reason.com - 3/5/2009
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While researching this week's column , I was struck by this passage about education in President Obama's recent speech to Congress (emphasis added): It is our responsibility as lawmakers and educators to make this system work. But it is the responsibility of every citizen to participate ...
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The President explains the urgency of changing the
way we educate our children, and offers four pillars...
of reform.
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JACOB SULLUM: Ask not what your education can do for you . . . “The collectivism implicit in this…
Instapundit —
JACOB SULLUM: Ask not what your education can do for you . . . “The collectivism implicit in this rhetoric is pretty creepy.” Well, that’s a change.
Plus this:
Evidently each of us has a duty to optimize our educations so we can maximize our earnings and give our country the full benefit of our talents. “Every American will need to get more than a high school diploma,” Obama decrees. But why stop there? If someone with strong mathematical and spatial reasoning abilities majors in sociology instead of engineering, it’s plain that he will not be giving ...
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Jacob Sullum is alarmed by the “collectivism” implicit in President Obama’s recent speech to Congress, quoting the following passage [HatTip to InstaPundit]:
It is our responsibility as lawmakers and educators to make this system work. But it is the responsibility of every citizen to participate in it. And so tonight, I ask every American to commit to at least one year or more of higher education or career training. This can be community college or a four-year school; vocational training or an apprenticeship. But whatever the training may be, every American will ...
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