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- Subject: Re: Clinton's school choice
- In-Reply-To: Message of 01/13/93 at 17:03:00 from JOHNWONG@MACC.WISC.EDU
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- Re: Presidential leadership and by example, at that (John Wong)
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- Here is a person who, according to stories, has prepared himself for this
- particular position all his life. This circumstance alone causes me to
- suspect his motives. Do we really know what we elected him for? Transfor-
- mational leadership seems a pretty vain hope, given the "track record,"
- unless you conclude that RR was such a leader. Just maybe, Bill Clinton
- believes that the end of education is economic competitiveness (his public
- statements about education would seem to indicate so). In that case his
- decision to send his daughter to a school that serves like-minded (or
- like-situated) folk would be quite consistent with his public statements about
- the aims of education. Even if he HAD sent Chelsea to the DC Wilderness,
- however, we'd still be stuck with his faulty notion of the aims of education.
- But--it's hard to winnow substance from rhetoric in the pronouncements of duly
- appointed leaders.
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