An Elephant and An Enigma

Abstract

This intriguing metaphor has since become popular and has been applied to a number of serious but unacknowledged issues. I apply it now to a major problem that plagues America’s youths and the country’s education system. This problem is known to ruin lives for millions of young people, to plague a host of educators and the schools in which they work, and to generate endless miseries for the country at large.