[Edu-sig] Things to come

[Dustin James Mitchell]

Art, I'm afraid I lose you after the second paragraph of the following.
Can you explain a little bit of what you mean?  My jury's still out on the
voucher issue too, so I'd like to understand your viewpoint here.

Dustin

On Fri, 12 May 2000, Arthur Siegel wrote:

> I don't understand the point of the greatest teaching language and
> interface on the planet, without a curriculum.
> 
> Other than cottage industry efforts like Kirby's and mine - how does
> that happen, short of going hat-in-hand to Disney.
> 
> If Disney just wanted to quietly hand out endowments to the worthy, great.
> 
> But their advertisement on Sunday afternoon said nothing (other than
> 'Disney' and 'Learning')
> and would have funded maybe a 100 computer labs. More polemic. 100
> inner-city computer labs.
> 
> To me it would be tremendously naive to believe that the extent of their
> interest in education in America is as a concerned corporate citizen, even
> if they
> might believe it themselves - today.
> 
> This analysis is not coming from a left or anarchist view-point.
> 
> But I am re-thinking my pro-voucher position.
> 
> 
> 
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