Don't Listen to What Americans Say; Watch What We Do

This is the first in a series of lessons titled, "Don't Listen to What Americans Say; Watch What We Do."

• What Americans say: We want children to have the best education in the world.
• What Americans do: We make sausages, with 30+ per students per teacher and acceptably high drop-out rates for the buck.
• What Americans should do (minimally): Position qualified teachers as mentors, with only a handful of students per class, maybe 10, and no more than 5 in places with high drop-out rates. 

Why the latter? It's called the Hawthorne Effect. Read up, friends. Read up.

--- What was the original American Aurora? The Aurora was a newspaper published by Benjamin Franklin Bache , a grandson of Benjamin Franklin. The Aurora was published in Philadelphia, our nation's capitol at the time.

The Aurora was highly critical of what Bache felt was the tyrannous Federalist governments of presidents Washington and Adams.

The result? Adams imprisoned Bache for sedition, where he languished, awaiting trial, until his death from yellow fever at age 29.