Moskowitz, Ron. 1970. "Professor Sees Peril in Education." San Francisco Chronicle (30 October). Governor Reagan's aide Roger Freeman, who later served as President Nixon's educational policy advisor, while he was working at the time for California Governor Ronald Reagan's reelection campaign, commented on Reagan's education policy: "We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite! We have to be selective about who we allow to through higher education. If not, we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people."
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > Dan Scanlan wrote: >> I'm wondering if a more salient juxtaposition would be between the denials >> you mention and Ronald Reagan's destruction of UC whe he was governor which >> is the pivotal point when the planets's rectal orifici realized that they >> could, indeed, reverse the trend toward universal and affordable education. >> No child left behind is too recent perhaps to have much of a quantifiable >> impact yet. But Reagan going after the antiwar alternative lifestyle >> freethinkers has had plenty of time to screw things up.< > > yes, but it's more than Reagan. Focusing on California, the rich > (backed by many retired homeowners who didn't want to pay property > taxes, etc.) decided[*] that public education could be starved > without hurting their children (who could go to private schools). The > rich children would learn how to give orders at private schools while > everyone else would learn how to obey (or would go to jail). > Unfortunately, lowering the standards of public schools leads to > poorer private schools, too, since the quality of the latter is judged > _relative_ to other schools. But then again, what's important at > private schools is the contacts one gets, the superior attitudes one > assumes, etc. > > [*] The rich didn't literally "decide" this. They were pushed into it > in response to busing for racial integration, high property taxes in > the 1970s, legal decisions encouraging equal funding of public > schools, etc. Then it became a GOP principle of unity, etc. > -- > Jim Devine / "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to > be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But > in poetry, it's the exact opposite." -- Paul Dirac > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
