The problem with education is this: The world is run by business men and those trained in business only see the bottom line and streamlined means to get there. Because of "No Child Left Behind," which too many have not understood since its inception, as well as a greed-embracing country run more and more with an eye on only that bottom line, all aspects of American education are being scrutinized through the uncompromising, fact-based, inappropriate eye of either saving or actually making money. This myopic, heartless view negates the necessity for virtue, the element in education that truly defines it.
School is not a business but rather a living, breathing creature of nature, an animal made up of many thousands of beating hearts, pumping limbs, thinking brains and giggling souls. This American treasure thrives and grows, learns and succeeds due to nurturing, not dollars. Whatever the discussion about education, make no mistake, if we forget this fact we are doomed. Filling our schools with money mongers, mapping a plan to create an infrastructure of profit, we are blindly paving a road of gold towards nowhere.
Nowhere will you find a story of a teacher who reached students because she was paid more money. Nowhere will you find a story where a student prospered because he took a test. The success is when a young lady realizes her inspired words in a poem are worthy of praise. Children remember teachers who encouraged and inspired them. Students take risks, become leaders in communities and give back to the common good because someone has taught them the value of human virtue, the maturity in putting others first, the strength in helping the poor and weak. Without this, we are raising selfish terrors who will someday consume us.
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