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The Hidden Dark Agenda of Public Education
“An alien collectivist (socialist) philosophy, much of which came from Europe, crashed onto the shores of our nation, bringing with it radical changes in economics, politics, and education, funded - surprisingly enough - by several wealthy American families and their tax-exempt foundations. The goal of these wealthy families and their foundations - a seamless non-competitive global system for commerce and trade - when stripped of flowery expressions of concern for minorities, the less fortunate, etc., represented the initial stage of what this author now refers to as the deliberate dumbing down of America. Seventy years later, the carefully laid plans to change America from a sovereign, constitutional republic with a free enterprise economic base to just one of many nations in an international socialist (collectivist) system (New World Order) are apparent. Only a dumbed down population, with no memory of America’s roots as a prideful nation, could be expected to willingly succumb to the global workforce training planned by the Carnegie Corporation and the John D. Rockefellers, I and II.”
- US Department of Education Senior Policy Advisor Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt
Yesterday I released an article, “Lack of Critical Thinking is Key to the Corrupt Status Quo Maintaining Their Power”, on my blog and at ZeroHedge and it generated a lot of comments including those that stated they don’t believe in conspiracies or the existence of a “big bad wolf” that deliberately is “out to get us”. However, for those of us familiar with the works of John Taylor Gatto, we know that there are literally mountains of evidence that indict former Presidents and corporate businessmen with deliberately steering the global education system towards the singular mission of producing obedient factory workers to serve the corporate industrialists during the Industrial Revolution. Furthermore, there are mountains of evidence, direct from the horse’s mouth, that their continued mission for the academic system today is to produce obedient servants to the State and to kill any individualism and critical thinking that may lead to an awakened state among the masses that would challenge the moral authority, or rather lack thereof, of those in power.
John Taylor Gatto, one of the most well-known and outspoken critics of the public education system, quit his 30-year teaching career in 1991, because confined within the system, Gatto believe he was hurting children more than helping them. He stated the following as his reason for leaving institutional academia:
“I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells instead of letting them grow up knowing their families, mingling with the world, assuming real obligations, striving to be independent and self-reliant and free...I don’t mean to be inflammatory, but it’s as if government schooling made people dumber, not brighter; made families weaker, not stronger...the training field for these grotesque human qualities is the classroom. Schools train individuals to respond as a mass. Boys and girls are drilled in being bored, frightened, envious, emotionally needy, and generally incomplete. A successful mass production economy requires such a clientele. A small business, small farm economy like that of the Amish requires individual competence, thoughtfulness, compassion, and universal participation; our own requires a managed mass of leveled, spiritless, anxious, family-less, friendless, godless, and obedient people who believe the difference between Cheers and Seinfeld is a subject worth arguing about. An executive director of the National Education Association announced that his organization expected ‘to accomplish by education what dictators in Europe are seeking to do by compulsion and force.’ You can’t get much clearer than that. WWII drove the project underground, but hardly retarded its momentum. Following cessation of global hostilities, school became a major domestic battleground for the scientific rationalization of social affairs through compulsory indoctrination.”
I precisely stated in my article yesterday, “Refuse to accept something as fact just because an authority figure, whether a professor, the Vatican, or politician, told you to believe it, and automatically many amongst the sheep will accuse one of pandering to conspiracy theories, even when one can present many facts that support one’s opposition view much more strongly than the widely accepted view” in the hopes that people would read this line and digest historical facts before dismissing the main points of my article. Yet, from reading the comments posted below my article yesterday, it seems as though some may have dismissed my argument before even examining the facts.
Mr. O.A. Nelson, retired educator, recounted a December 1928 meeting in which he spoke to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His recollection of the meeting below addresses some of the comments posted on my article from yesterday regarding the importance of sciences.
