Well, well. Eric Cantor’s replacement didn’t waste any time showing us that having a PhD doesn’t necessarily make one smart.
In one of his first comments in a House committee hearing, Brat unloaded this gem:
During a House Education and Workforce Committee proceeding on Wednesday to reauthorize the nation’s elementary and secondary education law, Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) said, “Socrates trained Plato in on a rock and then Plato trained in Aristotle roughly speaking on a rock. So, huge funding is not necessary to achieve the greatest minds and the greatest intellects in history.”
. . . He later went on to say that he thinks the answer to improving education in this country “would be to get private sector folks into every one of our schools, get the CEOs in the schools and move beyond this just narrow policy debate and really have a revolution.”
http://thinkprogress.org/educa…
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