05-22-2016, 11:10 AM
Public schools are among the most efficiently-run of all public institutions. Teaching is ill suited to micro-management , something that usually gets bad results. Bureaucracies would cost huge amounts of money, and in rural areas that just would not be tolerated.
I've been a substitute school teacher, and you would be surprised at what I can learn about education as a process. So long as I stick to the lesson plan I am OK. I'm the authoritative type, someone who knows what he wants to achieve on any given day and usually achieves it. I get on topic and stay on topic, but I can adjust. Students do what they are told to do, and if they struggle I help them with their struggles. I decide what they are going to get away with and what they are not going to get away with.
My idea of a good day is that I have no disciplinary referrals, that kids actually learn something, and that the day that I have is simply normal.
... Back to the issue of bureaucracy: small businesses do not have it. America became the economic success that it is because of small business. Governments seem to like big business because big business has payrolls and real estate to tax. Some parts of Big Government love Big Business because it pays into campaigns and into lobbying groups.
I've been a substitute school teacher, and you would be surprised at what I can learn about education as a process. So long as I stick to the lesson plan I am OK. I'm the authoritative type, someone who knows what he wants to achieve on any given day and usually achieves it. I get on topic and stay on topic, but I can adjust. Students do what they are told to do, and if they struggle I help them with their struggles. I decide what they are going to get away with and what they are not going to get away with.
My idea of a good day is that I have no disciplinary referrals, that kids actually learn something, and that the day that I have is simply normal.
... Back to the issue of bureaucracy: small businesses do not have it. America became the economic success that it is because of small business. Governments seem to like big business because big business has payrolls and real estate to tax. Some parts of Big Government love Big Business because it pays into campaigns and into lobbying groups.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.