That’s eleven words.

What nobody here has remarked upon, in the course of mocking the dean (*), is that a newspaper actually published this drivel. If this editorial says something about the intelligence of this Dean, or lack thereof, what does it say about the editor that chose to include this column in the paper? Is the entire state of Oregon so retarded that the Oregonian didn’t get even one coherent submission for the space? (Of course, if that is the case, that also traces back to the dean of the graduate school of education, doesn’t it?)

(*)Don’t get me wrong; the dean is mockworthy.

I wonder what he means by “cultural competency.” Does he mean that all children now grow up in an MTV vacuum, and have no idea whether they’re male, female, protestants, catholics, jews or buddhists. or whether their native tongue is American English, Urdu, Pashtun or Lakota?

I wonder what he means by a 19th-century education, which by all accounts was pretty good. My grandfather had a 19th-century educaztion that extended only to about fourth grade — but he could calculate the board feet of lumber in a wagon or on a truck quickly and with only a few key measurements. He also wrote intelligible, if plain and inelegant, sentances. I don’t think this fool could calculate anything. And, we have ample evidence of his sentences.

And I wonder how much money this useless fool is paid to oversee the miseducation of potential teachers attending Lewis and Clark.

Oh, the article summary: “We need much more money in order to produce much less qualified citizens.”

This leads to the logical conclusion: “Schools should be disbanded.” (4 words) After all, schools were originally conceived as facilities to disseminate knowledge, what with the books, the desks, the boards, and so on. But self-esteem enhancement can happen anywhere. So why do we need to pay for these expensive facilities?