"We were 13 at the meeting. Two things caused Dr. Ziegler, who was Chairman of the Educational Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations, to ask me to attend...my talk on the teaching of functional physics in high school, and the fact that I was a member of Progressive Educators of America, which was nothing but a Communist front. I thought the word ‘progressive’ meant progress for better schools. Eleven of those attending the meeting were leaders in education. Drs. John Dewey and Edward Thorndike, from Columbia University, were there, and the others were of equal rank. I checked later and found that all were paid members of the Community Party of Russia. I was classified as a member of the Party, but I did not know it at the time. The sole work of the group was to destroy our schools! we spent one hour and forty-five minutes discussing the so-called ‘Modern Math.’ At one point I objected because there was too much memory work, and math is reasoning; not memory. Dr. Ziegler turned to me and said, ‘Nelson, wake up! That is what we want… a math that the pupils cannot apply to life situations when they get out of school!’ That math was not introduced until much later, as those present thought it was too radical a change. A milder course by Dr. Brechner was substituted but it was also worthless, as far as understanding math was concerned. The radical change was introduced in 1952. It was the one we are using now. So, if pupils come out of high school now, not knowing any math, don’t blame them. The results are supposed to be worthless."
While I agree that sciences are critical for learning and also critical for the development of reasoning skills, Dr. Ziegler’s comments reveal that men like him, men that helped shape our academic system, clearly did not want sciences to be taught in a manner that would improve critical thinking and reasoning skills, but instead, in a manner that was completely inapplicable to real life situations.
It is not a coincidence that after I graduated from university, I often would comment to my friends, “You know what, there is not one thing I learned in school that I apply in life today.” In fact, the inapplicability of schooling in life reaches far back from even my university days. When I was 14, I had already completed two years of advanced calculus, and believed in a typical teenager bout of self-delusion, that I was some sort of mathematical genius. But in reality, outside of the praise of my teachers, what was the point of my mathematical "progress" back then? Yes, it enabled me to score a perfect score on the math portion of the SATs and then gain entrance into an Ivy League university. However, in retrospect and in complete absurdity, I cannot think of one instance since my educational career ended that I have ever applied, in real life, anything that I learned during my years of mathematical schooling. It is as if the purpose of my institutional mathematical training was solely to enable me to gain a higher score on a standardized test, a ridiculous purpose if there ever was one. And today? Because all I did was memorize advanced mathematical formulas back then, I have long since forgotten them all, and nothing is applicable to my life today just as Dr. Ziegler of the CFR had desired.
In great irony, it was the very inapplicability of education that allowed me to excel through the system. The advantage I held over all my peers was that I had a photographic memory. I recall even as early as the 6th grade when I could read a passage about the Civil War a single time and remember exactly how many soldiers died from each side in each battle and on what specific date in history. Because the academic system stressed rote memory and regurgitation without any true learning, my photographic memory served me exceedingly well and my teachers labeled me as “gifted” and heaped extra attention upon me, even though I never really began to learn how to critically think until I read books on my own outside of the academic system and after I had already graduated from university.
But what if sciences were taught in a manner that developed critical thinking and reasoning skills? How much easier today would it be today to actually convince people of the fact that the global monetary and Central Banking system is a criminal, immoral system deliberately designed by corporate thieves to harm people instead of help people? How much easier would it be to convince people of State run false flag propaganda such as the bogus enemy engagement of the USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin at the time it happened instead of 40 years later? How much easier would it be to convince people that the two-party system in America is just an illusion to con people into believing they have a choice when no real choice is ever offered to people in elections? Of course, the answer is that it would be infinitely easier.
The lack of developed critical thinking skills in the institutional academic system is also the reason why people continue to falsely believe the propaganda of banker shills that a gold standard helped cause the Great Depression and why it is so difficult to convince Westerners of the value of gold and silver but infinitely easier to convince Asians of the value of gold and silver. The stark dichotomy is due simply to the fact that people believe what the State tells them to believe. Logic, reasoning, and critical thinking are all meals on the menu of threats to the power of the status quo. And this is why the goal of academic education by the elites is to strip away reasoning skills from subjects such as math that inherently rely on reasoning. This is also the reason why institutional academia will never change and that those that wish for it to change find that they cannot work within the system but have to leave it. My friend, Alyssa Gonzales, decided that operating outside of the system and serving as a founding teacher of her own school, Los Feliz Charter School for the Arts, was the best solution to be able to encourage, instead of suppress, the development of critical thinking and reasoning skills of young children. If you live in Los Angeles, please visit her school and support Ms. Gonzales’s efforts, described at their website as the following:
"In contrast to curriculum found in a traditional public school setting which stresses teaching and learning in the areas that can be most easily assessed by standardized testing measures, arts-integrated curriculum develops the whole child: kinesthetic, musical, spatial, interpersonal, intrapersonal and natural intelligences. At LFCSA, we challenge children to construct their own meaning from complex ideas and concepts. Acknowledging that students learn and demonstrate what they know in a variety of ways, our instruction allows children to see, hear, and express according to their individual learning styles."
