Speaker 1: Well, The New York Times published an article the other
Speaker 1: day that must have made every liberal reader orgasmic. Silicon
Speaker 1: Valley billionaires are remaking American schools. Some of them are
Speaker 1: offering grants to encourage innovation. Others, like Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook,
Speaker 1: are taking a more profitable approach. He's got software in
Speaker 1: a hundred schools which supposedly puts kids in charge of
Speaker 1: their own learning and turns teachers into facilitators and mentors. Obviously,
Speaker 1: if his software takes off, it's a huge market and
Speaker 1: paid for by taxpayers, not Zuckerberg. Now, while these rich
Speaker 1: and influential titans of technology are focused on education, millions
Speaker 1: of students are serving as the facto beta testers for
Speaker 1: their ideas. As The Times puts it. Anyway, that's sure
Speaker 1: to bring a smile to every liberal. I mean, this
Speaker 1: has all the elements, rich, successful progressive tech gurus on
Speaker 1: federal subsidies giving back to the community beta testing their kids.
Speaker 1: But in reality, this is a damning indictment of the
Speaker 1: state of public education when all the money American taxpayers
Speaker 1: have poured into it for decades, we ought to have
Speaker 1: the best education system in the world now, not years.
Speaker 1: In the future, and we shouldn't need these tech titans
Speaker 1: to do it. Instead, we have massive institutional failure, an
Speaker 1: education system that has been run into the ground biliberals
Speaker 1: and their unions in the first place, and unless that's acknowledged,
Speaker 1: new technology, no matter how great, will not turn it around.
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