Apple CEO lambasts teacher unions

[Matt Johnston]

On 17 Feb 2007, at 14:08, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:

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> On 17 févr. 07, at 23:02, Matt Johnston wrote:
>> Again, it's a simple message. Technology is not going to fix  
>> things while there are crap teachers in the system.
>
> I can agree with that. But please, let the unions out of that. Or  
> become a member and change them from inside. That is what I do,  
> when I can, and it is way more productive than such stances.

I've been a member of a Union and, frankly, I found to be a waste of  
time. Entrenched Union management as unreasonable as the actual  
management.

>> 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)
>
> I've not read him (link ?),

You don't need to. He even has an improbability typewriter so that  
even articles he hasn't written are wrong.

> and I thought Jobs' idea of actually writing something was in  
> itself positive.

I think it encourages debate which might have the desired effect.