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THE GINGHAM DRESS



A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston, and walked timidly without an appointment in to the Harvard University President's outer office.



The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods, country hicks had no business at Harvard and probably didn't even deserve to be in Cambridge  



'We'd like to see the president,' the man said softly. 'He'll be busy all day,' the secretary snapped. 'We'll wait,' the lady replied.



For hours the secretary ignored them, hoping that the couple would finally become discouraged and go a way. They didn't, and the secretary grew frustrated and finally decided to disturb the president, even though it was a chore she always regretted.



'Maybe if you see them for a few minutes, they'll leave,' she said to him!



He sighed in exasperation and nodded. Someone of his importance obviously didn't have the time to spend with them, and he detested gingham dresses and homespun suits cluttering up his outer office.



The president, stern faced and with dignity, strutted toward the couple.

The lady told him, 'We had a son who attended Harvard for one year.



He loved Harvard. He was happy here. But about a year ago, he was accidentally killed. My husband and I would like to erect a memorial to him, somewhere on campus.'



The president wasn't  touched. He was shocked. 'Madam,' he said, gruffly, 'we can't put up a statue for every person who attended Harvard and died. If we did, this place would look like a cemetery.'



'Oh, no,' the lady explained quickly. 'We don't want to erect a statue. We thought we would like to give a building to Harvard.'



The president rolled his eyes. He glanced at the gingham dress and homespun suit, then exclaimed, 'A building! Do you have any earthly idea how much a building costs? We have over seven and a half million dollars in the physical buildings here at Harvard.'



For a moment the lady was silent. The president was pleased. Maybe he could get rid of them now.



The lady turned to her husband and said quietly, 'Is that all it costs to start a university? Why don't we just start our own?'



Her husband nodded. The president's face wilted in confusion and bewilderment. Mr and Mrs. Leland Stanford got up and walked away, traveling to Palo Alto , California where they established the university that bears their name, Stanford University, a memorial to a son that Harvard no longer cared about.



You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who they think can do nothing for them.



...A TRUE STORY By Malcolm Forbes



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To educate or not to educate? To be educated or not to be educated?
ah....that is the question.
The word "educate" in Etymology comes from

From Latin ēducātiō (“‘a breeding, bringing up, rearing’”) < ēducāre (“‘to educate’”) < ēducēre( meaning "to lead out) ; see educate.

THE MEANING OF EDUCATION

Recently, a university professor wrote a letter to the editor of the local newspaper. He commented that people shouldn't put too much weight on the recently released trends in SRA scores of the state's high school students. The professor went on to describe some of the unanswered questions about the nature and value of assessment. He mentioned that one of the problems with assessment was the ongoing disagreement on the very purpose of education....more 

This is a great article on 'what' is education, what is the value and who determines what it is and what it is for?

“The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.” ~Eric Hoffer

 

 

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11/4/09

Obama: Shutter failing schools and bring down the teacher 'firewall' Reporting from Madison, Wis. - Declaring that there should be "no excuse for mediocrity" in public schools, President Obama this afternoon pledged to push for recruitment of better teachers, better pay for those who succeed and dismissal of those who let their students down. When principals are trying to determine which teachers are doing well, he said, they should be able to consider student performance as part of the evaluation.

And when schools are failing, "they should be shut down," Obama said. "But when innovative public schools are succeeding, they shouldn't be stifled, they should be supported."

The president's tough words -- fighting words, for some union officials -- came as Obama spoke to students and teachers at a charter middle school here.

9/18/09

75 Percent of Oklahoma High School Students Can't Name the First President of the U.S. Only one in four Oklahoma public high school students can name the first President of the United States, according to a survey released today

What it took to get an 8th grade education in 1895?

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Homeschoolers Ordered into Public Classrooms ( North Carolina ) A North Carolina judge has ordered three children to attend public schools this fall because the homeschooling their mother has provided over the last four years needs to be "challenged." The children, however, have tested above their grade levels – by as much as two years. The decision is raising eyebrows among homeschooling families, and one friend of the mother has launched a website to publicize the issue. The ruling was made by Judge Ned Mangum of Wake County, who was handling a divorce proceeding for Thomas and Venessa Mills.

Pigs fly. Hell freezes over. ACLU sues Muslims over publicly-funded madrassa Mirabile dictu! The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the government-subsidized Muslim charter school in Minnesota.You’ll recall that Katharine Kersten did terrific investigative reporting of the CAIR-supported public school, called “TIZA” (Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy). In a rare stand against their left-wing fellow travelers, the ACLU filed a lawsuit challenging the academy’s use of taxpayer dollars to promote Islam:

1. South Dakota: Homeschoolers Get Blamed, Again

When a newspaper suggested that homeschoolers cause public schools to miss out on funding, Home School Legal Defense Association couldn’t let this false accusation go unchallenged. Read more >>

2. Homeschooler Among Top Contestants on TV Show

A remarkable talent and testimony for how God can use homeschoolers to make a difference in the culture, singer Scott MacIntyre has the rare opportunity to shine before a national audience. He will compete tonight as one of the top contestants on American Idol. Read more >>

3. Minnesota: Tight Budgets Translate into Better Laws

Homeschoolers worked with legislators to trim Minnesota’s fiscal burden by reducing bureaucracy for home educators. Read more >>

4. Michigan: School Threatens to List Homeschooler as High School Dropout

HSLDA helped a high school student avoid being labeled a dropout simply because his parents decided to homeschool him. Read more >>

5. Texas: Group Told to Follow Day Care Regulations

HSLDA helped a homeschool group challenge a social worker’s misguided claim that it needed to comply with state day care laws. Read more >>

6. Discrimination Cut from Byrd Scholarship

As college financial aid offices look to help students afford tuition costs, some homeschoolers are finding out about another funding source—the Byrd Scholarship—for the first time. Read more >>

7. Colorado: New Satellite School Memorandum Available for Members

A new HSLDA members-only memorandum explains the law that allows parents to enroll their children in a Colorado "independent school" but teach them at home—without government interference. Read more >>

8. Florida: School District Creates False Evaluation Deadline

In a dispute over an annual homeschool evaluation, HSLDA helped a family prove that they had complied with the law and that county officials were wrong. Read more >>

9. Nebraska: Governor to Homeschoolers: ‘I’m proud of you!’

The Nebraska governor praised homeschoolers for their efforts in helping defeat a bill that would have severely restricted the freedom to teach at home. Read more >>


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Protesters: IDF used .22-caliber ammo at West Bank fence
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-Blue lights installed in Tokyo train stations to stop suicides
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