Rupert Murdoch labels US Education System a Crime against Children..!

[jackovesk]

Rupert Murdoch labels US education system a crime

October 15, 2011

RUPERT Murdoch has labelled the US education system a "crime against our children".



He said it needs visionaries of the calibre of the late Apple founder Steve Jobs to reform it.

"We need to tear down an education system designed for the 19th century and replace it with one that's suited for the 21st," said Mr Murdoch at an education conference in San Franscisco.

"And we need to approach the education industry the way my friend Steve Jobs approached every industry."

The chairman and chief executive of News Corporation (ultimate publisher of The Weekend Australian), said high dropout rates and general underachievement in US schools needed to be transformed.

"The standards for America's public schools are lower than our standards for American Idol," Mr Murdoch said.

"Most American classrooms haven't changed much since the days of Grover Cleveland. You have a teacher, a piece of chalk, a blackboard - and a room full of kids.

"Put simply, we must approach education the way Steve Jobs approached every industry he touched.

"To be willing to blow up what doesn't work or gets in the way.

"And to make our bet that if we can engage a child's imagination, there's no limit to what he or she can learn."

Mr Murdoch said better-trained teachers, technology and a competitive educational marketplace would produce a better system than the one that was suffering from a crisis of imagination and crisis of rising costs.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/medi...-1226167108165

PS - Well Rupert you Old Bastard, for once I am going to Agree with You..!

I'm sure there must be a 'Hidden Angle' in there somewhere though..?

Or...Maybe its just time for Ruperts PR Team to Ramp-Up his Image after the News Of the World fiasco...Yeh, that makes more sense..!

[Calz]

Or...Maybe its just time for Ruperts PR Team to Ramp-Up his Image after the News Of the World fiasco...Yeh, that makes more sense..!

That's the one that gets my vote

Murdoch is no champion for our children ...

[KiwiElf]

As an ex lecturer at an Auckland University, I'd agree with that to a point: it's not the teachers, it's the beaurocracy and the system. Trust me, the teachers know only too well what should be taught. Ask yourselves, how much of your [compulsory] education is of any value in your lives today? Do we need algebra? A false "history"?

A child is at his or her most creative point at about the age of 5. Within 2 years of attending school, this creative potential has dropped to less than 2%.

And as a teacher, God help you if you say anything against the "system": you are "gone".

Go figure.

[Seikou-Kishi]

He clearly thinks the drop-out rate, while high, could be higher.

[Coaxial]

The man is an efin lizzard..... Looking for a good pr spin but the fact still remains we can't keep enough money from state to state to pay teachers, let alone pay for multiple wars as a collective!

[modwiz]

Posted by Calz_Avaretard (here)

Or...Maybe its just time for Ruperts PR Team to Ramp-Up his Image after the News Of the World fiasco...Yeh, that makes more sense..!

That's the one that gets my vote

Murdoch is no champion for our children ...

No champion for the human race either. Of course, he ceded from us some time ago.

[ulli]

Funny. When I first learnt about the Murdoch agenda it was in conjunction with the "dumbing down the public" agenda.
What happened? His "good friend" Steve Jobs got him to think otherwise?

[oceanz]

Perhaps he wants computers in every classroom so he can run advertisements or phone, er, computer tap them...

[Positive Vibe Merchant]

that is where my thoughts were going too Oceanz... Ever classroom of america that has his products = money, and lots of it.