Tag: educational system

Bill Maher – New Rule

I like this rule. From HuffPo: New Rule: Let’s not fire the teachers when students don’t learn – let’s fire the parents. Last week President Obama defended the firing of every single teacher in a struggling high school in a poor Rhode Island neighborhood. And the kids were outraged. They said, “Why blame our teachers?” and “Who’s President Obama?” I think it was Whitney Houston who said, “I believe that children are our future – teach them well and let them lead the way.” And that’s the last sound piece of educational advice this country has gotten – from a crack

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Obama at Notre Dame

From Obama’s speech: The question, then — the question then is how do we work through these conflicts?  Is it possible for us to join hands in common effort?  As citizens of a vibrant and varied democracy, how do we engage in vigorous debate?  How does each of us remain firm in our principles, and fight for what we consider right, without, as Father John said, demonetizing those with just as strongly held convictions on the other side? And of course, nowhere do these questions come up more powerfully than on the issue of abortion. As I considered the controversy surrounding

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40 years ago this week MLK was killed

It is kind of amazing. 40 years ago. I was 7 years old. I was old enough to understand the feeling that hung over my house that day. The feeling that something terrible had happened. There have been a lot of comparisons of Barack Obama and Martin Luther King. Although they were both Black men with extreme intelligence, they were both products of their environment. King grew out of the church. Obama has grown out of America’s educational system. They aren’t the same man. They are both leaders. I’m looking forward to the special on the History Channel.

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