[lbo-talk] Ravitch v. Gates

[Mark Wain]

I would like to say that Bill Gates is wrong in using his business 
experience to reform academic and educational institutions. Academic and 
educational endeavors have nothing to do with private-profit seeking 
process. Being a humongous capitalist does not necessarily qualify him to 
give orders to teachers and educational systems.  Besides, he keeps hiring 
the best and brightest technical producer-workers in his invested industries 
almost free, getting states concessions in taxes, land and monopolized perks 
and government’s “socialist” assistance of returning a major portion of his 
tax money back to him in the form of profits generated from purchases of his 
products. He has gotten his human capital almost free. Now he has the nerve 
to complain about education. What a hypocrite he is!

Teachers are the conscience of the society. They work for the society 
directly and not for personal gain in finance so long as the society can 
provide them a reasonable degree of livable compensations. Gates is railing 
at everyone who is incorruptible by the filthy lucre of capitalists to be 
deadwood and in other denigrating terms. The educational issues are mostly 
the products of the destructive monopoly capitalism at its late stage. The 
anti-humanity and anti-society natures of the late-stage capitalism are what 
have caused the education and other social programs to deteriorate. The 
society and the people must get rid of the systemic destruction of 
capitalism before society can truly save the deteriorating education and 
other social programs. It is futile to reform education without reforming 
capitalism as a system of destruction itself whether voluntarily or under 
pressure from mass movements.

 Mark

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From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
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Subject: [lbo-talk] Ravitch v. Gates


>A spirited critique of Bill Gates from Diane Ravitch:
>
> http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/diane-ravitch/ravitch-answers-gates.html
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