Re: Kids.....(Easy scapegoats aren't they?)

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: WJCarpenter <bill-ip () carpenter org>
Date: November 16, 2008 11:58:56 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
Subject: Re: [IP] WORTH READING    Kids.....(Easy scapegoats aren't  
they?)


> Interestingly, this thread reminds me of Bill Gates blaming schools  
> and kids for the messed up state of America and its education  
> system.  Here is Bill Gates’ critique of dumb American kids and the  
> rules he thinks American kids fail to live by, because educators are  
> too soft on them!

A more-likely-to-be-correct attribution is given here:  http://www.snopes.com/language/document/liferule.asp

They say it comes from this book:  http://www.amazon.com/Dumbing-Down-Our-Kids-Themselves/dp/0312148232





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