213. Evolution or Eradication of Education
Bill
Gates’s $5 Biillion Plan to Videotape America’s Teachers
by Valerie Strauss
บิล เกตส์ มีแผนทุ่มเงิน
$5 พันล้าน เพื่อถ่ายวีดีโอครูทั้งหมดของอเมริกา
โดย แวเลอรี สเตร๊าส์
ดรุณี
ตันติวิรมานนท์ แปล
If,
say, Dennis van Roekel or Randi Weingarten, the presidents of the nation’s two
national teachers unions, proposed
spending as much as $5 billion to videotape every teacher
in the United States so their performance could be judged by strangers as part
of their evaluation, you can bet that they would be called nutty spendthrifts.
By everyone.
หากคนอย่าง เดนนิส รูเกล หรือ
เรนดี ไวนการ์เตน, ประธานของสหภาพครูแห่งชาติ ๒ แห่งในประเทศ, เสนอว่าจะทุ่มเงิน $5
พันล้าน เพื่อถ่ายวีดีโอครูทุกคนในสหรัฐฯ เพื่อว่า
การแสดงของพวกเขาจะได้ถูกคนแปลกหน้าพิจารณาตัดสินในฐานะที่เป็นส่วนหนึ่งของกระบวนการประเมินผล,
คุณพนันได้เลยว่า พวกเขาจะต้องถูกตั้งฉายาว่าเป็น ไอ้บ้าฟุ่มเฟือย. โดยทุกๆ คน.
Bill Gates delivering his TED Talk on
videotaping teachers.(Photo: Ryan Lash)
Why,
then, do people applaud Bill Gates, the vastly wealthy Microsoft founder, for
making the same proposal? (I know, I know — it’s because he’s the vastly
wealthy founder of Microsoft and America’s loves its billionaires.)
แล้วทำไม คนยังปรบมือให้ บิล
เกตส์, ผู้ก่อตั้งไมโครซอฟต์ ที่ร่ำรวยอย่างมหึมา,
สำหรับข้อเสนออย่างเดียวกัน? (ฉันรู้,
ฉันรู้--ก็เพราะเขาเป็นผู้ก่อตั้งไมโครซอฟต์ ที่ร่ำรวยอย่างมหึมา และ
เป็นเศรษฐีพันล้านอันเป็นที่รักของอเมริกา.)
Actually,
this is not just a proposal by Gates. This is one of his pet projects, and,
through his Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he has for several years been
funding videotaping experiments of thousands of teachers as part of his overall
push to revamp teacher evaluation. The videotapes are sent to evaluators who
have never been in the school but have a list of teaching skills to check off
as they watch.
อันที่จริง,
นี่ไม่ใช่เป็นเพียงข้อเสนอโดยเกตส์.
มันเป็นโครงการ “สัตว์เลี้ยงตัวโปรด” หนึ่งของเขา, และ, ด้วยช่องทาง
มูลนิธิ บิลและเมลินดา เกตส์, เขาได้ให้ทุนมาหลายๆ
ปีในการทดลองถ่ายวีดีโอครูหลายพันคน ให้เป็นส่วนหนึ่งของการผลักดันให้เกิดการปรับปรุงกระบวนการประเมินผลครู. วีดีโอเหล่านี้ ถูกส่งไปยังผู้ประเมิน
ผู้ไม่เคยไปโรงเรียนนั้น แต่มีรายการทักษะการสอน
เพื่อเช็คแบบปรนัยในระหว่างการชมวีดีโอ.
Gates
keeps promoting this project, having just given a new TED Talk (see video and
transcript below) about his plan to videotape every teacher in America. In his
talk, he said that building such a system could cost up to $5
billion, and while he recognizes that that is “a big number,” still, “it’s less
than two percent of what we spend every year on teacher salaries.”
เกตส์ได้เที่ยวโปรโมทโครงการนี้,
ด้วยการแสดงปาฐกถาใหม่ที่รายการ TED Talk
(ดูวีดีโอและถอดเทปข้างท้าย) เกี่ยวกับแผนการของเขาในการถ่ายวีดีโอครูทุกๆ
คนในอเมริกา. ในปาฐกถาของเขา, เขากล่าวว่า
การสร้างระบบเช่นนี้ ต้องใช้เงินถึง $5 พันล้าน, และในขณะที่เขาตระหนักว่า มันเป็น
“ตัวเลขที่ใหญ่โต”, ก็ยัง “น้อยกว่า 2%
ของเงินเดือนครูที่เราต้องจ่ายทุกปี”.
You’d
think that someone spending that kind of money would know for sure that the
approach is the very best and without a doubt provides desired results. But
Gates doesn’t know that because by the accounts of people who know — educators,
his approach isn’t the right one. Videotaped feedback can help a teacher,
critics say, only if it is done by people within a school, and should be used
only for teacher development, not for evaluation. (A good way to do it is
explained here, by veteran educator Larry Ferlazzo.)
