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Re: Apple II: Second Best Tech Product of All Time!

aiiadict@gmail.com wrote:

On Apr 14, 3:45 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:


Since we always have the leaders we deserve, we need to work hard
on education, so that we deserve better.



  If we deserve what we have now then 1)we deserve all of our "tax"
money being spent on big industry in OTHER coutries 2)we deserve all
of our freedoms being taken away 3)we deserve to beLIEve the lies we
are told.


Evidently, a very large part of the country feels that those
actions are appropriate...or they weren't very good at judging
character.

Fear always brings out the worst in people--the reptilian brain.
One telltale sign of a bad leader is that he/she encourages fear.


  There is a problem with "working hard on education".  The US
education
system is governed by leaders.  stuperintendent...  governor...
pRESIDENT.  They dictate what gets taught and what does not.  As I see
it (being one of their students about 8 years ago) they teach nothing
but how to be a sheep.  Go with the flow or you'll be outcast, put
down, ridiculed.


Mark Twain wrote that, "God created idiots for practice, then He
created schoolboards."  (It would seem that Americans are perpetually
disappointed with their education system.  ;-)

It is unfortunate that the educational establishment has been breathing
their own exhaust for so long that they no longer know what or how to
teach.  They spend all their time learning educational theory and
methodologies, and precious little time learning subject matter.

Of course, the teachers themselves are not respected, either by their
students or by their communities, even if they deserve respect.

And many students attend school with little or no interest or desire
for accomplishment.

Where to start...  I think with a realization that what we are currently
doing is not achieving our objectives--and with a new resolve to change
the system so that it works.


  How do you change education, to get better leaders, when the leaders
control education?  (that's a sick group of words if I've ever seen
one.  "leaders control education"... yuck)...  catch 22


This is, indeed, a Catch 22.

What is needed is nothing short of a revolution in education, supported
by parents' convictions that the education of their children is the
most important legacy they can leave them.

Clearly there is a lot of work to do.

"What if the only way we could maintain and improve our standard of
living was to see that our children got the finest educations that
they are capable of?

"Well, it *is* the only way!"

(The benefit could be cast in more global terms than "our standard
of living", but this form, perhaps, speaks to the most people.)

-michael

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