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“You’re Headed For A One Term Presidency”

 

 

 

The late Steve Jobs was a Democrat, but apparently he minced no words with the President when he met him last year according to a new biography:

Jobs, who was known for his prickly, stubborn personality, almost missed meeting President Obama in the fall of 2010 because he insisted that the president personally ask him for a meeting. Though his wife told him that Obama “was really psyched to meet with you,” Jobs insisted on the personal invitation, and the standoff lasted for five days. When he finally relented and they met at the Westin San Francisco Airport, Jobs was characteristically blunt. He seemed to have transformed from a liberal into a conservative.

“You’re headed for a one-term presidency,” he told Obama at the start of their meeting, insisting that the administration needed to be more business-friendly. As an example, Jobs described the ease with which companies can build factories in China compared to the United States, where “regulations and unnecessary costs” make it difficult for them.

Jobs also criticized America’s education system, saying it was “crippled by union work rules,” noted Isaacson. “Until the teachers’ unions were broken, there was almost no hope for education reform.” Jobs proposed allowing principals to hire and fire teachers based on merit, that schools stay open until 6 p.m. and that they be open 11 months a year.

Coming from a Obama supporter like Jobs this is truly damning.  Jobs was a good bit of a jerk at the best of times, but he knew how to make a huge pile of money in his industry and he could tell that what Obama has thus far done in regard to the economy is nothing short of a disaster.

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c matt
c matt
Friday, October 21, AD 2011 2:04pm

I don’t know that opening schools for longer periods is teh solution – it’s not that enough time isn’t spent in school, it’s that the quality of education sucks. Schools are just too political, too much time spent on foolish subjects, many textbooks are simplypoorly written, etc. That has nothing to do with the amount of time spent.

Mrs. Zummo
Mrs. Zummo
Friday, October 21, AD 2011 4:20pm

I think longer school hours are a good idea in certain communities. They have worked well in places where kids don’t have any supervision after school like poorer inner cities. Kids can get into a lot of trouble between 3 and 6. I don’t see a one size fits all answer to our education problems. I agree whole heartedly about empowering principals.

RR
RR
Friday, October 21, AD 2011 4:30pm

If the problem is a diminishing ability to produce a globally competitive labor force, longer school days/years is part of the solution.

As for quality, putting aside the family variable which is a much larger social problem, the biggest factor is teachers. Schools need to attract highly qualified and highly motivated teachers. Jobs is right again here that the ability to fire bad teachers is important. I would also like to see more variability in classroom sizes. At risk students should be in small classrooms. Self-motivated students should have no trouble learning in a lecture hall. This, it seems to me, would be a better way to allocate resources.

Elizabeth McClintic
Elizabeth McClintic
Monday, October 24, AD 2011 4:02pm

I heard this weekend that there is an app for iPhones that make Steve Jobs a saint. It’s called iBA fi.

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