by My articles in District Administration Magazine and The Pulse: Education’s Place for Debate often elicit strong letters from readers, but today’s mailbag reached a new low.
Someone read an online synopsis of a recent article and sent me a screed full of personal attacks.
The email and my response follows. Enjoy!
The email message I received:
I see that you have nothing better to do. Jealousy! What can you do about it? There are more important issues than Oprah and her money. What’s your contribution to how we tackle illiteracy? What else have you written? What research have you conducted? As the old saying goes, You’re a part of the problem. Where is the solution?
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Title: Oprah’s Edifice Complex.
Authors: Stager, Gary gary@stager.org
Source: District Administration; Jun2007, Vol. 43 Issue 6, p84-84, 1p
Document Type: Article
Subject Terms: *EDUCATIONAL leadership
*SCHOOL buildings
*SINGLE-sex schools
WINFREY, Oprah
Geographic Terms: SOUTH Africa
Abstract: The article discusses the author’s perspective on the establishment of the school Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa. He cites that the $40 million school established by TV host Winfrey has been subjected of controversy which some people are offended that it features fine china and trillion thread count sheets. He admits that he already read and watched about the school but still asks the educational philosophy of the school and the learning theories that excite Winfrey.
ISSN: 1537-5749
Accession Number: 25585814
Database: Academic Search Premier
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I responded as follows:
Dear Anonymous Card Catalog Reader:
Thank you for your email. You may read my dozens of publications at http://www.stager.org/articles and my qualifications at http://www.stager.org/bio While there. You can actually read the article that seems to have offended you.
All the very best,
Gary
Veteran educator Gary Stager, Ph.D. is the author of Twenty Things to Do with a Computer – Forward 50, co-author of Invent To Learn — Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom, publisher at Constructing Modern Knowledge Press, and the founder of the Constructing Modern Knowledge summer institute. He led professional development in the world’s first 1:1 laptop schools thirty years ago and designed one of the oldest online graduate school programs. Gary is also the curator of The Seymour Papert archives at DailyPapert.com. Learn more about Gary here.