The Answer Sheet - BRADY: When captains of business and industry ‘hijacked’ education--and teachers let them:
"MEMO: TO THE MEMBERS OF MY PROFESSION
'We have met the enemy, and he is us,' said Pogo.
We educators should make the wise little opossum from Walt Kelly’s comic strip our mascot.
The single worst shoot-yourself-in-the-foot act that contributed to our loss of control of education reform happened about 20 years ago. That’s when leaders of business and industry, convinced that educators either didn’t know enough or didn’t care enough about educating the young to be trusted, hijacked our profession. And we let them."
"MEMO: TO THE MEMBERS OF MY PROFESSION
'We have met the enemy, and he is us,' said Pogo.
We educators should make the wise little opossum from Walt Kelly’s comic strip our mascot.
The single worst shoot-yourself-in-the-foot act that contributed to our loss of control of education reform happened about 20 years ago. That’s when leaders of business and industry, convinced that educators either didn’t know enough or didn’t care enough about educating the young to be trusted, hijacked our profession. And we let them."