More Food for Education Thought
Fran Lebowitz in an interview with Mirabella in 1994: When asked what she would do as President she said: I would be the education dictator. First, I would federalize the public school system. (She was speaking of getting kids into educational setting as early as possible.) I would make them wear uniforms. I think there's nothing more unattractive than fashion-consciousness in children. I would teach the 3Rs, give or take arithmetic. I'd also teach them how to eat. People will think table manners are a stupid thing to talk about if you're running the world, but civility is, after all, the key to civilization. It used to be that school reinforced things that you heard fifty thousand times at home. From What I've Learned: Neil Young Our education system basically strives for normal - which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside. (Note: all of his c...