Teachers And The Economy

The Pygmalion Effect : NO QUARTER: "...In short, Mr. Schiller was stating what I learned lo those many, many years ago. Except he was now applying it to the President’s negative words and fear mongering about the economy.

This is what he had to say:

“President Barack Obama has turned fear mongering into an art form. He has repeatedly raised the specter of another Great Depression. First, he did so to win votes in the November election. He has done so again recently to sway congressional votes for his stimulus package.

“In his remarks, every gloomy statistic on the economy becomes a harbinger of doom. As he tells it, today’s economy is the worst since the Great Depression. Without his Recovery and Reinvestment Act, he says, the economy will fall back into that abyss and may never recover.

“This fear mongering may be good politics, but it is bad history and bad economics.”

How true. How true. How true."

That, perhaps, explains Obama's many successes as a community organizer and, and, uh, uh, has he actually had another job?

People will live down to your expectations, especially students.