{"id":843,"date":"2008-10-06T21:57:08","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T01:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=843"},"modified":"2008-10-06T21:57:08","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T01:57:08","slug":"on-mr-ayers-and-mr-obamaor-the-curious-incedent-of-the-dog-barking-in-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=843","title":{"rendered":"On Mr Ayers and Mr Obama<br \/>Or the Curious Incedent of the Dog Barking in the Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missing the point, is the problem on both the right and the defenses from the left.<\/p>\n<p>The point isn&#8217;t Mr Ayers regrettable (and alas not-regretted) past. It isn&#8217;t how close in bed where Mr Obama and Mr Ayers and what did who know when. That is a political wart which will not change the election. But &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The point is they both miss the point on education. Badly.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Obama in a commencement address earlier this year spoke to college grads of not giving themselves to money and career but &#8220;doing something for change&#8221;. Mr Ayers also sees education as a platform to educate &#8220;children for freedom and against oppression&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, that ain&#8217;t the problem. The problem is the scarcity of good engineers and scientists coming out of our schools. It isn&#8217;t &#8220;more poetry and freedom&#8221; that needs to be taught, it&#8217;s path integrals and Riemann surfaces. It&#8217;s tensors and logic and PLL amplifiers. Mr Ayers (and Mr Obama) are brought up looking in the wrong direction for the &#8220;problem&#8221; and &#8230; that is the problem with their association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missing the point, is the problem on both the right and the defenses from the left. The point isn&#8217;t Mr Ayers regrettable (and alas not-regretted) past. It isn&#8217;t how close in bed where Mr Obama and Mr Ayers and what did who know when. That is a political wart which will not change the election. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}