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Bill Gates Proclaims US High Schools Obsolete

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-coulda-told-you-that dept.

bryan sent us a story about Bill Gates' take on US High Schools. He says 'America's high schools are obsolete. By obsolete, I don't just mean that they're broken, flawed or underfunded, though a case could be made for every one of those points. By obsolete, I mean our high schools even when they're working as designed cannot teach all our students what they need to know today.'"

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  1. who cares? by lampajoo · · Score: 0, Troll

    fuck him

  2. Yep, its useless by dasunt · · Score: 0, Troll

    hiskool is ful of uceless klasses such as histery, englesh, and ekonomiks.

    i like komputers, y do i nede to lern to spel? y do i nede to no ekonomiks and histery, that is wat king bush is fer. i kan fokus on komputers and he wil kil the bad gise and get me jobs.

    no hiskool was gud enuf for king moses, and its gud enuf fer me!

  3. Bill Gates is a bum by dtjohnson · · Score: 0, Troll

    Bill Gates is a guy with essentially a high school education who presides over one of the largest and most oppressive monopoly corporations ever created. Having him advise us on better educational approaches is a little like Al Capone advising us on better tax collection methods.

    In a larger sense, though, his argument is essentially the perennial 'training' vs. 'education' argument. Training proponents such as Gates would have us all learn 'skills' that quickly become obsolete anyway (this is also what communist countries typically advocate) while 'education' proponents recognize the value of an educated populace capable of independent thinking about a variety of topics.