Billionaire School

So what do we think about The School That Oprah Built?

Not many hand-picked groups of 150 girls have $40 million standing behind their learning . . .

I heard about it on National Public Radio yesterday, and then today Newsweek arrived and Favorite Daughter read it to me in the car. Quite the personal project. It reminds me of what Andre Agassi has done with his school, in the sense that it's a very personal education project for disadvantaged kids he relates to, and Bill Gates (with his new honorary title of most influential on education in the last decade), all of which then got me thinking about how major education benefactors have ALWAYS been major-factors, whether they turned out to be "bene" or not.

Stray thought - Walt Disney has special apartments built on Main Street USA for himself and his family, to watch benevolently over his world while children experienced it. Oprah is having a house built on the grounds of her South African campus so she can do the same. The only difference I see, is that Walt never SAID it was about Schooling instead of Dreaming.

I dream of the day we can enjoy the fulfillment of dreams without pretending it is School.

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