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    Feeding the Peanut Gallery Senior Member Redleg's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lemur
    Step One: Break the teachers' unions. As long as our educators have the same mindset as 1950s auto workers, we won't get very far.

    I'm not kidding. Every attempt to introduce meaningful reform into our public schools has been stymied by that fracking teachers' union.
    I agree

    The part that Kafir ignores in his rant is if parents don't care about child's education then the child will not be receptive to recieving the education, so the amount of money spent on education is mote until this problem is addressed by the parents themselves.

    The government can lead you to water, but it can not make you drink from the fountain of education if you don't want to.

    So if you want to fix education you first have to address the entitlement society that Kafir's generation has enabled, and mine continues to propagate.
    O well, seems like 'some' people decide to ruin a perfectly valid threat. Nice going guys... doc bean

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    Quote Originally Posted by Redleg
    The government can lead you to water, but it can not make you drink from the fountain of education if you don't want to.
    Sure it can. All it needs is a few strong men, a funnel and a tube - there you go, fresh water!
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    Default Re: illiterate in America

    Quote Originally Posted by Redleg
    The part that Kafir ignores in his rant is if parents don't care about child's education then the child will not be receptive to recieving the education, so the amount of money spent on education is mote until this problem is addressed by the parents themselves.
    Something we agree on.

    On Beirut's point, I have said before in other threads about Americans' education problems that the US has the two extremes (as usual with most things). It has a significant number of very ignorant people (who vote! ) and some of the brightest minds on the planet. The national average is very low, but the most intelligent have the means at their disposal to see their projects to fruition (like foil-covered tin cans floating in space). This is not true of most of the equally intelligent people in other nations.


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