Re: Subject: college dropout condemns US education

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

We could do worse than Bill Gates on this issue - unlike the Walton
family (nos. 4-8 on the Forbes 400), he's not pushing a
voucher/privatization agenda. His stuff on vaccination isn't bad
either. And he shut up all those New Economy cheerleaders in the late
1990s, who thought all Africa needed was broadband, by pointing out
that they needed electricity and clean water first. In biz, he's a
scummy monopolist, but as a philanthropist, he's not so bad.

Doug