A. Barton Hinkle Says Sometimes the ‘Makers’ Act Like ‘Takers’

Listen to any group of business
leaders for more than a minute and you’ll get an earful about how
there simply are not enough students “emerging from our public
education system” with the necessary know-how. It’s odd that
the business community, which likes to think of itself as
innovative and solution-oriented, is looking to the decades-old
public education system to solve its worker-training problem. If
there is such tremendous demand for technically literate employees,
asks A. Barton Hinkle, why hasn’t the business sector tried to meet
it?

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