In support of spreading awareness of the true intent of corporate businessmen that have “donated” billions of dollars to shape the curricula of the most “prestigious” schools in the world today, here is a video titled “The Dark Secrets of Public Education”. Certainly, this video deserves a thousand times more views than the current 9,900 views it has thus far received. If you would like for our communities to be more thoughtful, more open-minded, and more co-operative in the future instead of obedient to the powers that be, please send this article and video to everyone you know so we can foster a more honest and open debate about the State’s goals of institutional academia. Thank you.
Read Part I of this series here, Lack of Critical Thinking is Key to the Corrupt Status Quo Maintaining Their Power
Read Part III of this series here, Business School Curricula Today Lacks Real Critical Knowledge to Survive the Global Economic Crisis.
About the author: JS Kim is the Founder and Chief Investment Strategist for SmartKnowledgeU, a fiercely independent investment research and consulting firm with a mission of helping to stomp out Wall Street fraud and to reinstitute sound monetary principles and sound money worldwide. We sincerely appreciate all of you that continue to “like” our Facebook fan page and "follow us" on Twitter. Through these mediums, we will keep all of you aware of some major campaigns we will be launching in early 2012 to raise global awareness of monetary truth and our proposed solutions to institute sound money that CAN serve as a viable and implementable solution to the financial ills heaped upon us by the global banking cartel.
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The fact that public schools by and large do little if anything to encourage gifted and bright children at an early age does not make for an elitist conspiracy. It just means our (in my opinion) priorities as a country are screwed up.
Carnegie and his libraries were designed to indoctrinate the masses?? Hooey.
The GI bill was a conspiracy too?
Today, bright and gifted students are a challenge that your typical public school system is not well equipped to handled. The resources seem devoted to bringing up the bottom not encouraging the top students. Teachers are graded on the amount of “fails” within their class rooms as opposed to the level of high achievers. It is not about raising the average but raising the bottom. Both should be the goal.
Working to establish a minimal base line is fine so long as it does not come at the expense of the interested, bright and gifted, which is what occurs all too much these days.
How many Zero Hedge reader’s local schools decreased class size, increased gifted programs, added art, science or languages programs. I bet not many. The result of an old time conspiracy or a populace that does not value education and does not want to pay for the best education for our kids.
Back around 1900 books were the primary form of idea exchange. If you controlled the content of the libraries then you had the capability to further your agenda through information control.
This is no different from what we see in the mainstream media today.
The Internet is tearing down over a century of information control by certain elites. The masses are beginning to awaken. They know it and they are worried.
Yeah right... who in their right mind thinks that they can teach their kids at home?
Do you REALLY have the skills to prepare them for tomorrow's world?
Home-schooling is a one way ticket to dumbed-down USA...
Science is BS you say? Then throw out all electronics, medicine, cars, the internet etc etc. and go back to the stone age.
Idiots.
Home schooling is slowly becoming mandatory. In the last two years the number of days off in our local public school has swelled 15 days!! The kids are at home, why not school them?
All driven by budget cuts, all driven by a cost structure burdened by fraudulent pensions and education malinvestments (non readin', writin', n' 'rithmatic).
Its nuts
Oh, and BTW. I have met dozens of kids that were home schooled. Their aptitude, generally blows me away, with overwhelming positive performance on all counts - academic, polite, socialized....for me, I get stuck with private school tuition for my kids ;)
"I have met dozens of kids that were home schooled".
If you're a smart guy you probably know smart people.
But think of the burger-flipping generation homeschooling their kids. Is that REALLY what you want as the future of the USA?
Hey Rocket Scientist:
"tomorrows world" may look astonishingly like our great grandparents world: not the stone age, but something far beyond the comprehension of mental midgets like yurself...ironically, at that juncture science may indeed become re-grounded in "BS"...
If you can't dodge the system completely by getting them out of school altogether, next best thing is to buy some critters that your kids can look after.
All of the massive waves of 'progress' that our western societies experienced in the C19th & C20th came from the period in which the majority of children still performed the "chores" assigned them in the afterschool hours. The steady attrition of personal responsibility and the accompanying standards of socialization[read: ability to perform and value one's role in society] tracks with amazing consistency the loss of our communal roles as caretakers of our four legged friends.
