Bill Gates. I thought he had moved on to cow farts.
Speaking to the National Conference of State Legislatures’ annual legislative summit, the world’s richest man lectured that there should be data that decided who was the best teacher. By doing that, said the world’s richest man, you wouldn’t need t worry about class size.
Gates’ lecture was followed by Kentucky state Rep. Kent Stevens, a retired principal who spent nearly 28 years in education.
Stevens said after Gates’ speech that public school teachers do a good job with the vast mission they’ve been given.
“We have to provide an appropriate education to anybody that walks through the door,” said Stevens, a Democrat from Lawrenceburg, Ky. “That’s a wide variety.”
I thought Gates had quit school stuff and was working on stopping cows from farting.
It’s remarkable that someone who knows so little about education can become an “expert” simply by virtue of having a lot of money. There’s an awful lot of that about, unfortunately.
But I notice that you don’t seem to be concerned that someone who knows so little about cow farts is now an expert on that, simply by virtue of being rich.
Or should I infer that being rich does make one an expert on cow farts?
Or do I just like writing “Bill Gates” and “cow farts” in the same sentence?
I know. I’m so childish.
I suppose the same people who accepts Gates as an educational expert can be persuaded on his cow fart positions. I think Microsoft just went down 19%, so perhaps he’ll be producing fewer of them. I’ll refrain from belt-tightening jokes at this time.