where did the "learn" meme go?

     I sat down to read a month's worth of articles on education I had saved for later--these from the new York Times. The word learn wasn't used once.This is part of a trend sorely in need of correction. We have those who believe that children are either "gifted" academically, or not "gifted". We have those who believe that educational success is genetically determined. We have those who believe that answers to factual questions will come to them through meditation and prayer--not because they are trying to calm down and remember what they learned, but as a substitute for the learning that didn't happen. Not the learning they didn't do. The learning that didn't happen.
     The only sense in which education is hereditary is that educated people tend to insist that their children do their schoolwork--and they know that there is work involved. Absent this notion, every attempt to provide an adequate education to every American is bound to fail.