I usually ignore education reformers who have never been teachers. I ignore them because they want to improve student test scores, while ignoring unequal opportunity. Only philosophical, K-12 teachers understand that our greatest failure is not students’ low test scores; it is our failure to provide equal educational opportunity.
But I have written about Bill Gates in these blogs. (See https://sixvirtues.com/blog/2011/07/19/bill-gates-teachers-are-like-athletes-artists-or-social-scientists)
I don’t know Bill Gates, but I know his ideas get a lot of publicity. Our society develops according to the ideas of people who have access to the media. Bill Gates has the money and power to promote his ideas, even if they lack merit. That is why I blog about him.
