Wikipedia on Hyman RIckover. Not much has changed **in 60 years.**
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Rickover developed a decades-long and outspoken interest in the educational standards of the US as being ***a national security issue,*** particularly as compared during the Cold War era to Soviet Russia.[73] <emphasis added; just need to change name of country and You got today>
An example of his passion for education from his 1959 Report on Russia[74] in the context of comparative educational systems:
"There is no room here (in nuclear powerplant development) for lofty theories which do not work out in practice. We would not get anywhere if we had the loose, hazy thinking you encounter when you bring out the obvious failures of the American educational system. ... there are times when it is irresponsible to avoid criticizing something which one knows to be wrong and dangerous for the Nation as a whole. I feel that every one who has a position of responsibility in this country and who can see and understand what is happening not only has the right, he has the obligation and the duty to speak. ... This is why I feel so strongly about education—about our failure to give our children as good an education as they deserve and need. ... It is my considered opinion that there is no problem that faces the Congress or the country that is as important."
Wikipedia on Hyman RIckover. Not much has changed **in 60 years.**
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Rickover developed a decades-long and outspoken interest in the educational standards of the US as being ***a national security issue,*** particularly as compared during the Cold War era to Soviet Russia.[73] <emphasis added; just need to change name of country and You got today>
An example of his passion for education from his 1959 Report on Russia[74] in the context of comparative educational systems:
"There is no room here (in nuclear powerplant development) for lofty theories which do not work out in practice. We would not get anywhere if we had the loose, hazy thinking you encounter when you bring out the obvious failures of the American educational system. ... there are times when it is irresponsible to avoid criticizing something which one knows to be wrong and dangerous for the Nation as a whole. I feel that every one who has a position of responsibility in this country and who can see and understand what is happening not only has the right, he has the obligation and the duty to speak. ... This is why I feel so strongly about education—about our failure to give our children as good an education as they deserve and need. ... It is my considered opinion that there is no problem that faces the Congress or the country that is as important."