Want to do something seriously radical to fight back against the Powerz???? Buy livestock, then defend your right to keep them. No need to teach your kids the values they are gonna need to stay alive - just set them loose amongst the milieu they are genetically acquainted to adapt to and learn from. Kids are amazing...they luv the responsibility of looking after their younger siblings and the plant and animal kingdoms - who are we to deny them feeling the love they were born with and getting it back in return from those they nurture? Skills?!?! What yu talking bout boy????????
White folks, black folks, what the hay, just let us get back to our roots, things gonna work out jus fine thanks, Brainiac!
I rest my case...
Like the Roman god, Janus, education has two faces: one looks outward and responds to the community/environment/world; the other looks inward to the individual. Each point of view has its own vocabulary, it's own categories for organizing experience.
Janus-Looking-Out uses the vocabulary of: new-world/order/communism/socialism/free enterprise/democracy,accountability/standardized tests/etc. Identify, as many here have, society's needs and you will identify the school structure and funding.
Janus-looking-Inward uses the vocabulary of discovery/critical thinking/constructivism/apprenticeship/progressive, etc. It's concern is the full development of the individual, independent of some societal role or norm or need. the assumption is: a well developed and educated individual will bring value to the community/society in whatever role they arrive. I would argue that our school system has taken some important steps in identifying the need to educate ALL, and have funded many resources toward that end: special ed/ESL/learning resources/etc.
Both are operating all the time with the culture dominating in the structure and funding and certification of the schooling and the teachers.
The role of the individual, and individuals in collabortion, is to protect and nurture the development of the individual through democratic participation in the decision making, community pressure, unions, elections.
We've got a problem when the individuals in collabortation lose their "seat at the table" and lose their ability to engage in the deciion process. I think that's the current situation.
I cannot say if there really was a Dark Agenda that was the result of deliberate planning, or if it was just the result of meddlesome liberal attempts to shape education in a way they thought better. However, I do know that when a child never grows up in their system, they are different from those who do. The most successful escapees are children who are homeschooled. Children who attend private or conventional Catholic schools are less successful. The difference is that private schools overwhelmingly are just private versions of public schools. Their teachers went to the same universities and the accreditation standards are either the very same as for public schools or they were set by people of the same mold and mindset.
I know as a parent of a now-adult child who was homeschooled, that homeschooled children typically are at least one grade level above their age peers. In the case of my daughter, she was two grade levels above. But this comparison allows the public school system to be the standard. We don't know what children are capable of, we only know what results that over a million home schooled children have achieved over several decades.
Just as the public model for running a package delivery system was a failed one and easily surpassed by private efforts, the public model for educating children is an ongoing failure. But children are not packages that only arrive late, they are human beings whose life-long potential will be forever less than it could have been because of they way we educated them. It now costs more than $1 million to graduate a single student who is competent at their grade level in math and science from some inner city school districts. If this was a corporation, the only answer would be liquidation and redefinition. It is not that public teachers are not dedicated or mostly competent. The system they work in makes it impossible for the average to be sufficiently sufficient. The system must be destroyed for education to achieve the results we all desire for every child. The only answer is to allow a free market to spring up and compete for students based on the results they can prove and that we all agree are important.
We may properly want government to ensure that every child is properly educated. Why in the world would anyone want or even allow government to actually run the schools that function requires?
George Carlin says the "Real Owners" of the country only want "Obedient Workers", not (educated) thinkers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q
Enjoyed this article very much. Public school is 90% wated time...IMHO
The federal government does not want thinkers. Basic algebra teaches what happens when two exponents run away from each other. Look at US DEBT to GDP and look at the comparative value of the US Dollar to say Gold.
All 'they' want are good little slaves, who go to work as often as possible doing any job, so that they can collect taxes, both directly and indirectly from the masses and distribute them as they deem appropriate.
Thanks, right on Kim! The 19th century democratic slave owners (sorry democratic-socialist revisionists, but the GOP was the anti-slavery party) didn't want their slaves to read and write for the same exact reasons -- literate, free thinking people get to "uppity" and start thinking for themselves and are too hard to control.
