Matt Damon rewrites attack on teachers

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Run time: 10:59 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG4gxtTKhe4   Posted on YouTube: August 06, 2011 By YouTube Member: Sub4SubNewsToday Views on YouTube: 148   Posted on DU: August 16, 2011 By DU Member: LWolf Views on DU: 1043

 
Yes, I know we've all watched Damon's interview by now. While the title is about Damon, it's the reporter's editorial that is significant in this version.

This is the best defense of teachers I've heard in the almost 3 decades of my career.

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"...but I’ll tell you what they don’t want . . . they don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that . . . that doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fuckin' years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers . . . Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it,..."

~George Carlin

- It's no accident Larry.....

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4. Carlin. I miss him. nt

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5. I miss him too.

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