[Clintonfatigued]

Here you have, as far back as before World War I, a founding member of the public schools admitting that he didn’t want the public school students to achieve or even aspire to greatness. And his mission succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.

That’s public education, producing mediocre intellects and childish, dependent personalities for over 100 years.

[kalee]

Mark Twain observed that he never let schools get in the way of his education. He had a point.

[kittymyrib]

LOL...this sounds like the future that Obama has envisioned for the USA. We are all to be docile taxpayers, content to turn our lives and our paychecks over to more intelligent Socialists such as he perceives himself to be.

[D_Idaho]

Check out John Taylor Gatto’s “The Underground History of American Education” or Samuel Blumenfeld’s “NEA: Trojan horse in American Education” Both are what you might call “eye opening” in their exposure of the creepy origins of American education.

[familyop]

And there it is. Public education is about your kids being kept down to make way for the rich kids. If you think again about the purpose of the man-hating social programs and propaganda that made way for those, you will see it. You will see it on many other fronts, too.

[Mister Da]

Liberal slop!

“I have heard blame thrown upon administrators, teachers, parents, students, the state bureaucracy, and the national government. Well, the blame rests with all of us.”

He went on to blame everyone on his list but administrators & teachers.

No mention of violence or lack of discipline in schools, which disrupts the learning of all in the class. No mention of incompetent teachers or administrators.

He is a fan of phonetic spelling, which in my mind is forcing the student to learn to spell a word twice: the phonetic way to graduate, & the correct way to get & keep a decent job.

[wintertime]

This essay is complete Marxist drivel!

He is a teacher? I shudder think about the influence he is having on his prisoners ( oops! “students”).

[metmom]

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