l******a 发帖数: 3803 | 1 The meeting actually lasted forty-five minutes, and Jobs did not hold back.
“You’re headed for a one-term presidency,” Jobs told Obama at the outset.
To prevent that, he said, the administration needed to be a lot more
business-friendly. He described how easy it was to build a factory in China,
and said that it was almost impossible to do so these days in America,
largely because of regulations and unnecessary costs.
Jobs also attacked America’s education system, saying that it was
hopelessly antiquated and crippled by union work rules. Until the teachers’
unions were broken, there was almost no hope for education reform. Teachers
should be treated as professionals, he said, not as industrial assembly-
line workers. Principals should be able to hire and fire them based on how
good they were. Schools should be staying open until at least 6 p.m. and be
in session eleven months of the year. It was absurd, he added, that American
classrooms were still based on teachers standing at a board and using
textbooks. All books, learning materials, and assessments should be digital
and interactive, tailored to each student and providing feedback in real
time.
When Jobs’s turn came, he stressed the need for more trained engineers and suggested
that any foreign students who earned an engineering degree in the United States should
be given a visa to stay in the country. Obama said that could be done only in the
context of the “Dream Act,” which would allow illegal aliens who arrived as minors and
finished high school to become legal residents—something that the Republicans had
blocked. Jobs found this an annoying example of how politics can lead to paralysis. “The
president is very smart, but he kept explaining to us reasons why things can’t get
done,” he recalled. “It infuriates me.”
Jobs went on to urge that a way be found to train more American engineers. Apple had
700,000 factory workers employed in China, he said, and that was because it needed
30,000 engineers on-site to support those workers. “You can’t find that many in America
to hire,” he said. These factory engineers did not have to be PhDs or geniuses; they
simply needed to have basic engineering skills for manufacturing. Tech schools,
community colleges, or trade schools could train them. “If you could educate these
engineers,” he said, “we could move more manufacturing plants here.” The argument made a
strong impression on the president. Two or three times over the next month he told his
aides, “We’ve got to find ways to train those 30,000 manufacturing engineers that Jobs
told us about.” | c*******d 发帖数: 1283 | 2 This sounds like Steve Jobs had transformed from a liberal into a
conservative, and the communist china has a lot for the us to learn from.
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【在 l******a 的大作中提到】 : The meeting actually lasted forty-five minutes, and Jobs did not hold back. : “You’re headed for a one-term presidency,” Jobs told Obama at the outset. : To prevent that, he said, the administration needed to be a lot more : business-friendly. He described how easy it was to build a factory in China, : and said that it was almost impossible to do so these days in America, : largely because of regulations and unnecessary costs. : Jobs also attacked America’s education system, saying that it was : hopelessly antiquated and crippled by union work rules. Until the teachers’ : unions were broken, there was almost no hope for education reform. Teachers : should be treated as professionals, he said, not as industrial assembly-
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