Education

The key to fixing everything! Graduate students who become citizens who can think straight and have common sense. But our educational systems have been in shambles for a long time.

Kamala Harris wants to do something about it. She's made education reform a major concern in her campaign for president. Her reasoning is perfect: much of the 2016 election was determined by ignorance! Great to hear a politician say that at last.

The late great Oregon senator Wayne Morse considered himself the education senator. When I wrote my one man play about him, I concluded with a speech that must have Morse squirming in his grave to see what has happened since his death:

 MORSE

            So if you asked me, Wayne Morse, name

            the one thing in our country that you

            think will do more to strengthen

            American foreign policy in the next

            half century, you might be surprised

            at my reply. I would say, Do something

            to protect the educational standard of

            American boys and girls.  Do something

            to protect American brain power. 

            Because the only sure and lasting

            defense of peace is a highly educated

            and enlightened citizenry.