คุณคงคิดว่า
บางคนที่จ่ายเงินขนาดนั้น คงจะรู้ดีว่า แนวทางนั้น ดีที่สุด และปราศจากข้อสงสัยใดๆ
จะทำให้เกิดผลตามปรารถนา. แต่เกตส์
ไม่รู้เช่นนั้น เพราะว่า ในส่วนของผู้รู้—นักการศึกษา, แนวทางของเขา
ไม่ถูกต้อง.
การใช้วีดีโอเพื่อรับฟังเสียงสะท้อนกลับ สามารถช่วยครูได้,
นักวิพากษ์กล่าว, หากทำโดยคนในโรงเรียนเดียวกัน, และ ควรใช้เพื่อการพัฒนาครู,
ไม่ใช่เพื่อการประเมินผล. (วิธีที่ดี
จะอธิบายโดย นักการศึกษาผู้มีประสบการณ์ แลร์รี เฟอร์ลาซโซ).
Of
course, if anybody has money to throw around, it’s Gates, and that’s just what
he has been doing for years in education reform. He decided to make public
education one of his big “causes” and his foundation gives money to an
astonishing number of organizations. He first focused on small schools, and
spent $2 billion to create a network of them until he
decided it hadn’t worked and he abandoned it. In fact, critics said that small
schools can be successful but the Gates didn’t approach it properly and gave up
too soon.
แน่นอน,
หากใครมีเงินที่จะเที่ยวโยนทิ้ง, มันคือ เกตส์,
และนั่นก็เป็นสิ่งที่เขากำลังทำมาหลายปีในการปฏิรูปการศึกษา. เขาได้ตัดสินใจที่จะทำการศึกษาสาธารณะให้เป็น “สาเหตุ”
ใหญ่หนึ่ง และ มูลนิธิของเขา ก็จะให้เงินแก่องค์กรมากมายจนน่าตกใจ. เขายิงนัดแรกไปที่ โรงเรียนขนาดเล็ก,
และใช้เงิน $2 พันล้าน เพื่อสร้างเครือข่ายโรงเรียนเหล่านี้
จนกระทั่งเขาตัดสินใจว่า มันไม่ทำงาน และเขาก็ละทิ้งมันไป. ที่แท้, นักวิพากษ์กล่าวว่า โรงเรียนเล็กๆ
อาจสำเร็จได้ แต่ เกตส์ ไม่ได้เข้าหามันอย่างเหมาะสม และ เลิกล้มเร็วเกินไป.
No
matter, he then moved on to “transforming” teacher evaluation and has spent
hundreds of millions of dollars in four school districts to pilot evaluation
systems that in part use standardized test scores, a practice just about every
psychometrician you meet will say is a bad idea. In an April 3
op-ed in The Washington Post, Gates seemed to be acknowledging that the obsession
with test scores had gone too far:
ไม่เป็นไร, เขาก็มุ่งต่อไป
เพื่อ “พลิกโฉม” กระบวนการประเมินผลครู และได้ทุ่มเงินหลายแสนดอลลาร์
ในสี่เขตโรงเรียน เพื่อทำระบบการประเมินนำร่อง ที่ในบางส่วน ใช้คะแนนตรวจสอบมาตรฐาน,
อันเป็นวิธีปฏิบัติที่นักมาตรวัดจิตวิทยาเกือบทุกคนที่คุณเจอ จะบอกว่า
มันเป็นความคิดที่แย่. ในคอลัมน์ข่าว op-ed เมื่อวันที่ 3 เมษายน ใน The Washington
Post, เกตส์ ดูเหมือนจะยอมรับว่า ความหมกมุ่นอยู่กับคะแนนสอบ
มันมากเกินไปแล้ว:
This
is one reason there is a backlash against standardized tests — in particular,
using student test scores as the primary basis for making decisions about
firing, promoting and compensating teachers. I’m all for accountability, but I
understand teachers’ concerns and frustrations.
นี่เป็นเหตุผลหนึ่งของการตีตลบกลับต่อต้านการใช้วัดด้วยเกณฑ์มาตรฐาน—โดยเฉพาะ,
การใช้คะแนนสอบของนักเรียน เป็นฐานปฐมในการตัดสินใจว่า จะไล่ออก, จะเลื่อนขั้น และ
ชดเชยให้ครู. ฉันเห็นด้วยอย่างยิ่งกับเรื่องความน่าเชื่อถือ
การมีความรับผิดชอบ, แต่ฉันก็เข้าใจความห่วงใยและความอึดอัดใจของครูด้วย.
Even
in subjects where the assessments have been validated, such as literacy and
math, test scores don’t show a teacher areas in which they need to improve.
แม้แต่ในวิชาสอบผ่านการประเมิน,
เช่น วรรณคดีและคณิตศาสตร์, คะแนนสอบ ก็ไม่ได้แสดงพื้นที่ของครู
ว่าครูควรปรับปรุงอะไรบ้าง.
Teachers
have been saying that for years but Gates thought he knew better.
