaus we have permitted 'sophisticated' theories to prevail over coxnmon sense." Onhy a!journà list couhd make such a blithermng statement.1 Daily we are buried with reports of illiterate high achool grads, the wehfare trap, the justice system that frees killers te l again. AMter a while, we tend to think that is the. norm. An common sense" telse us that should flot be se. Why, we have experts slaving away -te solve such probleins. That they only get worse must surely ha the fault of the experts. Yet we forget that the Donald Marshall case made news because it was the exception. That those caught IFIeJOIrNi ARTlIq j j j, NO DOWN PAWMENTS NO INTEREST OR PÀYM~ENTS UNT(L Canadian-built and designed by: Uý ýV A OMMWE a Self c(eanin g gass door a 5-Year warranty e Full firebrick lining e Internai baffe[ for efficient combustion e Frontal draft controi *Cast iron. airtight door for ail night burn *Floor and rear heat shield invertory Ciearaflce Glass Doors fromn219 DUMHAMIS LARGEST'OROMTUM POL EL EN lc eto ifo *Our ih-ground poo l ature: * i~nanoe kit vacuum kit *DM bard (largemodels) *Heavy detyliner M *3 fL concr eeok *H0g gradeller *FuII guaranteed PLUS MANY, MANY MORE FEATURES NO HIDDEN SURPRISES 990VEFI 4 YEARS COMBINED EXPERIENCEUW The sain sort of "iconimon; sensd" wouhd have people believe tht the world is flat - it makeg sense for it te be se. Surelr people laughed ýat the flrsBt few ."experts" who got 1og trying te go around the world,,or who ended up ij North America when they were triying to find Aia. The saine thinking -would have you believe that' Junior Kindergarten is glorified babysitting,,that it ius unnecessary. I mean, we ddnt have it bock in our dayV,' did we? And we gotahong just fine, thank,you very much. Oh, sure. Forget that kIds in, junior hdndergarten, learn, counting, the alhabet, drawing, stories, naines, the love of 1emnngt t achool is fun. Common sens. won't tell yen -- untihit becomes cornmon -- that people, even four-year-ohds -- leamn more by phaying in- the world around them than laced down in straight rows in stiff chairs. Experts can tell yen different. Expert teachers con lead children te heights their parents, grandparents, couldn'tconceive. Experts ini social welfare keep a horrid probhem from getting worse. Expeérts in criminohogy still provides us with a safe, orderly society. And if we gave them more tools -- adequate courtsý, judges, police officers - they could do an ever better job. lhe worhd around us seems more complex, more forbidding, because it is more comphex, more forbidding. And survival lies not in pillory of exers You don't learn te, live, in the. 'future w7orhd of computers by insisting computer experts mak. sens. te you. No, ie~s the other way round: we get ready for the future by.trying te make sense of what the. experts are teling us. It'sjust common sense, isn't it? CHEVROLET è OLDSMOBILE é CADILLAC PROOF. POSITIVE The security you get from QM's quality and value. Lube Oil & Filter $ Parts & Labour No Extras " Keep your vehicle warranty intact., We change your engine oil filter and lubricate the chassis with'quality lubricants and a GMifiter. eTire tread check and adjuet tire. pressure if required. " Lubricate door and hood hinges. " Check ail fluid 1ýve1s. Offer Expires March 3, 1990O Th. expetdokce. 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