Trump Signs Executive Order to Abolish Department of Education
Donald Trump has signed an executive order to dismantle the US Department of Education while seated at a tiny desk surrounded by schoolchildren. The Telegraph has more.
The order hands control over education policy from the federal government to states and local boards.
“We’re going to be returning education, very simply, back to the states where it belongs,” the President said at the White House ceremony.
Before sitting down behind his desk, the President asked the group of assembled children if he should sign the order and was greeted by enthusiastic nods.
As he put pen to paper, the children behind him, who were each given their own black felt tip pen and document, signed their own names before raising the documents in the air.
It is not the first time the President has been given an under-sized desk for a signing ceremony. In 2017, he signed several pieces of legislation into law behind a desk he described as a “child’s desk” and “the smallest desk I’ve ever seen”.
The decision to close the department is likely to set up another battle in the courts as shuttering it completely requires the approval of Congress, and the President does not currently have enough votes for that.
The order follows the department’s announcement last week that it would lay off nearly half of its staff and is the latest step by Mr Trump to cut through federal bureaucracy.
Mr Trump said he wants Linda McMahon, the Education Secretary, who attended the White House event, to put herself out of a job. “Hopefully you won’t be there too long,” he said.
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Hi PSI Readers,
I taught chemistry at a small community college for 20+ years but I had never read that Galileo,, the mathematics teacher, is said to have stated “We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves” until after I had retired. So, I had never pondered how do we help them to discover it within themselves. Have any of you readers discovered how to do this as a teacher? If you have please inform us.
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“how do we help them to discover it within themselves”
Galileo seems to suggest that every person has the ability to be anything they like. This, as we know, is incorrect. Some people will never be good at certain tasks or subjects no matter the effort expended.
Of course, a person may have a gift for something they may not be aware of, or thought they were no good at, but others’ can see, and it simply needs coaxing out. I’ve said it before, one’s view of life and capabilities are distorted, but not necessarily to onlookers.
Likewise, if one has an interest in something, one simply makes the choice to pursue it, while time will tell if they are suitable or not.
Life is not constructed from free choice, and is often fated. If the person makes the wrong choices, the fated life will never materialize. No other person has a say in that.
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