บรรดาครูได้บอกเช่นนั้นมาหลายปีแล้ว
แต่ เกตส์ คิดว่า เขารู้ดีกว่า.
The
depth and breadth of Gates’ funding in the education world is remarkable.
Education historian and activist Diane Ravitch wrote on her blog in a post
titled “Is There Any Organization That Is Not Funded by Gates”:
ความลึก ความกว้าง
ของการให้ทุนของ เกตส์ ต่อโลกการศึกษานั้นไม่ธรรมดาทีเดียว. นักประวัติศาสตร์และนักกิจกรรมการศึกษา ไดแอน ราวิตช์
เขียนในบล็อกของเธอ หัวเรื่อง “มีองค์กรใดไหมที่ไม่ได้รับทุนจาก เกตส์”:
The
Gates Foundation, for example, underwrites almost every organization in its
quest to control American education. It supports rightwing groups like Jeb
Bush’s Foundation for Educational Excellence and Ben Austin’s Parent
Revolution. In the recent past, it gave money to the reactionary ALEC. It pays
young teachers to oppose unions and to testify against the rights of tenured
teachers. It also pays unions to support its ideas about evaluations, despite
their flaws. It spends hundreds of millions of dollars to support “independent”
think tanks, which are somewhat less independent when they become dependent on
Gates money.
มูลนิธิเกตส์, ยกตัวอย่าง, ลงนามค้ำประกันเกือบทุกองค์กรที่แสวงหาทางควบคุมการศึกษาของชาวอเมริกัน. มันสนับสนุนกลุ่มหัวเอียงขวา เช่น
มูลนิธิเพื่อการศึกษาดีเยี่ยม ของ เจบ บุช
และ การปฏิวัติพ่อแม่ ของ เบน ออสติน.
เมื่อเร็วๆ นี้, มันได้ให้เงินกับกลุ่มปฏิกิริยา ALEC. มันจ่ายเงินให้ ครูหนุ่มสาวต่อต้านสหภาพ
และ ให้แสดงความเห็นต่อต้านครูถาวร. มันยังให้เงินกับสหภาพเพื่อสนับสนุนความคิดเกี่ยวกับการประเมินผลแบบนี้,
ทั้งๆ ที่มีข้อบกพร่อง.
มันจ่ายเงินหลายร้อยล้านดอลลาร์ เพื่อสนับสนุน กลุ่มนักคิด “อิสระ”,
ที่ไม่ค่อยมีอิสระเมื่อพวกเขากลายเป็นต้องพึ่งเงินจาก เกตส์.
The
influence of wealthy entrepreneurs on the national school reform agenda has
been increasingly seen in recent years, with vast sums being spent by people
including Gates, Eli Broad and the Walton family to further their own personal
views of how public education should look. Many education policymakers now seem
captive to them, spending public dollars to further these agendas.
อิทธิพลของนักค้าร่ำรวยในวาระการปฏิรูปโรงเรียนแห่งชาติ
ได้ปรากฏตัวให้เห็นชัดขึ้นเรื่อยๆ ในไม่กี่ปีมานี้, ด้วยก้อนเงินมหึมาจ่ายโดยคน
เช่น เกตส์, บอร์ด อิไล และ ครอบครัววอลตัน
เพื่อขยายอำนาจจากมุมมองส่วนตัวของพวกเขา ไปกำหนดว่า โรงเรียนสาธารณะ (รัฐ)
ควรมีหน้าตาอย่างไร.
ผู้วางนโยบายการศึกษาหลายคน ตอนนี้ ดูเหมือนจะต้องมนตร์สะกดของพวกเขา
ด้วยการทุ่มเงินเพื่อให้บรรลุวาระ (ซ่อนเร้น) ของพวกเขาเอง.
Watch
the video of Gates or read the transcript below:
ชมวีดีโอของเกตส์ หรือ
อ่านบทถอดความที่...
© 2013 The Washington Post
Published on
Friday, May 10, 2013 by Answer Sheet
Blog
JohannIvan
• 2 days ago
Nothing
more than yet another attack on workers' rights. Gates is an evil, vile human
being who uses his wealth to advance 1% policies while cloaking them under the
banner of "charity". May he, and those like him, burn in hell - they
sure as fk won't get the justice they so richly deserve in this life.
Richlittle
> JohannIvan • 2 days ago
Indeed
correct. He and his wifey, and the 'Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation', are
also busily investing in Monsanto and a 'Frankenworld', while destroying the
farming diversity of not only Amerika but countries worldwide. Gee, what a
great 'family'. Everyone should be listening to them!!!
Siouxrose
> Richlittle • 2 days ago
Thank you for mentioning this. It's
not JUST about "the money," although that is a factor. These
individuals want to turn our world into a virtual machine that will do their
bidding. There is a common ideological thread that runs between Gates' support of Monsanto's
laboratory nightmares, and turning children's minds into standardized
machine-like brains. Both models place MAN in dominion over nature; and both
are models that give to a small select group of mostly white wealthy males the
CONTROL over food and tomorrow's Labor Pool. There is no sense of the
sacredness of life... it's all about control & ownership.
