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Jordan Peterson & the Late Steve Jobs on Public Education
Just going to place this right here. The late Steve Jobs explains what’s wrong with public education.
Here’s Jordan Peterson discussing the Canadian public education system.
That much different than what’s been happening in America?
“As soon as the state tells you that you can’t pull your kids out of school, it’s immediately time to pull them out of school.” – 2:20
Word.
Love it! Thanks for introducing me to Peterson’s work, Brian!
Jobs is so right about education. Right now it is a plodding bureaucracy, smart people with ambition and drive tend to get out! I know smart teachers who love kids and teaching and they stay for their passion, but they learn to live fettered in a system no longer dedicated to effectively teaching students. How much better could education be if it were a race and competition among the best minds and most passionate? His brief reference to the young attacking this is insightful. The movers and shakers of schools tend to be older and less energetic, not always a bad thing when you want to preserve a good system, deadly when you are trapped in yesteryear’s failed experiments run amok.
Teacher’s unions are about protecting and promoting the interests of teachers, not the children they teach. According to former general counsel to the NEA, Bob Chanin, a few years ago, the actual mission of educating children over the interests of union dues paying members is too high of a price to pay. And that the millions of dues paying members make sure it is powerful enough to keep it that way.