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San Jose Mercury-News ".... Brown took aim at the proliferation of laws and regulations that he
said put a stranglehold on Californians -- and used 16th century French writer
Michel de Montaigne to make his point.
""Distant authorities crack the whip, demanding quantitative measures and a stark, single number to encapsulate the precise achievement level of every child," he said. "We seem to think that education is a thing -- like a vaccine -- that can be designed from afar and simply injected into our children. But as the Irish poet William Butler Yeats said, 'Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.'"
Great words, but what Obamite would ever utter them or even think such thoughts?
"As legislators, it is your duty and privilege to pass laws," he said. "But what we need to do for our future will require more than producing hundreds of new laws each year.""Brown lashed out at the "overly complex, bureaucratically driven and deeply inequitable" education funding system, which he wants to reform so that more money gets to schools with disadvantaged students. And he criticized the "tightly constrained curricula," saying "performance metrics are invoked like talismans.
""Distant authorities crack the whip, demanding quantitative measures and a stark, single number to encapsulate the precise achievement level of every child," he said. "We seem to think that education is a thing -- like a vaccine -- that can be designed from afar and simply injected into our children. But as the Irish poet William Butler Yeats said, 'Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.'"
Great words, but what Obamite would ever utter them or even think such thoughts?
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