These types of corporatists are
creating a modern re-enactment of the days where citizens labored unto pharaoh
and pharaoh decided EVERYTHING. Gates is probably the progeny of that legacy,
if not a returned Atlantean. His know-how around advanced machinery, namely the
computer world, along with his fondness for genetic dismantling (of the sacred
biological building blocks of life) are tied to that era. Edgar Cayce warned
(back in the l940's & l950's) that the Atlanteans were reincarnating in
America and bringing their genetic knowledge along.
This would not be the first time
advanced civilization was totally eradicated due to human meddling in areas (nuclear, genetic)
where they do NOT belong.
The center WILL not hold...
BTW: This empty-hearted soul is also
quite fond of Vaccines. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has MUCH to say on this subject
(as any google search will show).
see
more
Richlittle
> Siouxrose • 2 days ago
No doubt. The rich and famous among
us all seem to have a twisted logic all their own, and worse, the money and
power to bring it to fruition. Yet they can't see far enough ahead to realize
that minds and bodies crippled by arsenic poisoning, among other things, and
starving, don't produce much or buy much of their products. Perhaps they just
want to cull the herd along the way.
The understanding has not yet reached
them that they too must breathe the same air and drink the same poisoned water
as the rest of us, even if they think they are eating better quality food, or
drinking different water, they are wrong, it'll get them too in the the end.
Knowing this, doesn't help us much
now. We have to be willing to fight these people on every level!
Grandma
Moon > JohannIvan • 2 days ago
True. Let the wealthy corporations
their pay taxes so that public education has stability, is democratically
funded and is run in a rational way by those who know education. Education
should not be starved for public funds and not be continually destabilized to
the point of failure so that rich know-nothings can come in with tons of money
and ego to implement entrepreneurial or juvenile ideas. If they really care
about education, they will pay taxes, make sure teachers and schools get what
THEY need to do their jobs, and leave education to those who have made it a
life's work.
Being wealthy does not make one an
expert in everything. We are number one in silly approaches to education.
Arrby
> JohannIvan • 18 hours ago
Indeed, Mr. Gates is a typical
corporatist (neoliberal, fascist). His interference in politics, in regard to
the guest worker program (see link at bottom of post) resulted in a loss of job
opportunities for unemployed American citizens. I loved the section in
"The Trouble With Billionaires," by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks,
about Gates. The way he acquired the windows OS and the lucrative contract with
IBM that resulted in his becoming rich, must inspire those who pooh pooh the
idea of playing nice and following the (written 'and' unwritten) rules. Those
of us who have a different idea about law and order, who believe civilization
should not include inequality, find him unimpressive and disgusting.
And then there's his support for
industrial food and the Monsantos of the world. I copied and pasted an article,
titled "The Ungreen Revolution," that I can't find online. I came
upon the article via a Canadian progressive (if imperfect) website called
Straight Goods (http://sgnews.ca/). They apologize about their isp's failure to
retain data or something that would allow the link to the article to work and
then they offer to try to retrieve it for the reader via another link that
doesn't work. The org (Grain.org) that produced the article is still there, but
a search on it's website failed to produce the article. I just now emailed
someone there to ask about it.
An excerpt (within the asterisks)
from the above mentioned article follows:
********
In a fanfare of publicity, the Bill
& Melinda Gates and the Rockefeller Foundations announced on September 12
that they have teamed up in a new "Alliance for a Green Revolution in
Africa". A day later, probably in an orchestrated move, Jacques Diouf,
Director General of UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), called for
support for a second Green Revolution to feed the world's growing population.
UN boss Kofi Annan also weighed in to support the initiative.
The core of this Gates/Rockefeller initiative is
the breeding of new seeds and getting Africa's small farmers to use them.
Gates will put up US$100 million, and Rockefeller will contribute another US$50
million plus its long experience in this field. The Gates Foundation, which had
been focusing on health care since it was started, has only recently spotted
agriculture as an issue to spend money on...
..Launched at the height of the cold
war to counter the threat of red revolution sweeping the countryside in large
parts of Asia and Latin America, the Green Revolution is often described as an
agricultural development project based on the breeding of new crop varieties
that respond better to fertilizer, agrochemicals and irrigation. Its impact on
farming and food production has provoked bitter controversy: its proponents
claim that it has saved millions of lives by increasing agricultural
productivity, while its critics point to the devastating impact it has had on
small farmers and the environment. Nobody denies that it generated a massive
global market for seed, pesticide and fertilizer corporations...
..Even the Rockefeller Foundation
admits that Africa's experience raises serious questions about the Green
Revolution approach: "Lingering low yields among African farmers for crops
such as maize and rice, where adoption of improved varieties has been
appreciable, call into question the overall value of the improved germplasm to
local farmers."...
