So many people hate Microsoft and have demonized Bill Gates. Some extremely upset critics have even thrown a pie in his face. If you are a technology company, the name Microsoft should scare you as there is no niche in technology this company won’t purse, dominate and eventually rule — if they have their way of course.
But the side of Bill gates that many people don’t see is the one that donates billions to charities around the world. It seems the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation may even be responsible for changing the
The foundation has education programs in place in over 42 states and has donated 2.3 billion dollars into educating future generations of students.
Gates is a product of intensive hands-on instruction courtesy of
Quoting Gates directly:
"Our high schools were designed fifty years ago to meet the needs of another age. Until we design them to meet the needs of the 21st century, we will keep limiting – even ruining – the lives of millions of Americans every year."
Click here for more on how Gates is helping the
Mark A
August 9, 2006 at 1:37 pmWhat Bill can help, local government can hurt… check this out:
Gates Scholars to lose their Alma Mater?
What is going on in Richmond and this world when bureaucrats are trying to ruin the most successful school the area has ever seen?
details at http://gatesscholarsmaylosealmamater
mamadou
June 16, 2007 at 5:35 pmhello my name mamadou I am in Africa in the country of the senegal I request information creé an organization against peauvreté from the senegal and I want one me assistance is as helped the peauvre with the sengal I want as the rich person us assistance is helped the peauvre with the senegal like the Bill Gates
Anonymous
September 25, 2007 at 4:09 pmRe Bill Gates trying to improve our education system:
IT NEEDS IT BADLY. My suggestions are simple. Newer is not always better – there are things that have to change.
l. Get the parents ‘out of the classrooms’. Teachers are responsible for discipline, teaching and educating. How do you do that with a parent as a teacher-aide in the classroom. Teachers, teach in the classroom. Parents teach, discipline and help at home. I was appalled when I moved to the U.S. and the school principal called to ask me to be a teacher aid in my daughters’ classrooms. I send them to school to learn, not just reading and writing but to become independent, learn how to deal with other students without my being present – that’s a big part of going to school.
Get the parents out – let the teachers teach.
2. All schools should have uniforms – so much easier on the budget, not to mention, no competition on who has the latest “designer outfit”. When they reach High School in my district, it’s make-up, earrings, bare midriffs – totally wrong. Get the uniforms – we are bringing up a bunch of sexpots.
3. I often go to Aruba – a small island – all schools have uniforms – all schools. Most importantly, they graduate from High School speaking FIVE LANGUAGES FLUENTLY. A waitress speaks five languages. They start in grade -1-, a different language every day for twelve years. Children are sponges at 5 or 6 – they learn languages fast – we, the famous U.S. start teaching a second language in grade 9.
4. Too much time off. Our children only have 180 days of learning in a year. They go to school at 8;00 – 8:30 a,m, and come out at 2:45 p.m. – How much can they learn in that time period of a school when you consider recess, lunch, etc. Holidays: One week at Christmas and one month in the summer is enough “off school days”. Parties at school – we have to teach our children how to work, how to think and how to behave. Teach them life is ‘work’ – not parties. They have a party for Halloween, Christmas, Easter and everybody’s birthday – the home, the family, is where the parties are held, not the schools – school is their job. They must be taught discipline, politeness, how to deal with people.
We must go back to the basics – our children, thank God not all – are rude, no manners and have no respect for adults, life and things, let alone their own families.
There are things in education that of course have been a great improvement in how they learn. Computers for instance – what would we do now without them – but we have forgotten the basics. We have to stop coddling and start teaching and disciplining. The smallest things in life have all but been forgotten.
Thanks for listening.
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