What's All This Talk About Fish And Education?
Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime”—Author unknown
Even in today’s world, those are very wise words.
I am someone who happens to believe in freedom of choice and personal accountability. Due to these beliefs, I am often singled out as someone who lacks compassion. The finger is often pointed by those on the left toward people who share my beliefs. It is said that we do not care about others and we only want a society to exist in which we can thrive and leave others behind. We want competition, free markets, less government, less taxes, individual responsibility, and individual choice. Basically, we want a return to what made this country great, before we were forced into a new deal or a great society. Because of this, we are said to lack compassion.
I have several questions for my liberal counterparts. What about teaching self-sufficiency lacks compassion? What about hating the idea of a nanny state lacks compassion? What about teaching an honest problem solving approach, as opposed to simply throwing other peoples’ money at a problem, lacks compassion?
Take for example our education system. The schools have been shanghaied by unions that force school systems into contracts that make it impossible to reward the best teachers and next to impossible to fire the bad ones. I am not a parent, but I hope to be one day. And honestly, I do not want the metric for termination of a teacher to be based upon whether or not he or she sexually assaulted a student. Of course, if you live in
I want to be able to choose which school my child attends, and more importantly, if I choose a public school (since my property taxes already have paid for this service), I want to know that organization is competing for my business. And like it or not, education is a business. A business in which private and parochial schools succeed at the cost of, according to some sources, a third to one half less per student than the public counterparts. Private schools do this because they have to for survival. Public school systems complain of lack of funding. Of course, it is impossible to trim the fat at these public institutions, once again, due to unions.
Problems must be solved at the root. The root of most problems in these
It is time we all face the facts. It is in Liberals’ best interest that the education system stays broken. Is this compassionate? Hardly…
I want everyone to get the best education through schools competing for your business and accountability of the education system. I think wanting everyone to succeed and promoting a system that equips them with the right tools to do so is a good definition of compassion.
What do you think?
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