1
00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,120
Speaker 1: Well, The New York Times published an article the other

2
00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:07,560
Speaker 1: day that must have made every liberal reader orgasmic. Silicon

3
00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:11,320
Speaker 1: Valley billionaires are remaking American schools. Some of them are

4
00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:15,640
Speaker 1: offering grants to encourage innovation. Others, like Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook,

5
00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:19,560
Speaker 1: are taking a more profitable approach. He's got software in

6
00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:22,919
Speaker 1: a hundred schools which supposedly puts kids in charge of

7
00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:27,720
Speaker 1: their own learning and turns teachers into facilitators and mentors. Obviously,

8
00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:30,960
Speaker 1: if his software takes off, it's a huge market and

9
00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:34,840
Speaker 1: paid for by taxpayers, not Zuckerberg. Now, while these rich

10
00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:39,640
Speaker 1: and influential titans of technology are focused on education, millions

11
00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:42,640
Speaker 1: of students are serving as the facto beta testers for

12
00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:46,280
Speaker 1: their ideas. As The Times puts it. Anyway, that's sure

13
00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:49,159
Speaker 1: to bring a smile to every liberal. I mean, this

14
00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:53,640
Speaker 1: has all the elements, rich, successful progressive tech gurus on

15
00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:58,959
Speaker 1: federal subsidies giving back to the community beta testing their kids.

16
00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,960
Speaker 1: But in reality, this is a damning indictment of the

17
00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:06,039
Speaker 1: state of public education when all the money American taxpayers

18
00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:08,640
Speaker 1: have poured into it for decades, we ought to have

19
00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:11,880
Speaker 1: the best education system in the world now, not years.

20
00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:14,280
Speaker 1: In the future, and we shouldn't need these tech titans

21
00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:18,880
Speaker 1: to do it. Instead, we have massive institutional failure, an

22
00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,280
Speaker 1: education system that has been run into the ground biliberals

23
00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:25,760
Speaker 1: and their unions in the first place, and unless that's acknowledged,

24
00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:30,160
Speaker 1: new technology, no matter how great, will not turn it around.

25
00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:34,960
Speaker 1: H