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Originally Posted by artdutra04
: Alright, here is a little more political comments.
This is like one of my favorite quotes from my physical education teacher. "You have twenty tomato plants: ten of them are perfectly healthy, and the other ten are barely surviving. You only have enough fertilizer for ten plants. Do you give the fertilizer to the ten plants that are practically dead, and hope for a 30% increase in the amounts of tomatoes they produce, or do you give the fertilizer to the ten healthy plants, which would result in an increase of their tomato output of 80%? Sadly, 9 out of ten times the govermnent tries to squeeze tomatoes out of dead plants." Anyway, now that I have stepped off the soap box, those are my two cents. |
Who was your Phys Eds professor at college? Dr E. Scrooge? He really believes the poor and uneducation should be left to die, and decrease the surplus population?
Students are not tomato plants. Our public education system is intended to avoid the very situation that Charles Dickens wrote about in 'A Christmas Carol': our society spawing children like the allegorical figures of Ignorance and Want, who appear to Scrooge as two "wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable" children.
In eduaction there is a critical mass of knowledge. Once a person reaches a certain level they are able to take on responsibility for their own (life long) continued education.
Children who never learn to read have no hope.
[Politics and/or religion on a public forum: here we go again!]