Retired educators have as much at stake in
the success of America's great public education
system as we did when we served in the classroom.
We've never wanted any child left behind. And
it's important that the wisdom of our experience
and our advocacy for those with no voice should
be shared across our land.
In our mechanized society where thoughts as
well as automobiles may be assembled in an
automated factory, it is also, by some narrow
logic, expedient to reduce children to those
yes-no codes most easily processed by such a
system . . . . When life becomes one giant data-
processing system, the winners are those with
the greatest aptitude for being data.
Judith Groch
Education is the biggest business in America.
It has the largest number of owners, the most
extensive and costly plant, and utilizes the most
valuable raw material. It has the greatest number
of operators. It employs our greatest investment
in money and time, with the exception of national
defense. Its product has the greatest influence on
both America and the world.
R.S. Sligh, Jr.