But perhaps the starkest omission is
the project's failure to consider the socio-economic consequences of its
techno-fix model. The thinking is: improved varieties give more production,
which yields more income. But, as more than 600 NGOs put it in an open letter
to the Director General of the FAO in 2004: "if we have learned anything
from the failures of the Green Revolution, it is that technological 'advances'
in crop genetics for seeds that respond to external inputs go hand in hand with
increased socio-economic polarization, rural and urban impoverishment, and
greater food insecurity. The tragedy of the Green Revolution lies precisely in
its narrow technological focus that ignored the far more important social and
structural underpinnings of hunger." It is indeed hard to believe that
this reality has not yet sunk into the minds of US "development"
planners like those at the Rockefeller Foundation.
This reality has only been growing
more dramatic. Under pressure from international and bilateral trade
instruments, especially under the World Trade Organization and the impending
Economic Partnership Agreements with the European Union, African governments
are increasingly opening up their markets to let their farmers
"compete" with the heavily subsidised food and other agricultural
produce dumped into their economies by the US and the EU. Earlier, structural
adjustment programmes imposed by the world's financial institutions, such as
the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, forced African governments
to dismantle public agricultural research and extension programmes and drop
whatever protection and incentive mechanisms existed for their small farmers.
To rub salt in the wound, the same African governments are then forced by the
same agencies to devote their most fertile land to the growing of export
commodities for markets in the North, thus pushing small farmers off their land
and food production out of rural economies.
The bitter irony is that many of
these measures that are now destroying
African farming are being supported, if not instigated, by the very
corporations whose charity foundations are now coming to Africa's
"rescue" with technology programmes...
The problem is not that the Green
Revolution has "bypassed" Africa. It is that several decades of
experience, lessons and new insights have bypassed the Green Revolution
sponsors — now backed by corporate foundations — who insist on an outdated
technology model that
benefits corporations, not farmers.
**********
* Gary Kildall created the first OS
and it was superior to the OS, an unauthorized and 'inferior' clone of
Kindall's OS, that Gates eventually bought and developed. (http://bit.ly/UQcUY)
* "How 'Guestworkers' Promote
Outsourcing" by Ron Hira (http://bit.ly/13q3AFI)
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MountainMan23
• 2 days ago
BILL
GATES IS AN IDIOT
.. there .. I feel better now ..
But seriously, the man has NO
teaching experience, not even a teaching degree, and NO business preaching to
others about something he knows absolutely NOTHING about.
He's just trying to sell more
microsoft products. Duh!
He and his sadistic misanthropic
soulmate Michelle Rhee should be run out of town. Off planet even.
Let THEM be the first couple on Mars.
Catherine
Carre > MountainMan23 • 2 days ago
He
didn't even finish college, much less obtain a certificate, to my
understanding.
MountainMan23
> Catherine Carre • 2 days ago
Dropped out of Harvard to pursuse
business career.
But he's the richest man on the
planet, so he must be the wisest and the smartest and the bestest at
everything!
DoodleySquat
> MountainMan23 • 2 days ago
He's
not the richest man on the planet. There are some European bankers who have
trillions.
MountainMan23
> DoodleySquat • 2 days ago
Ok
.. they get one way tickets to Mars too.
tabilosa
> MountainMan23 • 13 hours ago
He
was a vertical model corporatist...savaged all competition...system that
supports these people have a religion that says my god is bigger than yours...we
are all lost and reduced to empire thinking... a sick model
MountainMan23
> tabilosa • 12 hours ago
Even
in his early years he was a scammer
and a schemer. His wikipedia page tells how he and his buddies who were
given access to computer terminals as teens used that access to hack the system
to give themselves more time on the machines. Later when entrusted to program
class scheduling at his prep school he used his access to put himself in the
classes with the most female students. And we all know the stories of his rise
to success. Not a person to be entrusted with the education of the nation's
young people. Not at all.
Kathy
Adkins > MountainMan23 • 2 days ago
This would look promising for them
(Gates and Michelle Rhee), except the opportunity to get to Mars on a one-way
ticket is 10 years in the future:
http://www.tourism-review.com/...
But
maybe Richard Branson will get ahead of the Dutch project in getting there.
It's a one-way travel ticket because people may not be able to adjust back to
Earth's environment (g-force, atmospheric pressure, etc.) after a significant
exposure to the Martian environ. Anyway, I think it's an excellent idea!
MountainMan23
> Kathy Adkins • 2 days ago
Last
count I think there's about 147,000 of them we need to get off-planet in a
hurry so the rest of us can get back to living ordinary human lives.
Kathy
Adkins > MountainMan23 • 2 days ago
Those
are optimistically low numbers. The moon or Mars would make a great penal
colony for them.
Uncle
Bob > MountainMan23 • 2 days ago
The
S.R. Hadden character in the movie "Contact" reminded me of an
elderly Bill Gates
chryso
• 2 days ago
This
has nothing to do with improving education or teacher performance. This is all
about taking away public education and its democratic influence and humanism,
and about killing all unions, not just teachers'. Also, do not focus on what
Gates&Co spend, but what they intend to earn from a restructured system. If
a previous experiment with a network of smaller schools is considered by
Gates&Co to have failed, it's only because it didn't make enough money for
them. All the arguments and criticisms of education uttered by corpo-critters
are pretext, fake, manipulation.
