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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-ayers/obama-and-education-refor_b_154857.html

He makes some good points, however a significant portion of his “solution” is the old canard of throwing more money at the problem. That has been shown to either not work or if at all, poorly.

Children need to be “taught” to be inquisitive (or not have that nature burned out of them) by their parents.

They need to be taught much as Descartes says; de omnibus dubitandum est, and only agree with what is being said after much research or confirmation.

In other words be inquisitive and to doubt much of what is being told unless you can confirm it. However most would rather have children be quiet and conform already and not ask silly questions such as why?

Children need to be taught to be inquisitive (or not have that nature burned out of them) by their parents.

A lot of children have inquisitiveness burned out of them and they grow up to be adults who passively accept whatever the pop culture throws at them. Often bright, inquisitive children are ignored or seen as a burden.

Sol Stern
Obama's Real Bill Ayers Problem
The ex-Weatherman is now a radical educator with influence.
23 April 2008

Barack Obama complains that he’s been unfairly attacked for a casual political and social relationship with his neighbor, former Weatherman Bill Ayers. Obama has a point. In the ultraliberal Hyde Park community where the presidential candidate first earned his political spurs, Ayers is widely regarded as a member in good standing of the city’s civic establishment, not an unrepentant domestic terrorist. But Obama and his critics are arguing about the wrong moral question. The more pressing issue is not the damage done by the Weather Underground 40 years ago, but the far greater harm inflicted on the nation’s schoolchildren by the political and educational movement in which Ayers plays a leading role today.
A Chicago native son, Ayers first went into combat with his Weatherman comrades during the “Days of Rage” in 1969, smashing storefront windows along the city’s Magnificent Mile and assaulting police officers and city officials. Chicago’s mayor at the time was the Democratic boss of bosses, Richard J. Daley. The city’s current mayor, Richard M. Daley, has employed Ayers as a teacher trainer for the public schools and consulted him on the city’s education-reform plans. Obama’s supporters can reasonably ask: If Daley fils can forgive Ayers for his past violence, why should Obama’s less consequential contacts with Ayers be a political disqualification? It’s hard to disagree. Chicago’s liberals have chosen to define deviancy down in Ayers’s case, and Obama can’t be blamed for that.
What he can be blamed for is not acknowledging that his neighbor has a political agenda that, if successful, would make it impossible to lift academic achievement for disadvantaged children. As I have shown elsewhere in City Journal, Ayers’s politics have hardly changed since his Weatherman days. He still boasts about working full-time to bring down American capitalism and imperialism. This time, however, he does it from his tenured perch as Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Instead of planting bombs in public buildings, Ayers now works to indoctrinate America’s future teachers in the revolutionary cause, urging them to pass on the lessons to their public school students...
LINK: http://www.city-journal.org/2008/eon0423ss.html

He makes some good points...

Surely, you jest.

I suppose Stalin and Hitler made some good points, also.

If that POS ever made a good point, it was because he stole it from a conservative thinker.

I'll grant him nothing, except a hemp necktie.

In my mind, he occupies the same position as those other traitorous pieces of excrement; Jane Fonda and that Kerry fool.

Traitors, one and all.