tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907677492250052991.post741851717426456639..comments2023-10-18T05:06:49.026-05:00Comments on Missouri Education Watchdog: Quiz for the Day..."Can Monopolies be Tweaked into Self-Perpetuating Excellence"?dsmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01501964533388756254noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907677492250052991.post-49627692492390293232010-10-01T07:40:32.115-05:002010-10-01T07:40:32.115-05:00Bill Ayers brother, Rick Ayers, wrote an article i...Bill Ayers brother, Rick Ayers, wrote an article in the Washington Post: <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/guest-bloggers/what-superman-got-wrong-point.html" rel="nofollow"> "What ‘Superman’ got wrong, point by point"</a>, which is interesting... and by interesting, I mean in the sort of way that it's interesting to see how criminals go about their 'work'.<br /><br /><i>"If we understand education as a civil right, even a human right as defined by the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, we know it can’t be distributed by a lottery."</i><br /><br />A wiz at equivocation and half-truths, for him it's all about money, centralized control, and 'Rights' as entitlements which government must give to all.<br /><br />Just as wrong as the Gates/Buffet angle and all the rest.<br /><br />A little less concern about <i>how</i> to deliver education, and a little more concern about <i>what</i> an Education is, might be something better for them to focus on. But then of course they'd discover that all their new technologies & boatloads of cash don't mean squat, and that parental choice and control are the real Rights involved.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.com