The global socialists and marxists have indeed had his agenda for a long, long time. Religion (belief in authority and ultimate rights from 'God') and education (free thought) must be controlled or eliminated because they are threats to statist mass population control, and this is what we are talking about. The socialists even have a name for their agenda, "Scientific Socialism". This just means totalitarian control using mass psychological techniques, from birth, to control populations. The jackboot police state experiment with guns in the 20th century was too cumbersome and ultimately didn't work.
On education, the USA spends more than any other country per student, except Luxembourg, with increasingly lower results. Why? The money is going to benefit the public teacher unions, which are increasingly marxist acivists. To wit, Randi Weingarten, head of the largest teachers union, is a radical with a marxist (and gay) agenda and is an Obama bundler.
Example where all the money really goes: Wisconsin taxpayers graciously allowed teachers to use any health insurance company they wanted, regardless of cost. So the union created their own health care insurance company catering to teachers and gouged the taxpayers with 50% higher rates, with the difference going to the unions so the leaders could gt rich and have more political power. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
Bill Ayers, marxist, Obama pal, and former domestic terrorist, spent his professional life advocating using the educational system for marxist indoctrination. Ayers even consulted with Hugo Chavez how to do marxist indocrination in the Venezuelan educational system, which formally and subsequently began two years ago -- to the screams and howls of the people.
Good news: US Government very own data and show that home schooled kids academically out perform all other groups. Home school > private schools > Charter schools > public schools.
Bad News: Globalists are increasingly using UN "mandates" as global "law" to force sovereign governments to ban homeschooling, even arresting parents for homeschooling and taking children away from their parents. This has begun in some countries in Africa, as reported on Drudge last year, in situations where the kids were perfecly fine and doing well academically and the parents were being hunted down for homeschooling. Examples of the same thing happening in Germany, where parents are forced to move to the USA to home school or go to jail.
"Marxism never sleeps.... so neither shall I." -- Soviet Gulag inmate.
Weird!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dude, you have no progressive clue! It's the George Soros socialist thing, comes out of the UN. It's about recruiting the kids. It is what the socialist "progressives" are doing here and elsewhere with the deliberate dumbing down.
The socialists even admit their agenda, it has been in writing since the 1992 Rio conference. The US signed on to by executive orders from Bush I, Clinton, Bush II and Obama is also, of course, on board and implementing. It is the global socialist agenda spelled out in a thick 40 chapter "Agenda 21" manual since 1992.
?Agenda 21 For Dummies? - YouTube
Regarding education: At about 6:30 it talks about Agenda 21 regarding education. The Agenda 21 globalists, from their own manual, states:
"....more educated people consume more resources, so they are not sustainable, or desireable, nor is it necessary for them to be good workers" and "Objective information isn't really knowable anyway, and is not really relevant to sustainability education," err, Huh? So apparently, they are not going to bother with mathemathics because it gets in the way of the recycling lessons, and might give kids the tools to figure out things like -- global warming is a big fraud.
This dumbing down been deliberate and it's now being implemented by the teachers unions.
Cuban-American woman tells what it was like to live in Cuba as a little girl under Castro:
"I was five years old in first grade, and everyday the teacher would tell us all to close our eyes and put our heads down on the desk.
She would then tell us to pray to God for a piece of candy. When she told us to look up, there would be no candy.
Then, the teacher would again tell us all to close our eyes and put our heads down, but this time she would say to pray to Fidel Castro for a piece of candy.
When she told us to look up, there would be a piece of candy on the desk.
That is what it was like to live in Cuba under Fidel Castro."
Teachers are behaving like super-capitalists. You are just like one of these propagandists that abhors taxation; but, on the other hand, spew venom at 47% of the poor that pay no taxes.
In this case you are saying that its ok for super-capitalists to steal everything and dumb down larger society to achieve this goal; but, when Marxists act like super-Capitalists they are what--Marxists?
Here's a six figure job in "education".
Restorative Justice Co-ordinator:
It's one of those Touchy Feely PC positions that used to be handled by a school principal.
"Restorative Approaches inspired by the philosophy and practices of restorative justice , which puts repairing harm done to relationships and people over and above the need for assigning blame and dispensing punishment.
Key values create an ethos of respect, inclusion, accountability and taking responsibility, commitment to relationships, impartiality, being non-judgemental, collaboration, empowerment and emotional articulacy.
