Oprah wants to create an elite school where people strive to get into. The school has less to do with helping people than it does to do with strengthening the Oprah brand and exporting and instilling her sense of good morals. The kids that come from the school will be instilled with a filtered and refined Opra-esue form of that irritating american sensibility.
If these children become the next leaders of our country, then the power they usurp will be thiers to share with Oprah, who would hopefully have died by the time they do become leaders.
What Orpah is doing is the exportation of her own morals to South Africa, a form of coloonisation if you will. Orpah is the living embodyment of the irritating mid western american housewife sense of morality that says you shouldnt hit your kids, you shouldnt smoke and people who do are evil, America is the best counrty in the world, etc,etc,etc.... I could go on and on but ...
@ Debbie@: Oprah was involved in every aspect of the school, including selection of the teachers and the curriculum. A few of teh articles I read gave me the disticnt impression that this venture's primary intention is not to educate but an intent to instill a specifc world view and set of morals...
