Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Gates: "What I've learned about great teachers" --Nothing!

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Gates: "What I've learned about great teachers" --Nothing!

Gates: "What I've learned about great teachers" --Nothing!

by Mike Klonsky

Bill Gates shows he's still a pompous ass and an educational no-nothing in this Parade Magazine interview with Paul Tough. From the headline, "What I've leaned about Great Teachers" (he never tells us) you'd expect Gates to be somewhat contrite and a little less assuming. But he can't help himself. He loves to draw big conclusions based on little or evidence and make big negative public pronouncements about how terrible teachers and public schools are. Remember when he he pitched small schools as the single panacea for public education (we told him it wasn't so). The he flipped,