Suggested Answers to the Short Quiz

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Question 1

Is there a War on Women being conducted by the infamous Billionaires' Club?

Answer 1

So it would appear.

Question 2

Does our author Dana Goldstein describe how Catherine Beecher, “America’s first media darling school reformer” and sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe, almost single-handedly turned the teaching profession that was 90% male in 1800 into one dominated by women based on the argument that teaching was/is better suited to gentle, pious, unmarried women who could be paid a pittance because they had no families to support?

Answer 2

Yes.

Question 3

Is this still reflected today in teacher pay?

Answer 3

Yes, as Dana Goldstein documents.

Question 4

In that long arc of two centuries, has American society dictated until relatively recently that women are restricted to three fields (teaching, nursing and secretarial) for which they can be paid slave wages?

Answer 4

Unfortunately yes.

Question 5

Why does American society worship medical doctors when a surgeon has essentially the same skill set as a plumber?

Answer 5

God only knows!!!

Though Yours Truly has read articles in psychology journals that suggest that it is the same reason that America used to accord astronomical salaries to airline pilots who have essentially the same skill set as a bus driver!!!

The psychology articles suggest that once an airplane leaves the ground, the typical human being has the subconscious psychological feeling that it will take A MIRACLE to land safely.

Just like the psychology articles suggest that when the typical human being is facing surgery, s/he has the subconscious psychological feeling that it will take A MIRACLE for everything to turn out right.

Incidentally, the same psychology articles explain (1) that airliner windows are so small because anything larger would give the typical human being the subconscious psychological feeling that the windows are NOT merely pictures on a wall, BUT RATHER that s/he is flying, and (2) that airliner seats do NOT face backwards which, of course, all experts agree would be much safer in a crash, because backward-facing seats would also give the typical human being the subconscious psychological feeling that s/he is flying.

Question 6

Did the old Soviet Union treat the medical profession as “women’s work” that earned a pittance?

Answer 6

Yes.

Question 7

Did the old Soviet Union instead treat education with much greater respect and shower its K-12 teachers with remuneration that dwarfed what it paid its medical doctors?

Answer 7

Yes.

Question 8

Has Ben Carson, current Presidential Candidate and retired Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins, described at length on national TV how American doctors flock to specialties (vs. becoming general practitioners) because specialists earn more money than general practitioners (GP’s) even though America has a shortage of GP’s? Is such a display of greed unseemly for what the old Soviet Union treated as low-paid “women’s work”?

Answer 8

Yes, Dr. Carson has.

Such a display of greed is unseemly for any kind of work.

Question 9

In addition to Bill and Melinda Gates, who are the other members of the infamous Billionaires' Club that are waging this War on Women?

Answer 9

The Walton (Walmart) Family Foundation and the Michael and Susan Dell (computer) Foundation, to name a few.

Question 10

Did Bill and Melinda Gates and their foundation enter the stage AFTER Eugene Lang’s “I Have A Dream”® Foundation had demonstrated in 179 programs in 51 American cities during the 1990’s that the typical SINGLE-DIGIT inner-city high-school graduation rates could typically be increased to more than 90% by adopting an entire third-grade class of an inner-city school and providing its members with tutoring and mentoring through high school graduation with a guarantee of college tuition?

Answer 10

Yes.

Question 11

Did Bill and Melinda Gates and their foundation lead the nation away from this Promised Land to worship for 10 years the False Idol of breaking up inner-city schools into smaller units?

Answer 11

Yes.

Question 12

After admitting the failure of that approach, did Bill and Melinda Gates and their foundation cause the nation to worship the False Idol of School Choice which, after another decade of Wandering In The Wilderness, was evaluated in a national study in 2009 conducted by Stanford University and FINANCED BY THE PRO-CHARTER WALTON FAMILY FOUNDATION AND THE MICHAEL AND SUSAN DELL FOUNDATION of 2,403 charter schools (about half of all charter schools and 70% of all charter-school students) -- which found that 37% of the charter schools had learning gains that were SIGNIFICANTLY BELOW those of local public schools, 46% had gains that were no different, and ONLY 17 PER CENT had growth that was significantly better (this despite “cherry picking” the best applicants and expelling poor-performing students!!!)???

