John Kennedy has put all his books out on the "Please take" table just outside my office. One interesting find included this: "Education, often touted as a cure for all ills, is apparently no cure for incompetence. Incompetence runs riot in the halls of education. One high-school graduate in three cannot read at normal fifth-grade level. It is now commonplace for colleges to be giving reading lessons to freshmen (first-years). In some colleges, twenty percent of freshmen cannot read well enough to understand their textbooks". From the forward in Peter, Laurence J. and Raymond Hull 1969 "The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong".