From the farm
posted in General |In the hey day of rural America there were any number of periodicals that featured gems of wisdom from the farm folks. A memorable one (for me) was “You can take a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink” How true it is. You don’t hear this old axiom very ofter nowadays, but it is truer than ever — particularly when it comes to education.
In the last 3-4 decades we have spend ungodly amounts on education — at all levels, pre-school. elementary, secondary, College, Graduate school, etc. Hundreds of millions. And the solution posed by all of the Pro-Ed people is just to keep throwing money at the problem. But obviously, that simple solution doesn’t work, and virtually all of the data compiled affirms that conclusion. Don’t grade students, don’t encourage competition, don’t use tests, don’t enforce discipline. And what does all of that get us?? The plain fact is that kids will get educated when they want to be educated — and that falls on the shoulders of parents. No one else.
You can hire the best teachers, pay them more, build super facilities and spend more an more and more — and just keep pumping the money down what seems to be an endlessly deep hole. But we still get “graduates” who can’t read or write but can utterly disrupt the school operations. Are most of these kids inner city blacks? Yes they are — and at the risk of being branded a racist or bigot, I’m willing to stand up when the facts are on my side. Just as you can’t take a horse to water and make him drink, you can’t take black hoodlums to school and MAKE them learn. If they ever learn, it will be when they WANT to learn.
For me it is very disappointing to see and hear Bill Cosby speak to the obvious while so many black “leaders” keep spouting the old story –” Victimhood” and “White man’s problem”. Baloney, Every minority that ever came to this country fought their way upward and earned a place in this society, and they were led by leaders who didn’t just sit back and whimper and whine. That’s what is so contemptuous about Bab Bam’s preacher. Disgusting.
The secondary schools are burdened by far too many who just don’t want to learn — and many of their black leaders support them.