Pffff
"Teachers are the ultimate tools"
You can say that again, I worked at an FE (hah!) college for a while, and there wasn't one of them that didn't deserve stabbing.
Intel chairman Craig Barrett got political at the opening of the Intel Developer Forum this morning, taking aim at the US’ records on education, healthcare and investment in R&D. Intel billed Barrett as the world’s ambassador for IT, but he was decidedly un-diplomatic in his opening keynote, excoriating the US government for …
it's because many of the good ones left in disgust (or refuse to join) a system of idiot bureaucrats who are more and more is taking decisions about education away from those most qualified to make them, and instead treating the teachers simply as replaceable resources to be blamed for everything but not given the authority to change anything?
Just perhaps?
US Govt "failing to back innovation or stem the decline in the public education system"
Okay as far as it goes, he left out the bits about keeping healthcare unaffordable, driving the last world power towards bankruptcy and ruin, and making the world a worse place. Maybe there's a sequel planned.