Ten Top Reasons We
Are Willing To Spend More Money on War Than On Education
9. You
can’t expect us to fight modern wars with bows and arrows, for God’s sake! But 1940’s textbooks, and pencils and paper
were good enough for me, so they’re good enough for today’s kids, too.
8. Do
you even know how many bake sales it would take to build a
battleship? Who’s got time to make that
many cupcakes?!?
7. Just try to get a really great parade
together with a lot of frumpy teachers marching along to Sesame Street songs!
6. & 5.
When Moses came down off the mountain with the 10 Commandments and saw
that the people weren’t listening, he broke the tablets and killed 3000 people
who wanted to go home. This shows us two
things: first, anything that can’t be taught with a few bullet points on a
stone tablet isn’t worth the effort to teach it; and second, if other people don’t
want to learn what we want to teach them, then the only recourse is to kill as
many of them as possible. For some
reason, schools refuse to do that.
4. Besides,
Jesus was the greatest teacher; and He lived outdoors, relied on other people
to feed Him, wore robes and sandals, never got paid a dime for His teaching,
and could make 5000 meals from a few loaves and fishes without so much as a
microwave; today's teachers who expect to earn a good living from teaching are
just greedy.
3. A thousand photos of hundreds of kids sitting
and learning are boring; but one video of a kick-ass fighter jet launching a really
big missile and blowing something up is exciting.
2. We’re already spending enough money on large,
intimidating buildings with bars on the windows, metal detectors, “safe zone”
perimeters and armed security. They’re
called prisons. At least we still let
teachers and students go home at night!
And the number one reason we are willing to
spend more money on war than on education:
1. After centuries of underfunding education
and overfunding war, a whole lot of people are simply too ignorant to know the
difference.
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