Coxsackie-Athens High School Valedictorian Erica Goldson makes valiant use of her graduation speech to selflessly rip the American educational system a new one.
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Monday, 16 August 2010
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While she was right about many things, she failed to realize that the "evil corporations" provide many jobs. Not everyone can be a "thinker". She reminded me of some sort of Obama-bot who thinks that if we just get rid of our eeevil military and the eeevil corporations, we will make a utopian society.
Yes, our school system is badly broken, but wow.
Sounds like she thinks she's been robbed. Great head...bad attitude. Education takes discipline. Self exploration wil not work in most serious approaches to education.Not all subject are open to debate. Most worthwhile subjects are empirical and objective. Educations first goal is to learn about the world around us. Once a child enters school it is time to start learning about the real world outside of the protective cocoon of the home where "self" is created. She sounded good but i guess education to her should be a free-for-all. This approach would surely result in a bunch of brain dead robots who will ecentually end uo being "useful idiots". She should try ignorance on for size and see how liberating that can be.
Bad attitude...but well educated. Really can't tell which is more prevalent. She could get a navel gazing type education but then she would grow up to be a "useful idiot". Sorry young lady. Education demands structure and discipline. I guess she may be right in the sense that the system sure did a number on her. Oh my, those evil corporations. The left (teachers,unions) sees evil and the rest of us see opportunity.
Anon,
I hear you and it was a bit like an environmentalist driving in his SUV to an oil spill protest. But she was more right than wrong.
I also agree with her that everyone can be a thinker. Like everything else, that does mean equality of outcome.
I have told my daughter that her best friends are who, what, when, where, how and why. She has been reminded that she will often be asked to regurgitate information that she may disagree with in order to meet the misguided expectations of certain teachers.
School is like music theory. Once you learn the rules, you must then learn to break those rules.
Regarding corporate America, I am amazed at how many jobs have been created to simply follow the "rules", which are often devoid of common sense.
Thinking is often punished versus rewarded.
If America is to survive the Obama and left-wing onslaught, then many more people are going to need to learn to think for themselves.
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