Apple CEO Lambasts Teacher Unions

Posted February 18, 2007, 1:15 p.m.

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, Inc., is a smart man. Single-handedly, he turned Apple from a ‘beleaguered’ corporation on the brink of bankruptcy into one of the most impressive turnaround stories in the history of business. Like many others in the computer industry (including Bill Gates), Jobs has some choice words for our failing education systems. He knows what most intelligent observers of public education know: the unionization of teachers has created an environment where the worst teachers keep teaching and the best ones either avoid entering the profession or burn out and leave it early.

Apple CEO Lambasts Teacher Unions (AP via Houston Chronicle [no longer available]).

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

But if we successfully reduce gun murders without reducing the overall murder rate, that’s not really success. The murder victim doesn’t care whether he was killed with a gun, knife, hammer, car, poison, anvil, or blow-dart. Neither should we.

He who says ‘I know him’ but disobeys his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

Okay, so I lost The Tonight Show, but I’ll show them . . . I’ll stop shaving.

Earnestness is just stupidity sent to college.

It was the countercultural force of Christian sexuality that overturned the pagan world’s dehumanizing practices.

But if we do revive and pursue the pagan ideal of a simple and rational self-completion we shall end where Paganism ended. I do not mean that we shall end in destruction. I mean that we shall end in Christianity.

In the prevailing culture, priority is given to the outward, the immediate, the visible, the quick, the superficial, and the provisional. What is real gives way to appearances.

Pizza is proof that God exists.

I believe that I’ve made good judgments in the past, and I think I’ve made good judgments in the future.

Self-fertilization is a risky strategy, which is why sex is so popular among large and complex organisms.

God wishes to charge you with a mission. You will be contradicted, but do not fear; you will have the grace to do what is necessary.

The only problem with demolishing examples of Brutalist architecture is that there are other examples still standing.

The French codes are often difficult of comprehension, but they can be read by every one; nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents.

It is both irrational and counterproductive to fight evil by disarming good.

Altruists, with thin, weak voices, denounce Christ as an egoist. Egoists (with even thinner and weaker voices) denounce Him as an altruist.

[A conservative is] a statesman enamored of existing evils, as opposed to a liberal, who wants to replace them with others.

Because it prescribes government of the people, liberal democracy can be only as strong as the people who live under it.

I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.

Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel—only a means to an end.

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