There is a lot being said today about the breakdown of the educational system in the United States and there are many theories as to what is going wrong as the United States falls further and further behind the rest of the world. I think our education system is being destroyed by design, just as surely as our economic system has and is. If you take something that works, start changing it, and you see the changes are adversely affecting the function, do you continue to change, or do you go back to what worked?
Billions of dollars are being spent on curriculums which dissuade from reading, writing, and arithmetic and toward multi-culturalism and social order and we wonder what is wrong?
The concept was simple in the beginning. A high school education was designed to instill in the student the necessities needed to self teach. From there, if properly educated, the student could go to a library and literally learn how to do anything. But as the social dogma crept into the system, the emphasis shifted from what to know to how to act, leaving any higher learning to be accessed only by those who could afford private tutors and college tuitions.
What we are seeing is nothing more than the implementation of another control mechanism. If a majority of the population can be left ignorant, they can be controlled by and will offer no threat to the elite portion of the population.
Indeed it would seem the biggest problem the international socialist insurgency is having in accomplishing total domination is the remnants of intellect still retained on a sliding scale from we baby boomers to the next generation behind us. We were highly educated because the elite needed us to be in order for us to create the technology to provide them with a life of leisure and ease. Now that the creation has been accomplished, they prefer passive slaves to maintain it.
We, being those who created the technology, maintain the notion that we should actually get to benefit from it, which is an affront to the elite as possession of the best is their mark.
To summarize, the very things that the elite put forth to set them apart were created by us and we, being the producers, if we have access to the resources, can simply create the same for ourselves. And this is the ultimate threat to the elite. This is why they guard and hoard our resources. This is why they fear us. No matter what lies they put forth, they know deep down in their hearts that what we have created we absolutely can destroy, and the ultimate reality is we created the elite.
Our education has been destroyed since the 60’s and 70’s and theorized on being destroyed decades before that. It is just that the past generation has finally completed and gotten off the socialist education production line and so the elite are continuing to produce more and more of their sheeples out of the factory, while the baby boomers and the last of the real generation of educators and thinkers are struggling to get through to the zombies. “All hope lies within the proles” as George Orwell so eloquently puts it. They need to be woken up and re-educated to fight for their survival.
Read “The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America” by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt. It says it all about our education over the past century. Plain and simple.
Hmm. Here is the way I see it. I’m in Texas, and supposedly we’re not so good at this. That said:
I’m 45, my kids are 16 and 18.
I first heard the term “critical thinking” well after starting college. It was in their curriculum since the fifth grade.
I wrote my first essay in 12th grade and struggled when starting college. They did in seventh. They spit out papers constantly now and will ease into college life.
I took trig and calc in 12th grade. They do as well, except it started in 11th and it’s AP so now they won’t have to do it again in college.
With this perspective, I take accusations of “dumbing us down” with a heavy grain of salt, to say the least.
Now, all that said, their history classes are weak compared to mine. Ironic since I now know how much of mine was utter BS. We supplement theirs and they are interested so that works out well.
They have no civics nor economics classes. I believe we know the reason behind this, no? Here we supplement again. Raise no sheep.
The thing I see the most is this: Their “peers” make the worst kids of my age seem like choirboys. Lucky for us Texas offers virtual public school online so the are not around them. If you can raise a good moral child in that environment, my hat is off to you. I see the least common denominator holding back an entire generation and I blame the parents and the “politically correct” society that enables them. I know many teachers, and I blame none of them. They are my age, and their dream career is a nightmare in far too many cases.
“If you can raise a good moral child in that environment, my hat is off to you. I see the least common denominator holding back an entire generation and I blame the parents and the “politically correct” society that enables them. I know many teachers, and I blame none of them. They are my age, and their dream career is a nightmare in far too many cases.”
As a former teacher, I thank you for saying that, as I, and many other teachers will completely agree with you.
Public schools these days are nothing more than indoctrination centers.
The only true education kids can receive anymore is through home-schooling.
Which is exactly why the so-called ‘government’ demonizes parents who do so.