Sunday, October 22, 2006

Dr. of Socialism in Training

The New York Times has published an op-ed piece written by Rebecca Jacobsen.  Ms. Jacobsen, per the short bio at the end of the piece, is “a former teacher” and is currently a “doctoral candidate in the politics and education program” at Teachers College, Columbia Universtiy.

It is indeed a sorry state of affairs that such a program exists, because it produces individuals, in this case Ms. Jacobsen, who have the audacity to state things like this.

One of the most important functions of school is to teach citizenship and community responsibility to each new generation.

Shouldn’t the most important function of schools be to teach individuals to learn history, math, spelling, and English, and to instill a thirst for additional knowledge by encouraging students to continually ask questions of the world which surrounds them, rather than to create automatons spouting the party line?

Ms. Jacobsen’s op-ed piece is titled Press #1 for a Bad Idea.

Posted by John Venlet on 10/22 at 01:58 PM
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