European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the stars and stripes april 1977 Jesse Jackson our education engine needs an overhaul if the american education engine goes deeper than Blacks or int overhauled All of us Are going to american education has simply discover were stranded in a society that lost its will for it no longer is the going were not Only trapped in a Citadel from which excellence its like an engine without siting it soon will be Frozen by rust if it it will quickly Burn itself it needs the elasticity of service and spirit it needs a sense of sacrifice and commit Jam of stalled and empty but our priceless decision engine is full of Call it an epidemic of it int it int it int it int it int inner it is a National Epi Demic of failure by the Public schools of the of were relying on an eight Cylinder engine that sometimes hits on six Colin sometimes on occasionally on but never on a tuneup wont fix the problem Many of its key components work Only on How to bypass and Styk dents graduate for just showing up teach ers get raises for the same students and teachers demand rewards for no pro auction and they get How few papers do i have to write How few papers do i have to Grade to save the we have to know its we have to know How its put together so we can take it apart and restore part by part by we have to know what each Cylinder have to know How its throwing off the next the and the take a look at the pitiful american Public school it basically operates on eight cylinders i first is the politician and this is the Cylinder that takes and distributes the taxes that pay for the engines of sweaters and tears William Buckley 2 things wrong with Carter plan whats right about the Carter Energy plan it resists for the most the temptations of economic interventionists to fix prices below the level they would Rise to under the free play of economic it resists or outright proscription for of the big anybody who wants to can still buy a big car and drive it around the Block All Day and All if that is his pleasure and he can afford to indulge whats wrong with the Carter Energy plan surely we need direct action against and the Best Way to get it is to Lay Down discriminatory tariffs against the open taxing the imported barrel according As the producing nation is profiteering from the captive saudi which spends 18 cents bringing up a barrel of Oil would be taxed More heavily which spends a couple of if a Flo import tax were put on saudi and an 8 tax on venezuelan the pressure on the saudis to reduce their prices thus fracturing the Cartel would be As it two i it appears to accept As All Carters references to per the Price of Oil the administered Price of milling the Price of Oil to Rise gradual the open it seems Only yes Lerly to the Market Price Are Day that the whole of the industrialized inasmuch As there is no Market the Price is the Cartel of course there is All that dash ing about with sacks of dollars by govern ment messengers looking for Small car poor which Mes sengers will surely lose their sense of direction before they Are the higher Cost of fuel should go straight the that much of it that is world was United in the resentment Over the quadrupling of the Price of Oil by the open during those heated Days drastic acts of retaliation were openly Dis including at one Point the possibility of military that no formula for breaking Down the Cartel was hit upon hardly argues for the abandoning of the search for such a forum after during the same period we had no Energy now that we Are formulating an Energy ought it not to be conjoined with the policy directed at the Cartel that is maintaining in prices at synthetically High Levels to the Windfall should be exempt from Taxa Long As it is invested in explore or the search for substitute fuel if the Oil Compa Nies then the benefits will inure to All if they then the Windfall profits will realize the notion that we should accept the responsibility for diminishing the Burden of the poorer Consumers by the use of proceeds which should be devoted to the search for new fuels is intellectually Dis we dont remit to the poorer people a part of the taxes paid by Richer people on cigarettes and whisky Rich and poor alike pay the same taxes on these so should it be with so was it with food three Summers the prices of Grain and meat Rose so Steep our concern for the poor should be a concern for their Standard of and there Are sound reasons to argue for direct subsidies at that Standard of but there is no argument that Doest serve to complicate the responsibility of the Well off for the less Selloff for impounding tax revenues from the Sale of a particular product and using them As the source of re help for the poor should come from general not from sur pluses created by a tax designed to reduce demand and increase one suspects that president Carter is playing politics let him do but let others refuse to were not Only engaged in fighting a Hie but in establishing important u sur school this Cylinder sets the schools guiding policies and hires the most important those charged with Overall operation of the he or she articulates policies and serves the school sys tems administrative and spiritual 4 the it is their duty to implies ment and translate both the literal and spiritual policies of the Board and superintendent and to keep the fuel Money and 5 the he is the manager of the specific school he needs both Freedom and responsibility to he must be the immediate moral authority who exemplifies and demands discipline of All those at his discipline must be seen As not As punishment As a shaper of a productive not an expression of 6 credentials Arent a teacher cant teach if she or he lacks real concern for the minds under her or his influence each if the teacher Doest the student care is you cant Transfer heat unless youre on and great teachers have a burning Zeal to impart 7 they must be willing to they must come to know that Crea Tive change comes through not they must develop a sense of Priori ties As Well As self Reliance is the key to developing will Power and eliminating the dependency syndrome and kill they Are not Only the Cru Cial eighth but the engine without no ones going they create the children that the schools must they pay the taxes that fuel the but they must do still More they must energize the they must motivate their their concern must be fell by the other seven cylinders so that they dont grind on at their own it will not be easy to restore the Educa Tion engine because the first four cylinders Are so much More visible than the last when the Media open the Hood to examine the education they rarely see past the first four cylinders school superintendent and but the real actions Down there in cylinders five to to save the we have to Stop tinkering and get Down there where things really if american education is going to this part of the engine is where it must happen parents and teachers must be allies As a adversaries Only Occa when these four cylinders Are in tune and powerful the front four will hum along with to get the overhaul principals and teachers need to understand that they do not work for the nor for the us nor for the unions and Asso their employers Are the Complete reorientation of relation ships is in never again should a strike be called without room at the table for the primary investor and these eight great cylinders working at Cross purposes make a terrific but have no that Why theres a moral and educational imperative that these Cyl inders find their common parents should not be intimidated nor should they be most everyone including parents must see that the foundation of the entire system is the if parents Are not at the found theres a Hole in the bucket and eventually All will be u schools have the cooperation of Par if parents have the cooperation of children and the and if the Media will begin to transmit the essential rather than the then the american education engine will Start to hit on All Cyl when that it will carry us to a future we