02-17-2007, 06:40 PM
Even more surprising is Dell's sticking up for the unions.
Of course, neither of them said that there's plenty of blame to go around on all sides of the fence for the current sorry state in U.S. education. I'd say district administrators and state and federal governments bear even more responsibility than teachers and the NEA. Those who control the purse strings are the ones driving this bus.
Jobs made a crack about how his comments about teachers probably lost Apple some business in Texas, but it's not like teachers and the NEA make the computer purchasing decisions. Maybe the bigwigs in the district offices liked what he had to say and would be inclined to buy more Macs now.
Jobs may have been historically tarred as a touchy-feely liberal, but he's mostly a classic SiliValley libertarian as far as I can tell. If Ayn Rand were still around, she'd have a wealth of material from Jobs to draw on for The Fountainhead II.
Of course, neither of them said that there's plenty of blame to go around on all sides of the fence for the current sorry state in U.S. education. I'd say district administrators and state and federal governments bear even more responsibility than teachers and the NEA. Those who control the purse strings are the ones driving this bus.
Jobs made a crack about how his comments about teachers probably lost Apple some business in Texas, but it's not like teachers and the NEA make the computer purchasing decisions. Maybe the bigwigs in the district offices liked what he had to say and would be inclined to buy more Macs now.
Jobs may have been historically tarred as a touchy-feely liberal, but he's mostly a classic SiliValley libertarian as far as I can tell. If Ayn Rand were still around, she'd have a wealth of material from Jobs to draw on for The Fountainhead II.