Key skills include active listening, facilitating dialogue and problem-solving, listening to and expressing emotion and empowering others to take ownership of problems. Restorative Approaches and Practices diagram
Processes and practices include interventions when harm has happened, such as restorative enquiry (aka, in some circumstances , corridor conferences), mediation (aka mini-conferencing), community conferencing (aka group mediation and/or problem-solving circles). However there are also processes and practices that help to prevent harm and conflict occurring and which build a sense of belonging, safety and social responsibility. These include Circle Time and Restorative Pedagogy (teachers modelling the values and skills and creating opportunities for their development amongst the students whatever the subject being taught).
Weirder!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hold no brief for Public Education. I myself was home-schooled for a while, and although I can't home-school my own children, I consider it my responsibility to make sure they can think. What they can gain from school is mass-culture credentials, an understanding of the mental framework most people operate within, and practice in dealing with disagreeable people.
I know the history of Public Education in America. It's as bad as Iserbyt says.
Where I can't accept Iserbyt anymore is when she says it all stems from the Bavarian Illuminati, who surreptitiously took over the Freemasons, and who originated Skull and Bones. Reagan was actually a Communist, she says. And the Illuminati, working with the Communists, control everything.
I don't know Ms. Iserbyt personally. She's correct in observing that the inadequacies in American Public Education are structural and intentional, and serve to benefit the already-powerful. But everybody I do know who believes that Illuminati stuff (and I actually know a few) is full-blown batshit crazy.
Where does ZH dig up cunts like this guy JS Kim from? Never ceases to amaze me the number of weirdos you give column inches to on this site. Never in my life have I read such a load of idealogical clap-trap.
Yet another ad hominem argument.
Pretty sure you are proof the dumbing down is working. The malevolent marxis/socialist vaginas and their clap-trap ideology are the problem. Kim is merely pointing out, very accurately, what they are doing in plain sight.
-- Dumbing down education is part of the UN "Agenda 21" program which is spelled out in a written report/plan and is already being implemented. In Agenda 21 they repeat their plans to dumb down education, and the MSM is totally complicit in this. A-21 was done by a comittee of UN socialist, including a couple of Soros cronies, and is being forced upon us.
-- Goals of UN's Agenda 21: Dumb down the people so we'll be more compliant so that people can be moved off the land and into concentrated high rise 'human zones' with the ultimate goal of UN umbrella global socialist control and depopulation of the planet. They're essentially in the process of creating a real life "Logan's Run."
-- Don't be a straggler -- Google up Agenda 21 youtube. There is much there, including a short video which even shows their maps of the "human zones" and "human off-limit zones" and pretty much explains it all. And btw, those strictly enforced "Human off limit Zones" will include about 95% of the entire USA land mass -- which means they are talking about forced mass migrations to the coasts. Obama's funny obsession with those idiot high speed rail lines is because the rail system infrastructure is supposed to connect all those coastal "Human concentration Zones" that are already mapped out.
-- Question: if all US farmland is decreed off limits to humans and forced into going feral again, where will our food come from?? Well, the answer is that we won't need much food because they have no plans for that many people to be left. Problem solved... Get it?
-- The UN Agenda 21 advocates are already in many local/county governments and starting to regulate people out of their homes and off of their land. "Green Regulations", and such regulations, will be phased in and it will be increasingly impossible for existing structures to comply and they will be condemned and people will be forced to walk away from them -- already happening in California. New permits will not be issued and/or new homes will be too expensive to be build.
UN socialists openly admit they need us frogs to be dumbed way down so we won't know the water is beginning to boil until it is too late.
Ahhh, yes.....the "wonderful and sustainable" Agenda 21....ticket to global enslavement. This has been my area of deep research, and it is so silently pervasive in our country, it is horrifying!
Weirdest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Makes me laugh.
Laughable.
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-- Goals of UN's Agenda 21: Dumb down the people so we'll be more compliant so that people can be moved off the land and into concentrated high rise 'human zones' with the ultimate goal of UN umbrella global socialist control and depopulation of the planet. They're essentially in the process of creating a real life "Logan's Run."
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Dumbeddown people are more compliant?
Looking at the rich history of the US when it comes to moving people off their land, one sure thing rises: US citizens do not bother dumbing down people they want to move off their land. They know other (and this time effective) ways.
US citizens are so trapped in their world of propaganda. They cant move one inch out of it. Too much insecurity.
Never ? You should read more.
Education varies hugely. I got a good public school education-- admittedly, it didn't help me "question the system"-- that came later-- but was that really the school's fault, or was it society in general?