Answer 12

Yes.

Question 13

Have Bill and Melinda Gates and their foundation finally admitted that their War On Women (or at least their War On Teachers) is treating a SOCIOLOGY PROBLEM as an EDUCATION PROBLEM and makes no more sense than firing the inner-city police in whose precinct a crime is committed and hiring amateurs in their place?

Answer 13

Unfortunately not!!!

Question 14

Did we decide after our 9/12/2012 meeting (A) that the behavior of Bill and Melinda Gates and their foundation meets the definition of Crimes Against Humanity in the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court at The Hague and (B) to petition President Obama pursuant to the ICC rules to request the U.N. Security Council to provide the ICC with jurisdiction to prosecute the Gates?

Answer 14

We decided that since the reckless behavior exhibited by Bill and Melinda Gates and their foundation had “condemned more inner-city children to a ‘fate worse than death’ than the number of victims involved in all of the prosecutions at the International Criminal Court combined,” the definition of “Crimes Against Humanity” in the Rome Statute had been satisfied and it was appropriate to petition President Obama to request the U.N. Security Council to provide the ICC under its rules with jurisdiction to prosecute the Gates.

Question 15

Does our current author Dana Goldstein catalogue virtually all of the ideas currently being peddled by the Billionaires' Club and demonstrate that they have ALL BEEN TRIED IN THE PAST AND FAILED?

Answer 15

Yes.

Question 16

Following our 6/17/2015 meeting, did we launch one of our Six-Degrees-Of-Separation E-mail Campaigns requesting Pope Francis during his American visit last month to challenge Americans in general and, in particular, America’s 78.2 million baptized Roman Catholics who comprise 24% of the population to LOVE THEIR NEIGHBORS AS THEMSELVES by becoming the Surrogate Parent tutors and mentors organized by their clergy to minister to the 23% of American children who UNICEF confirms live in poverty (which is more than double, and typically 3-4 times, the rate tolerated by any other industrialized country)?

Answer 16

Yes, we were hopeful that Pope Francis cared about America’s poor.

Question 17

Going back to The Promised Land of Eugene Lang’s “I Have A Dream”® Foundation and its 179 programs in 51 American cities during the 1990’s, did Hillary Clinton serve on the IHAD National Advisory Board until the 1992 Iowa caucuses?

Answer 17

Yes.

Question 18

And did the first President Bush love to explain that the “1,000 Points Of Light” portion of his 1989 Inaugural Address was inspired by IHAD for whose Boston program he raised prodigious amounts of contributions (IHAD-Boston was headed by his nephew Jamie Bush) and ditto for IHAD-Houston where the first President Bush lived?

Answer 18

Yes.

Question 19

If Charles Dickens were still alive, could he write a new book called A Tale Of Two Families in which (A) Hillary Clinton remains true to the IHAD Dream and proposes during her current Campaign for President free tuition at all state colleges and universities, and (B) Jeb Bush betrays the IHAD Dream by retiring as Florida Governor and, for the next decade, working to peddle the Snake Oil education policies of the Billionaires' Club?

Answer 19

Yes.

Question 20

Would Hillary Clinton’s Dream of free tuition at all state colleges and universities provide The Carrot that could transform existing organizations such as Big Brothers Big Sisters and Boys & Girls Clubs to provide more effective Surrogate Parent mentors and tutors for our inner-city children?

Answer 20

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!

Question 21

Since Hillary Clinton has proved how bright and imaginative she is, can she be expected to find a way to induce the existing Surrogate Parent organizations such as Big Brothers Big Sisters and Boys & Girls Clubs, to concentrate on entire classes of an inner-city school (or entire class cohorts of public housing projects) since the “I Have A Dream”® results demonstrate that much, if not most, of its success came from enclosing an entire class in a protective cocoon in which education was revered rather than disrespected?

Answer 21

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!

Question 22

Is there anything we can do to encourage all of the Presidential candidates to embrace Hillary’s proposal so that mainstreaming America’s Permanent Under-Caste can finally become a bi-partisan reality?

Answer 22

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!