Posted on 10/20/2004 9:32:32 AM PDT by jbwbubba
TERESA: TEACHING ISN'T A 'REAL JOB' [10/20 12:19 PM]
From USA Today interview with Teresa Heinz Kerry:
Q: You'd be different from Laura Bush? A: Well, you know, I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job — I mean, since she's been grown up.
What arrogance. Stunning, unmitigated arrogance!
From the White House:
Inspired by her second grade teacher, she earned a bachelor of science degree in education from Southern Methodist University in 1968. She then taught in public schools in Dallas and Houston. In 1973 she earned a master of library science degree from the University of Texas at Austin and worked as a public school librarian in Austin [until 1977].
Hey, teachers, librarians: Teresa Heinz Kerry says your work isn't a "real job"!
We can't all be ketchup heiresses, you know.
Taking a hint from all these days off, I just started a three week on and one week off schedule, plus any official holidays. It's more for my sanity than anything else.
Please check your FReepmail. I've answered your question that way.
He's a handsome boy!
Oh, I am not faulting them. I'm grateful for all the time they spend herding 8 year olds.
The only gripe I have is that we have little snow here, maybe 20 days worth and usually not in a row. Sometimes, it will dust a little and they have off.
Of course, they don't have the plows like they did in PA, but c'mon! If everyone else can make it to work.........
I understand what you are saying.........we have little snow here as well, but do have problems with roads flooding with rain and so they factor in "weather" days.
The weird thing is the plowing for "snow" around here is far superior to anything I ever saw in Delaware.
I didn't think it was possible, but I think Ms. Kerry may be a bigger bitch than Hillary.
She can't go claiming that she 'mispoke'.
She knows that The First Lady was a teacher and a librarian.....because she has mentioned it before.
She did this on purpose....and now they will try and say she mispoke. Just like they tried with Kerry and fat Elizebitch Edwards...when they pull that tawdry political tactic with Mary Cheney.
You mean a good government school system? There is no such thing, for many reasons, the primary one being that government schools ignore the purpose of life and education, that is, to teach children how to know, love and serve God in this life and to be happy forever with Him in the next.
You may not want to hear this, but it is the truth. If it's impossible for you to homeschool or send you children to private school for financial reasons, my heart goes out to you.
Government schooling has never been about true education, but about training and social experimentation.
The particular utopia American believers chose to bring to the schoolhouse was Prussian. The seed that became American schooling, twentieth-century style, was planted in 1806 when Napoleon’s amateur soldiers bested the professional soldiers of Prussia at the battle of Jena. When your business is renting soldiers and employing diplomatic extortion under threat of your soldiery, losing a battle like that is pretty serious. Something had to be done.Before sending children off to gov't school, parents should read this book.The most important immediate reaction to Jena was an immortal speech, the "Address to the German Nation" by the philosopher Fichte—one of the influential documents of modern history leading directly to the first workable compulsion schools in the West. Other times, other lands talked about schooling, but all failed to deliver. Simple forced training for brief intervals and for narrow purposes was the best that had ever been managed. This time would be different.
In no uncertain terms Fichte told Prussia the party was over. Children would have to be disciplined through a new form of universal conditioning. They could no longer be trusted to their parents. Look what Napoleon had done by banishing sentiment in the interests of nationalism. Through forced schooling, everyone would learn that "work makes free," and working for the State, even laying down one’s life to its commands, was the greatest freedom of all. Here in the genius of semantic redefinition1 lay the power to cloud men’s minds, a power later packaged and sold by public relations pioneers Edward Bernays and Ivy Lee in the seedtime of American forced schooling.
Prior to Fichte’s challenge any number of compulsion-school proclamations had rolled off printing presses here and there, including Martin Luther’s plan to tie church and state together this way and, of course, the "Old Deluder Satan" law of 1642 in Massachusetts and its 1645 extension. The problem was these earlier ventures were virtually unenforceable, roundly ignored by those who smelled mischief lurking behind fancy promises of free education. People who wanted their kids schooled had them schooled even then; people who didn’t didn’t. That was more or less true for most of us right into the twentieth century: as late as1920, only 32 percent of American kids went past elementary school. If that sounds impossible, consider the practice in Switzerland today where only 23 percent of the student population goes to high school, though Switzerland has the world’s highest per capita income in the world.
Prussia was prepared to use bayonets on its own people as readily as it wielded them against others, so it’s not all that surprising the human race got its first effective secular compulsion schooling out of Prussia in 1819, the same year Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, set in the darkness of far-off Germany, was published in England. Schule came after more than a decade of deliberations, commissions, testimony, and debate. For a brief, hopeful moment, Humboldt’s brilliant arguments for a high-level no-holds-barred, free-swinging, universal, intellectual course of study for all, full of variety, free debate, rich experience, and personalized curricula almost won the day. What a different world we would have today if Humboldt had won the Prussian debate, but the forces backing Baron vom Stein won instead. And that has made all the difference.
The Prussian mind, which carried the day, held a clear idea of what centralized schooling should deliver: 1) Obedient soldiers to the army; 2) Obedient workers for mines, factories, and farms; 3) Well-subordinated civil servants, trained in their function; 4) Well-subordinated clerks for industry; 5) Citizens who thought alike on most issues; 6) National uniformity in thought, word, and deed.
The area of individual volition for commoners was severely foreclosed by Prussian psychological training procedures drawn from the experience of animal husbandry and equestrian training, and also taken from past military experience. Much later, in our own time, the techniques of these assorted crafts and sullen arts became "discoveries" in the pedagogical pseudoscience of psychological behaviorism.
Prussian schools delivered everything they promised. Every important matter could now be confidently worked out in advance by leading families and institutional heads because well-schooled masses would concur with a minimum of opposition. This tightly schooled consensus in Prussia eventually combined the kaleidoscopic German principalities into a united Germany, after a thousand years as a nation in fragments. What a surprise the world would soon get from this successful experiment in national centralization! Under Prussian state socialism private industry surged, vaulting resource-poor Prussia up among world leaders. Military success remained Prussia’s touchstone. Even before the school law went into full effect as an enhancer of state priorities, the army corps under Blücher was the principal reason for Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo, its superb discipline allowing for a surprisingly successful return to combat after what seemed to be a crushing defeat at the Little Corporal’s hands just days before.3 Unschooled, the Prussians were awesome; conditioned in the classroom promised to make them even more formidable.
I've thought the same thing. She stands to lose a great chunk of her billionairess lifestyle should she become first lady. Do the democrats really believe that her mouth is going to do wonders for America's standing in the rest of the world?
Judge not, lest ye be judged.
You know nothing about me, my family, my child, or where I live, kindly mind your own busines.
It may be the best thing the Kerry campaign has ever done for us; keep TeRAYza OFF her meds and gums a'flappin while they dig their own graves.
It's nice to know that TeRAYza thinks I have no value as a human being - I am an at-home mom as well as a homeschool teacher . . . .perhaps she'd rather I was used for stem cell research?
What a piece of work!
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