Hubris Of The Hoch-Tech
Written by redqueeninla in Education
What is it with high tech entrepreneurs and the hubris of their bastardized version of noblesse oblige?
First came Bill Gates with his “philanthrocapitalism” and in particular his focus on education philanthropy. The effort to overlay pedagogy with business practice have been problematic, to say the least, from his aborted small schools project to the current crusade for the common core.
This brand of libertarianism that insists corporations are entitled to eclipse the public sector while self-righteously claiming disinterest in politics, is hardly unique.
Think, for example, of David Welch and his privately bankrolled assault on public education teachers. His skirmish neatly dovetails with a long list of other such offensives led by one curiously removed “ideologue” after another. Consider, then, as an archetype the non-educator, non-public school parent Bill Gates’ “non-political” assault on teachers, their competency that his empire conveniently wishes to measure, and the propensity for poor children to disproportionately receive the short end of the “good-teacher” stick.
These investors cry “foul” all the way to the bank, expressing authenticconcern for the welfare of the needy through solutions that coincidentally enrich them materially; often denying the constitutional handicap of their circumstances.
The latest folderol foisted by the overly-rich on the rest of us (cf that 2000 state proposition mentioned above) is this scheme of Tim Draper’s to isolate Hubris Of The Hoch-Tech – redqueeninla: