Apple CEO lambasts teacher unions

[Matt Johnston]

On 17 Feb 2007, at 13:41, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:

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> On 17 févr. 07, at 22:21, Matt Johnston wrote:
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>> That's wacked. He made two statements.
>>
>> 1. Technology is not going to improve schooling, Good teachers will
>> 2. Unionisation is protecting bad teachers at the expense of good.
>>
>> I agree 100% with those statements.
>
> That is wishful thinking. He did not make such statements. Read the  
> article again. What he is quoted as saying shows little to no  
> understanding of what schools are supposed to achieve, of what  
> public service is and of what unions are. Maybe he is smarter than  
> what the article says as a citizen, I hope so.

Again, it's a simple message. Technology is not going to fix things  
while there are crap teachers in the system.

How you want to interpret it is similar to the arguments arising from  
Jobs on Music which has seen a multitude of different people with  
widely different opinions on what was meant. It seemed simple to me  
but then I'm uncomplicated.

In the Jobs on Music debacle, the only wrong opinion is Rob Enderle  
(and only because the laws of the universe conspire to make it so)

M