When I got to my well-respected but not elite university, it taught at a lower level than some of my high school classes. On the other hand, I've met high school grads out in the world who are barely literate and don't self-educate. Probably a crappy milleu, including public schools, encouraged them to have no intellectual curiosity.
The most useful math you learn in school IS memorization. It's called the times tables. Given the amount of useless math kids learn, why not teach them how to write? Most Americans, even the ones who can spell, can't write for beans.
"times table"? WTF is that?
You missed the point of the article, which is- we don't care about your opinion of your own education, because you are one of the sheep who bought into the system.
Excellent article, nice to see someone try to expand the thinking of others.
Multiplication tables...... Sheesh....
On what basis are you calling me a sheep? Because I "bought into the system" as a child by going to public school? Yeah, I guess I should have run away at age 8 and become a brilliant day trader or whatever the hell you are.
I was defending public education, which is in no way irrelevant to the article.
They teach "times tables" in private schools now?
Sign me up.....
Wow, I said "times" instead of "multiplication".
You people are 2 bit pedants.
Excellent read and thank you Zero Hedge for posting these articles.
At one point I objected because there was too much memory work, and math is reasoning; not memory. Dr. Ziegler turned to me and said, ‘Nelson, wake up! That is what we want… a math that the pupils cannot apply to life situations when they get out of school!
+1000000 on this.
The math skills of the populace in general are awful. Public education, and really the "outsourcing" of problem solving by computers and calculators contributes to this. With a population that can't under basic mathematic principles in how they relate to LIFE, they become dumb to how their getting a red, white, and blue dildo jammed up their ass everytime they buy something, or get taxed, or their wages don't keep up with inflation.
The math taught today, even in charter schools, is meant for one thing: to prepare individuals to process financial reasoning. That is why Algebra is pushed so hard; it can be most applied to the daily workings of banks and stocks on Wall Street. But math can be used to explain a GREAT deal more, and even used to debunk the very theories that got us in this mess, today.
Poker has helped me a ton relate math to situational problem solving, and moreso that just what odds am I getting to call. The math in poker, if analyzed correctly, can assist one in recognizing RISK before it happens. Very few people are taught "risk of ruin" or "prisioner's dilemma" in high school for a reason - they are totally opposite theories of the central planning agenda neo-liberals and neo-cons love to push on the people.
It's a shame, because Public Education has a TON of potential to succeed. I went to a charter school, which hurt my chances of getting college scholarships (despite aving 3.9 GPA), but I also had classes that public students DON'T have: Music, Drama, Psychology, and (god forbid!) foreign languages (I took Spanish). It helped me want to keep reading, keep learning, and try things outside the norm of what the usual debt serf is trained to be.
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The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda -- a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.
-- H.L. Mencken
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
-- Bertrand Russell
A general State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly like one another: and the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government.
-- John Stuart Mill
Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mundane educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom, go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts.
-- Frank Zappa
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
-- Isaac Asimov
Education by the State is a contradiction in terms. Intellectual development is only possible to those who have seen through society.
-- Celia Green
Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
-- Baruch Spinoza
Truly impressive collection of ideological claptrap on display here....
I wondered why girls were always the class valedictorians and got all the high grades. For most of the core classes taught in our public education system here in Southern California grades are based on: class participation, cooperation, turning in assignments on time, teamwork, and ability to follow instructions. Almost no weight is given to learning the material. Sam principles in the local university. This explains a lot of the job interviews we have conducted where 4.0+ GPA students cannot answer the simplest questions. We interviewed the class valedictorian graduating engineer from CalTech what a filter was. He said it was for water or coffee. Are we training a generation of managers or what?
I wonder the same thing too. Check out Gatto, you'll soon learn why this is going on. Basically, education is designed to keep us as "obedient workers" as George Carlin observed. Plus, we all must be addicted to personal consumption of useless items...thats the only way to keep the economy growing.
Yes. Unfortunately, there are some field where people's education is put to use every day, like engineering, which requires a strong math background. With the financial fucks now in control of the world, math is their enemy, and so is every profession that relies on it, yuo have been warned.
Every day is a day a wonder and discovery when you know how to think.
Props to all those who paid attention and disciplined themselves so that they could create.
