{"id":2981,"date":"2011-02-18T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2024-02-02T10:11:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T15:11:07","slug":"robert-reich-the-attack-on-american-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/2011\/02\/18\/robert-reich-the-attack-on-american-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Reich: The Attack on American Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was reminded of this post<\/a> from a few weeks back when thinking about the situation in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It isn’t just unions Republicans hate. Or common folks having the audacity to believe they have rights – or to even speak up to defend those rights. Nah, they just sic the National Guard on folks like that and act like the dictators we support around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, it’s learning they hate. People who work to learn things, particularly things they don’t even have to use for a job, scare them. Learning for learning’s sake confuses them. Knowing things that make you a better, more well-rounded person does not conform to the Republican belief of take orders, obey them, and shut up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knowledge is power and conservatives only can compute that money equals power. Anything outside that equation confuses them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So learn something people. Do it just because you are curious. If you better yourself financially, great! But do it for your SELF, not your wallet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was actually argued with by a Facebook “friend” for posting the following: “Try to learn something new every day, because the more you know, the smarter you’ll grow.” That was Miss Rosa on the PBS kid’s programming block. I mean, seriously, who hates that kind of mentality? Why the fear and loathing of knowing more tomorrow than you do today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was reminded of this post from a few weeks back when thinking about the situation in Wisconsin. It isn’t just unions Republicans hate. Or common folks having the audacity to believe they have rights – or to even speak up to defend those rights. Nah, they just sic the National Guard on folks like that and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2982,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions\/2982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}