Theodora
Crawford > chryso • 2 days ago
In
short, it's all about money!
Siouxrose
> Theodora Crawford • 2 days ago
If all you see is the money, then
your vision stops short... money is a means to an ends. Examine what ends might
be sought after by the likes of a Bill Gates. Money buys stuff and the guy
already has his OWN island off the coast of Maui. Money is also very good for
buying POWER and for Gates, that is the ticket. He's like a dark prince making
the world into the image and likeness not of the God of Creation or
Procreation, but something more akin to the dead metallic resonance of the
world inside the Matrix (as the film trilogy depicted it).
Gates would probably fund the cloning
of life. And according to Edgar Cayce, the "capitalist" type
Atlanteans known as the children of Belial (totally corrupted by self-interest)
desired a race of beings that were genetically bred to perform challenging
labors, but lacked the INTELLIGENCE to question their "masters."
Like I said, this goes WAY beyond the
money. People who have never had money may dream of all that they might do if
their status altered; but that doesn't mean those with boatloads of the stuff
necessarily want more just to sit around counting their coins.
Alan
• 2 days ago
we
need to video tape congress while they work and then drug test them, also- if
they want others to take a test..
cactuspie
> Alan • 2 days ago
...and,
put a webcam in their offices, make public all communications between them and
lobbyists, evaluations for performance and pay made by their constituents. Or
put that $5 billion into making sure all schools have the proper resources to
teach children. Billy, Billy, Billy, what are you thinking?
PrMaine
• 2 days ago
Teaching
is a tough job and there is already a high attrition rate. People drop out of
the profession after a year or two, even after spending five or more years
preparing for it. To some extent this is because of the long hours, hard work and
pitiful pay but it is likely also, to some extent, due to the frustration of
the job in learning how hopeless it is to expect to help all of the students..
So
Bill Gates wants to put more pressure on teachers? Where will all the teachers
we need come from?
Moriisu
Isha > PrMaine • 2 days ago
Getting
rid of teachers may be the long term goal. History shows that slaves are best
uneducated. What good is all this money if I can't own people?
Siouxrose
> Moriisu Isha • 2 days ago
You
and I are on the same wavelength even if I arrived 17 hours after you. In the
same way that Obama ran up some good Resume material by acting in a Community
Service capacity, I'd say all of Gates' alleged "philanthropy" serves
his agenda. It hides his true motives.
I
used to laugh at some of the people who pushed the idea that the Rockefellers
and Gates of this world WANTED a full-scale reduction in population. Now,
seeing how they push vaccines and push a model that will cripple children's
minds while supporting a gen-tech model of control of the world's seedstuffs,
it is difficult NOT to come to that conclusion. The seed aspect (discussed
brilliantly by Vandana Shiva) renders the plant world's inborn capacity to
replicate itself null and void. In other words, their fruit is sterile, the
seeds are empty of life.
That
means farmers must PAY for seeds in the way that fields are over-farmed to the
point where they become utterly devoid of nutrients. Nature, which is to say
the MOTHER, is an artist... the very prototype of what makes for the arts.
Therefore, she always explores new combinations from the palette of living
beings.
Gates
wants everything to line up and replicate from a specific model.
His
is a dead life model. It exalts machines, and models everything after their
sterile efficiency and clone-like capacities... I know people who believe David
Icke on this idea that a Reptilian race once interbred with "the Daughters
of Man" many centuries ago... and its progency is largely immune to
feelings, empathy, or compassion.
These
are dangerous beings because their minds are highly tuned to science and the
various ways to unlock the mathematical secrets that largely hold the material
world together... but they absolutely lack any form of conscience towards WHAT
they are doing.
So
they become the types who invent machines that can tear deeper into the heart
of the Mother in the form of their off-shore oil digging... which essentially
rapes the oceanic wombs of life. What sentient soul could do THAT after the
B.P. disaster?
They
close schools and thereby close off LIFE options essentially funneling an
entire demographic of inner city children either towards the prison-industrial
pipeline, the military-industrial pipeline, or living in cracks and/or ON
crack. Prostitution comes to mind.
They
take the public's money and design faux theories that "justify" it
all going to their banker buddies (who already "suffer" a massive
embarrassment of riches) or to their pro-war pals who profit from the all too
casual death and dismemberment of citizens in multiple foreign lands under the
endless call TO war.
This
is NOT human. Yet those who lack consciences and work well with numbers and
systems are favored by the current paradigm and thus advance. The question is
whether they will be able to keep a gridlock on the Higher Progress that must
emerge, like music issuing in a great collective symphony echoing from billions
of awakened SOULS, and thereby inhibit the Shift that is in its laboring (to be
born) stages.
Understanding
this profound division and its ancient roots is one reason why I insist that
the WE meme, framing all under one category that allegedly agrees with and
lends its consent to the policies wrought by The Dominators is a false one.
