Thursday, January 04, 2007
Ralph Waldo Emerson and public schools today
“We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at least with a belly full of words and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods. We cannot tell our course by the stars, not the hour of the day by the sun.” Ralph Waldo Emerson on the topic of public and college education. When will we put an end to this foolishness called Public Education that siphons dollars from our pockets to support wages to people who fuel buses, heat and air condition schools, make-up ridiculous bus routes, build behemoth monuments that house cities of students that are forgotten in the maze, pay disproportionate salaries to those untalented teachers at the trough who gained a diploma from OZ permitting them to be leaders when they are usually no more than coaches? ...oh, please people! Tear down this system of holding tanks and re-create a learning system that opens minds to thought rather repetitive redundancies.
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men (and women). by Abraham Lincoln.
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men (and women). by Abraham Lincoln.
# posted by Bite Me Kissimmee @ 12:58 PM 
