Friday, August 27, 2010

Californians’ deal with the future

Check out Professor Michael O’Hare’s “Letter” to his students, in the Berkeley Blog:

A letter to my students

…The bad news is that you have been the victims of a terrible swindle, denied an inheritance you deserve by contract and by your merits. And you aren’t the only ones; victims of this ripoff include the students who were on your left and on your right in high school but didn’t get into Cal, a whole generation stiffed by mine. This letter is an apology, and more usefully, perhaps a signal to start demanding what’s been taken from you so you can pass it on with interest….

Pictured: Huntington Beach last night

1 comment:

Bob Cosgrove said...

This letter is worth reading. I'm sharing it with my students at Saddleback. It's O'Hare's opinion based on 20 years of teaching, and, perhaps without realizing it, his ideas--for me at least--vibrate beyond UC Berkeley and high schools. California (maybe Californians have) has veered away from what government can, maybe should, do (or continue to do) for its citizens. And what its citizens should do for California and the future of its young people.

And its worth the time to see where O'Hare background--Harvard, MIT and other think tanks. Nice to read of a thoughtful thinker thinking through a piece of writing.

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