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From: dwd@sfsup.UUCP (D.W.Dougherty)
Newsgroups: sci.math,comp.edu,sci.physics
Subject: Re: Public Education is a Fraud
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Date: 22 Dec 88 12:53:29 GMT
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In article <7.UUL1.3#913@acw.UUCP> scott@acw.UUCP (Scott Guthery) writes:
:: Teachers succeed without teaching and students succeed without learning.  
:: Is there really any question why there's no education going on in our 
:: education system?
:: 
:: A teacher's only use for students to get money out of taxpayers.  The
:: more money they get, the less they teach.  Once they get tenure or graduate
:: into administration, they do nothing useful at all.  $300 billion/year we 
:: dump into our education system and 20% of our high school graduates can't
:: find the U.S. on a world map.  It makes the DoD look like a model
:: of efficiency and fiscal responsibility.
:: 
:: Thanks to the U.S. Department of Social Engineering's reinterpretation 
:: of "all men are created equal" as "any dolt can do any job," students
:: know damn well they can live a good life in America off the sweat of somebody
:: else's brow.   The more complaints & disadvantages a student can muster 
:: the better grade he gets and the less he is required to accomplish.  
:: 
:: As long as we continue to reward excuses for failure and resent achievement, 
:: our education system will continue to build yet more fetid byways in the 
:: intellectual sewer.  AIDS studies, anyone?
:: 

I believe that load and fanatic applause is appropriate here!!