GREAT MOMENTS ON 'THE VIEW'
DAILY BACKGROUND - One of the co-hosts of The View, Sherri Sheppherd, said she didn't believe in evolution so co-host Whoopi Goldberg asked her if she believed the world was flat or round. She wasn't able to answer, using the excuse that she was too busy being a good little housewife to think about complicated things like matters that science settled hundreds of years ago:
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Is the world flat?
SHERRI SHEPHERD: Is the world flat? (laughter)
GOLDBERG: Yes.
SHEPHERD: . . . I Don't know.
GOLDBERG: What do you think?
SHEPHERD: I. . . I never thought about it, Whoopi. Is the world flat? I never thought about it.
BARBARA WALTERS: You've never thought about whether the world was round or flat?
SHEPHERD: I tell you what I've thought about. How I'm going to feed my child–
WALTERS: Well you can do both.
SHEPERD: . . . how I'm going to take care of my family. The world, is the world flat has never entered into, like that has not been an important thing to me.
ELIZABETH HASSELBECK: You'll teach your son, Jeffery, right?
SHEPHERD: If my son, Jeffery, asks me 'is the world flat,' I guess I would go…
JOY BEHAR: You know, didn't some person already work this question out? I mean, why are we doing this again? (laughter, applause)
7 Comments:
No child left behind, just centuries of painfully aquired knowledge. Faith-based stupidity wins again.
We're paying billions every year for a 19th Century industrial model teaching system that just doesn't work. It's time to abolish the state system, and let the free market offer the education opportunities business, parents, and scholarship need for the 21st Century.
We can see what a great job "the market" has done with energy, health care ,and national defense .
Yes, because we've all seen the excellent results that ensue when we whore out to the 'free market' enterprises that should by rights be administered by a government that allegedly represents "the People", i.e., US.
Sorry, but I do not want the corporadoes of Mickey D's, Nike, Wal-mart, et. al. in charge of my children's education--and you shouldn't either.
"Sorry, but I do not want the corporadoes of Mickey D's, Nike, Wal-mart, et. al. in charge of my children's education--and you shouldn't either."
Actually, since the corporates effectively own the government they are already in charge of your kid's education. That's why, for instance, all of the bad stuff they've done has been completely eliminated from the history books.
There are ways of ensuring that every child gets an education without also ensuring that every child is also subjected to government/corporate propaganda. As long as the government has exclusive control over the schools and the curriculum you can rest assured that people will grow up learning to do whatever the government tells them to do. It's inescapable.
They're effectively in charge of the government, because we've allowed the functions of government to be privatised out to them--thus your line of reasoning comes full circle.
I'm not sure how you think your suggestion can be implemented without sending every child to private school, so what's your point here?
Right on, 2;46.
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