Joanna
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Wain" <wtkh at comcast.net> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Thursday, December 2, 2010 12:47:36 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Ravitch v. Gates
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
----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 12:11 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] Ravitch v. Gates
>A spirited critique of Bill Gates from Diane Ravitch:
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> http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/diane-ravitch/ravitch-answers-gates.html
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