[Kinnard]

I'm in no way an expert, but I've pretty much seen the gamut: private preschool, public elementary school, charter middle school, inner-city public middle-school, elite private boarding school, magnet public high-school . . . I think the public education system is a travesty, but I know it also doesn't make sense to talk about "the system" as if there's anything approaching uniformity. Detroit Public Schools and Bloomfield Hills public schools are worlds apart.

And even still, today's education system might be the best there's ever been . . . most people learn how to read . . .

This doesn't address higher-education, which is a whole 'nother shit-show . . .