People need to HONOR the fact that they are in dissent and do not resonate with
the Agents of Destruction. It's like breaking an addiction, waking up from a
spell, or de-programming one's self from Official Narratives and the collective
conformist power of established orthodoxies. It is a necessary part of The
Awakening... to Other.
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bardamu
> Siouxrose • 3 hours ago
Yes,
it's chilling that people can fund Monsanto-supported operations and be
credited for "philanthropy."
Siouxrose
> PrMaine • 2 days ago
He'll
have it ALL done by machine... just as robots now do industrial work, and
drones may come to replace many soldiers...
Seatower
• 2 days ago
This
from someone who attended expensive (and exclusionary) private schools K-12 and
then attended a public university (Univ of WA) for a few years before moving on
to the Ivy League. I can just see how elitist private schools (Country Day
School, Academies, etc.) will react to cameras being placed in their
classrooms...NEVER HAPPEN as all the attorneys, corporate execs, doctors, pro
athletes, public personae, etc. whose children attend those schools will bring
legal action so fast heads will spin. Gates needs to leave PUBLIC EDUCATION
ALONE...he probably owns an overseas company oh, say in South Korea that would
manufacture such cameras. The privacy of the POOR is invaded yet the privacy of
the wealthy is protected by impenetrable walls of steel.
Get
another 'hobby", Gates....please! Undermining the foundation of public
education is NOT an admirable undertaking.
Siouxrose
> Seatower • 2 days ago
Add
all this negation of the Bill of Rights' promise of PRIVACY to the existing
Drug War laws--as per the mandatory piss tests--and maybe we'll soon see
cameras in bathrooms with forced stool specimens taken. I mean isn't that the
logical conclusion to all this snooping? If not, it's on the same moral level.
Kayaker
007 • 2 days ago
He
has no common sense. This is a man who spends money on mosquitoes nets to
protect against malaria while doing nothing to combat climate change, which
will require more than just nets. This man may be somewhat socially progressive
but on most all else-forget. As for getting other billionaires to give half
their wealth, its nothing but a tax write-off and a promotional scam. I wish I
could designate where my tax dollars go but I can't, they can.
Siouxrose
> Kayaker 007 • 2 days ago
Ever
hear of the expression, "Crazy like a fox"? Gates gives the
appearance of caring in these actions but everything he does serves HIS agenda.
The man must be MAD on power... I would not be surprised if he was impotent or
had major sexual problems. This externalized need and desire to control much of
the external world is probably inversely proportional to his own sense of
sexual pro-creative power. The Gates have no children, right? If they do, I
still think my point makes sense.... added to the Atlantean implications of his
life to life trajectory given what he does and where he stands... with so much
power at his disposal.
SanctuaryOne
• 2 days ago
Gates
and Micro$haft are a cancer on this planet
Moriisu
Isha • 2 days ago
Seriously,
this is what we spend our money on? This country has some really sick
priorities--and we are letting the rich dictate what they are.
Pope
Pisius • 2 days ago
Be
ware of gazillionaires trying to fix your problems.
Doug
Latimer • 2 days ago
DiscombobulaTED
This
is "an idea worth spreading"?
irevolt
• 2 days ago
Let's
record all CEO's and have them evaluated for psychopathic behavior, then report
the findings to stockholders.
Seatower
• 2 days ago
Rest
assured, Gates' two children will not be caught on any classroom cameras. His
money would be better spent helping PUBLIC school districts by: refurbishing
run-down schools in impoverished districts; hiring more teachers to reduce
classroom size thus providing teachers with more quality time to focus on
student's individual needs and learning styles; funding before and after school
programs for latchkey children whose parents work two and three jobs to make
ends meet; providing schools with funding to keep art/music/industrial arts
classes (which are the first to be cut when budgets are slashed); providing
funds for tutoring of students needing assistance;...just to name a few more
deserving projects to REINFORCE THE FOUNDATIONS OF PUBLIC EDUCATION...not tear
them down brick-by-brick and punish the teachers and their students in the
process.
Gates
has lived in his private protected insular world way too long...he has lost
touch with reality (short of his own reality of MAKING MORE MONEY). (For
someone as wealthy as he is, his attempt to appear like the "common
man" is a total farce...his poorly cut, unkempt hair and rumpled though
tailor-made suits costing thousands are ridiculous and fail to make him a
"man of the people."
Anti
• 2 days ago
the
only thing Gates has from stealing his business idea from others to make his
billions is a HUGE EGO, no talent what so wver, but as always if you have loads
of money there are plenty of shallow no moral types willing to push ANY
agenda..
DoodleySquat
• 2 days ago
Gates,
like most rich people has become a tyrant. The ancients knew what to do with
tyrants.
michiganwoman
• 2 days ago
Seems
we should really be taping all of our bought off politicians who think nothing
of abandoning their dedication to serve the public. Now that is where a problem
truly exists. What do you say? in Michigan, those R attempts at subverting
democracy will be on view and then let the people decide! Who isn’t tired of
trying to attend public meetings held in private places with guards, laws that
overturn citizens petitions, burdensome taxes so that Gov. Snyder can give tax
breaks to his corporate friends. Sick Michigan.
