Our Education Spring: The public school system reveals the American heart.

[Chiquitita]

An absolutely great speech by John Kuhn, delivered on March 1, 2014, at the University of Texas in Austin at the Network for Public Education Conference. The whole, eloquent text is here: http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2014/03/john_kuhn_speaks_at_the_npe_co.html


http://vimeo.com/87984834

Excerpt: "The public school system reveals the American heart. This system, because it's us, in action--and I don't mean "us" as teachers, but "us" as a people, "us" as a nation, as voters and citizens, charged with investing in and maintaining schools for our kids, schools for all kids, charged with sharing America's wealth with one another because a house divided can't stand, charged with caring and loving across our internal boundary lines, across our color lines and our language lines and our culture lines--because public education is made of and by and for the public, it can never be any better or worse than we are. If our schools are sick, it's because our society is sick. And if our schools are well, then we are doing something right."

[adirondacker]

1. Spot on! Thanks for posting! nt

[BrotherIvan]

2. We are a divided society

The media and Washington have done an excellent job of dividing us for their own ends. We need a LEADER who can create a vision of a new community and part of that is creating a viable solution for schools. Arne Duncan was one of the worst appointments of the Obama administration and showed, quite clearly, that the agenda for much of the administration was merely reactive to corporate interests. There was no plan. If there was, it was so bad, they were unwilling to share it.