Okay the school just made
us go to the library to sign a petition
for K-12 education to be on the list of
constitutional rights, I looked at this
and came to the conclusion that they where
not going to accomplish anything, so I
sent them a letter via their "tell a
story" page that went like this There is
only one small problem with America today
and that is its lack of thought. Your
petition, while its heart is in the right
place, will do nothing to change this.
There are hundreds of people out there who
assume they are smart because they can
recite the names of all the presidents in
order. These people think they are smart
because they can spit out trivia for a
teacher. I can teach a relatively smart
parrot to do the same. This is not the
same as thinking; thinking is when a
student takes seemingly unrelated facts
and pulls them together to make a new
thought. That is thinking, that is what
cannot be taught. so ill probably get a
very nasty letter in my e-mail soon, in
case you want to check it out the site is
at
www.oured.org/pages/sign-the-petition