Posted on 03/16/2014 8:36:52 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
Bill Gates, the multi billionaire who does not have an earned college degree or teaching certificate, never taught a day in the classroom, never worked in an educational system or one room school house is comparing the education of children to electrical outlets.
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Any liberal elite hack can give away money. Gates should have stayed in computers where he would have continued making the world a better place.
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The students in Maine need to know different things than the students in Southern California or Hawaii or Nome Alaska.A serious question: Why? A salesman needs to know how to sell things. A mathematician needs to know how to do math. Engineers needs to know how to engineer. None of this stuff has to do with where you grew up. I was born and raised here in Atlanta, but if I move anywhere in the USA, or even OUT of the USA, I still need to know what I need to know to do my job. Is Maine math different from Georgia math? Do the laws of physics work different in each state?
Conservatives are in a dither about curriculum when the REAL problem is that every government school should be SHUT DOWN!I'd agree with this in a heartbeat, but no public schools would have done me badly as a child. I grew up poor and both my parents worked 12 hours a day. They didn't have the money to send me to private school and they didn't have the time or energy to school me. So before I agree, I have to ask: where would a fellow like me have gotten educated? Private schools, religious or not, don't run on charity. You need serious money.
How was that before socialist-entitlement and single-payer schooling Tocqueville wrote that Americans were amazingly literate?
And...Americans are the most generous people on the planet in the entire history of humankind. Do you seriously believe that any poor child would be left without access to schooling due to money? Really?
Our colleges and universities are awash in endowments. Literally. Harvard has an endowment of 34 BILLION ( with a “B”) and Dartmouth's is 3 Billion. If there were no government K-12 schooling a good bit of those donations would be directed to K-12 schooling....but...Hey!...Why should anyone donate to K-12 schooling when government can take money from the citizen by force?
Finally, in a generation or two it will be impossible for many citizens to imagine life without Obamacare. Gee! The poor will die in the streets without SS healthcare ( single-payer and socialist-entitlement healthcare). Right? The same arguments,such as yours, defending SS indoctrination camps (Oops! “schools”) will be trotted out to defend single-payer and socialist-entitlement health care.
By the way, your SS schooling succeeded in its mission. You can't seem to envision life without SS schools.
How was that before socialist-entitlement and single-payer schooling Tocqueville wrote that Americans were amazingly literate?During the winter your folks usually educated you out of a McGuffey Reader. That was assuming they were literate. Most of those literate folks were up North; down here in the Deep South your average farmer didn't need to read a lick.
And...Americans are the most generous people on the planet in the entire history of humankind. Do you seriously believe that any poor child would be left without access to schooling due to money? Really?Thinking about humanity in general and especially that in my state of GA....yup, can totally see that. People aren't as generous as we'd like to think. Hobbes was right, you know.
If there were no government K-12 schooling a good bit of those donations would be directed to K-12 schooling.That can be supposed, sure, but it ain't a done deal unless it's done.
By the way, your SS schooling succeeded in its mission. You can't seem to envision life without SS schools.*shrugs* Sure I can. I just would have been out of luck, is all. There wouldn't have been any charity for me; charity goes to the super-geniuses or the pretty people. I'm just an average Joe. I'm pretty sure I would have ended up like the poor out in the GA mountains. Or I would have ended up in a factory somewhere, like those poor men out at that turkey plant in Indiana. Grunts don't need to know how to read, you know.
“Considering many inventions necessary for landing on the moon didn’t occur until well after WWI, that was a rather uneducated remark.”
Sorry, forgot the /s which should have obviously been a super capital /S
Your government schools succeeded in teaching you low self esteem and self confidence.
I think you would have done very well not in spite of your challenging circumstances but because of them.
I think you would have done very well not in spite of your challenging circumstances but because of them.No, I would not have. None of the companies I've ever worked for would have hired me - and I'll never work for a small business or in a menial position ever again. Had enough of that.
Thanks Texas Eagle.
People aren’t plugs.
Intelligence and innovation are not inert and purely reactive.
If you want 50 original ideas, you need 50 well educated individuals, each of whom thinks originally.
You’ve got it.
I call state-run education programs like Common Core Thought Eugenics.
The goal of the eugenicists was to breed all the “undesirable” qualities completely out of humanity so that only the “desirable” qualities could be bred.
The goal is the same for all of these educational programs: to indoctrinate the citizenry so thoroughly that even those who think ‘outside the box,’ are still thinking well within the boundaries that the statists predetermined.
Amen, bro.
Nor are we bricks. Which is how Liberals view people. The same. Interchangeable.
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