re: #114 Teddy’s Person

From Wikipedia: Yglesias went to high school at the Dalton School in New York City, and later attended Harvard University, where he studied philosophy.

He most likely thinks that public school kids should be trained for warehouse jobs at Amazon or flipping burgers. Don’t muddle their minds. They need to read and do math just enough to provide services for Matt and his ilk.

Any one of Jonathan Kozol’s books will bear that out. I have never forgotten one section of “Ordinary Resurrections” where he talks about how businesses come into the poor schools (mostly South Bronx) to “recruit” kids for low-level job futures. Not just seniors in high school—they try to put disadvantaged kids on a path to mediocrity early on—like, how dare a poor child dream of growing up to be a doctor or lawyer.

I remember reading that book while sitting in a coffee shop and crying my eyes out. People came over to see if I was OK, and it was difficult to explain that I was moved to tears by a non-fiction book about education.