Siouxrose
> michiganwoman • 2 days ago
Your
idea runs parallel with mine: That if teachers are to get report cards, then
the same standards should be applied to:
1.
The MIC... having lost wars, killed civilians and also lost 2 trillion
dollars.. deserves a DECIMATED budget!
2.
Homeland Security--After Boston, paycuts to all!
3.
Insurance companies: Too many surgeries denied, and paycuts to all
4.
Big Banks: Lose $ and come knocking for the public's charity, WE get to keep
YOUR assets.
5.
EPA--Every time it doesn't rope in the big polluters, let some heads roll.
6.
Media pro-war (and pro war on workers economic policies) pundits made to pay a
price for being knowingly wrong on making cases FOR war against sovereign lands
7.
Any elected politician who lies more than once about a campaign promise
inverted upon entering office is OUT. Wouldn't it be cool if the person who ran
against them (or a rival) was put in to their now vacant spot! Now THAT would
be incentive to keep one's word and respect the public's wishes!
8.
Big Pharma's head honchos--Every time a new "miracle" drug is
released and using the public as its guinea pig, its disastrous side-effects
call for its removal... The Insider-Deciders must step down.
ETC.
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Thoughts_Into_Action
• 2 days ago
It sounds like typical corporate
top-down thinking, and it's no surprise that it's failed many times over for
Gates with education. What he had going for him at Microsoft was mostly done
through legal work, guaranteeing profits, rather than great knowledge or skill.
Some of those efforts might be characterized as theft, quite frankly, but Bill
Gates is well loved today. Patents and legal software use restrictions
essentially created a monopoly in a new industry. Microsoft delivered to a
great extent what capitalism itself wanted: the dream of reducing costs by
eliminating workers, which would be done by encoding work and storing
organizational knowledge in databases. Gates made a big splash there, but
that's just capitalism.
Education is more than just a STEM
(science, technology, engineering and math) curricula to generate future
profits for corporations like Microsoft. But that's probably the
"vision" of a Bill Gates. Clearly we're seeing the corporate sector
trying to muscle into public education dollars and one of their avenues of
attack is to attack the competency of teachers themselves. So, it's likely that
Gates is caught up in that kind of thinking with this filming project. The
"meritocracy" program at Microsoft itself is said to be fairly
ruthless and cutthroat, so you'd expect nothing less when the Chairman turns
his eyes to education.
A
lot of programmers are self taught and tend to be good at math and engineering.
I was lousy at programming, but I recall a guy who was good at it hanging
around the computer lab all day. He was single minded, and I once heard him
tick off all of the subjects he didn't like: history, English, biology, etc. -
all of the subjects I loved. Our world is Bill Gates' world. Soon all that you
do that gets recorded electronically will be centrally compiled in a big
datacenter that the U.S. government is building in the Utah desert. This is the
ultimate tyranny of the nerds: fascism, centralized control, efficiency, mass
unemployment and deskilled labor. In Gates' world, only the few self-taught
programmers out there will be worthy of a living wage. The era of assessment by
machines built by the narrow minded on behalf of megalomaniacs has already
begun.
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Siouxrose
> Thoughts_Into_Action • 2 days ago
Excellent
post. If you're open-minded, you might consider where your insights tie in with
my remarks about Gates' Atlantean (past life) roots.
Thoughts_Into_Action
> Siouxrose • a day ago
Thanks,
SR. I'm going to have to defer on the Atlantean part. It's not something I know
about. Bill Gates was the son of lawyer for bankers and grew up wanting to run
a corporation - that's what I know about him. He learned to program when it was
a brand new field by hanging around a school club. Later, he made sharp
business deals backed by legal muscle. That's enough "success" for
most people in life, so I don't think Bill Gates is trying to prove anything,
like some inadequacy. He just thinks like a corporate lawyer or capitalist,
which is not really helpful for education. And he has more money than is
useful. Capitalism loves the efficiency of software. We also saw Hitler's
Germany use IBM punch cards to process its victims. Fascism likes that
efficiency, too. Software is just a tool, but combine it with capitalism and
fascism and it starts to get ugly.
Theodora
Crawford • 2 days ago
Why
not? Privatization of public education is worth billions...look who's in the
race to win some of the prize: Rupert Murdoch, Michelle Rhea, and of course,
the folks who brought you ALEC legislation drafts. Diud you know there's a
terrific tax break for new businesses--such as charter schools. Wake up folks,
the little red school house is heading for oblivion; kids in front of computers
are the future...a nation of zombies awaits us.
Catherine
Carre • 2 days ago −
The
man made money and is good with computer programming--bully for him. But he
simply does not have the education or background to establish standards,
evaluative tools or strategies, curricula or anything else dealing with
schools. What
an
arrogant >bleep<
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