But America no longer seeks to educate thinking, feeling, human beings.
The danger, of course, in the rush to privatize education is not only that educating students holistically is being sacrificed on the altar of management efficiency, but also that the business world's love of cheap labor is inducing decisions that devalue the importance of educating thinking citizens.
This will help to create a better educated, deeper thinking, problem-solving, forward-looking, and powerful workforce for the twenty-first century.
In truth, amateur and professional leagues want their players pliant and obedient, not particularly well educated and free thinking.
Can one imagine that woman saying of someone, "She's an African-American, you know, but she's an educated African-American"? "Thinking," or an equivalent term like "independent," is usually a code word.
Because if it is, thinking, educated people should consider leaving.
I'm trying to create a new aristocracy getting these kids educated out of thinking the worse they are, the better they are.
"It's more critical than ever to have a well-skilled, educated, critical-thinking workforce," O'Connell said.
So much so that it's hard to remember a time when educated, free-thinking people reserved at least a tiny, secret corner where belief in Satan -- or pure evil -- resided.
"I think they started doing a little bit more research and educating themselves and thinking: 'You know what, these don't look like your standard house cat.'" San Antonio Animal Care Services spokeswoman Lisa Norwood told local TV station KENS 5 on Monday.
