Gosh Matt Damon is an idiot. I mean not in the lovable plodding imbecile sense. But in the more dangerous sense, the sense of the person who is cleverly stupid, who can talk fast and string together multi-syllabic phrases of pure nonsense and be utterly, utterly confident that he is speaking the judgements of Solomon. And convince others of it too.
Calm dispassionate logic has no place in the world of Mr. Damon who seems to be visibly upset that anyone would actually question him, much less disagree with him. Note to Mr. Damon: Public school teachers are well compensated. I’d love to have an easy job with three months vacation and an average salary of 50k a year plus generous benefits. Also teachers respond to incentives just like everyone else. Teachers no more love being teachers than lawyers lawyers, doctors doctors, engineers engineers, and all of them respond to incentives.
To be quite frank, and this is just me talking, the problem with schools isn’t insufficient funding or even bad teachers. The problem is a shitty, watered down curriculum that doesn’t really teach anything and shitty students whose parents have found incentives to outsource raising their children to television and the state. But leftists like Mr. Damon don’t want to talk about that because it would involve deconstructing the massive tower of postmodern leftist cultural garbage that has poisoned the public discourse for the past fifty years.
If we must educate our children, let us teach them how to recognize virtue and how to be disciplined enough to follow it’s path. Give each the tools to find his or her own way, not crank out class after class of young adults, groping about for their way in life.
And as for the teachers, if they be such a sacred and lofty order of men and women, if they work their trade for the love of teaching, then why isn’t that enough? Then let them be paid in the warm feelings they get from teaching Little Billy to read and trouble not the nation’s public places with their shrill cries to suckle harder still and the common teet.
Though, perhaps we should thank Mr. Damon for providing us with “a teachable moment” (which, incidentally, is a phrase so insipid, stupid, and nauseatingly wishy-washy that it could have only been invented by Barack Obama) to demonstrate just why no one should give any credence to his opinions and pronouncements.
And if you disagree with me I’ll get defensive and insult your cameraman.
