Money Does Not Make One Smart
Or an expert.
I know that’s hard for some Americans to believe. Or, rather, feel because the equating of material wealth with spiritual, moral and other types of worthiness is not a thought but a gut feeling/mass delusion.
In Waiting for Superman, Bill Gates is referred to as an “education expert.” What qualifies him as such? The Gates Foundation money poured into charter schools and related entities? Or is it this TED talk from February 2009 in which he compares malaria to education, comparing one “simple solution” to another?
So, it’s simple. All you need are those top quartile teachers….So it’s going to take brilliant people like you to study these things, get other people involved — and you’re helping to come up with solutions. And with that, I think there’s some great things that will come out of it.
So what’s the problem? Education is not a disease, or disease process, with a single cause and predictable
