The biggest crisis facing our nation is not financial, it is the fact that the majority of our own citizens are so poorly educated that they cannot make sense of the single language they have partially acquired. Literally. In 1989, 22 years ago, 3 of 82 ~B+ students in the Jr. College English class I was co-teaching could form a sentence. 1 could form a paragraph. Since then, it has become far, far worse, not better.