...what was the point of my mathematical "progress" back then? Yes, it enabled me to score a perfect score on the math portion of the SATs and then gain entrance into an Ivy League university. However, in retrospect and in complete absurdity, I cannot think of one instance since my educational career ended that I have ever applied, in real life, anything that I learned during my years of mathematical schooling.
And whose fault is that? Christ, you're good at math and you got into a good university. If you can't figure out how to spin that into a convertible and a blonde (or whatever else floats your boat) that's your problem.
It almost doesn't matter what the "dark intentions of public schooling" are. The dark reality is that it's now primarily a jobs program for adults.
The other dark reality is that pretending that all kids are born with equal academic potential isn't doing anyone any favors and it skews the curriculum to the lowest common denominator for the most part.
Look, the program goes like this;
1st You get dazzled by all the cool things you need to be cool and get laid or land whatever means to provide said cool shit.
2nd You hook up and have kids. But the kids need cool shit too, so the both of yous get a job in order to afford the cool shit.
3rd Kids need to be babysat so off they go to school to continue indoctrination into cool shit.
4th Parents might notice something aint right but are exhausted from working harder for less to get more cool shit.
5th Repeat ( while slowly being led to slaughter)
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Yeah, those eeevil socialists... damn, I'm even seeing them on the soup! That's why our good friends at Texas changed the school curriculum to reflect true American values! Yeah, take that Marx:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/education/13texas.html
And what of Atlanta Ga.?
At least they don't "teach them" to be felons in Texas ;-)
"The voluminous report names 178 educators, including 38 principals, as participants in cheating. More than 80 confessed. The investigators said they confirmed cheating in 44 of 56 schools they examined.
The investigators conducted more than 2,100 interviews and examined more than 800,000 documents in what is likely the most wide-ranging investigation into test-cheating in a public school district ever conducted in United States history.
The findings fly in the face of years of denials from Atlanta administrators. The investigators re-examined the state’s erasure analysis — which they said proved to be valid and reliable — and sought to lay to rest district leaders’ numerous excuses for the suspicious scores."
http://www.ajc.com/news/investigation-into-aps-cheating-1001375.html
Earlier in the week I was looking at GA school rankings from 2007, ones that offer a statistic on percentage of students below the poverty line along with the percentage of students exceeding median testing standards. Many Atlanta schools had a 100% poverty rate concurrent with a 70% exceeding standards rate. But when one plots all poverty percent vs exceeding standards percent for all schools, Atlanta schools were the only 4-5 standard deviation outliers.
A families poverty level should have no impact on the quality of a public school education, as they are not taught at home.
I also believe you and I will never live to see the day where the bureaucrat steps from behind his desk and declares we have enough money ;-)
The Atlanta district school budget exceeds the mayors general budget, so I don't think funding is the problem there. Its no different anywhere else really, at the local level. Roughly half of total general revenues (printed from thin air or taxation) go toward "education".
One would think, with the amounts spent, the value of the public education recieved would justify it. There should be little use for the high rates of remedial courses before entrance into college...if they were properly educated in high school.
It has nothing to do with the melanin in someones skin or money.
The problem is its structure and the culture that has sprung up within & around it. And to some extent what Gully points out...parents allowing it, simply washing their hands of the shaping of their own childs mind.
Giving it away to a complete stranger.
Poor people tend to live on poor neighborhoods with poor overcrowded schools. Yes, families poverty level HAS an impact on the education their children receive.
Again, the Atlanta school district (among others) is given more for their schools than anything else in their budget.
This year it will be over a half billion dollars!!!
So, by your logic, the city should just give it to the parents in poverty or what? You thinkin if the kids have a new pair of DC's and the parents have a new ride its gonna teach the kids what?...to expect a handout?
The teachers, principles and administrators in Atlanta were caught running a criminal enterprise for profit (meaning, their bonuses, raises & pensions) at the long term expense of the kids and society at large.
And your answer is, the continuation of LBJ's war on poverty?...we already lost that one, according to you right here...lol.
What the hell are you talking about? Did I ever mention any suggestion or anytihng? I just stated something that should be obvious: poor people tend to live in poor neighborhoods. Poor neighborhoods tend to have crappy basic services, including education (as in underfunded and overcrowded schools). Might not be a pattern that exists in all cases, but damn, most are.
All the cheating is inevitable and only to be expected when the standardized test industry is allowed to determine the flow of money. "Learning" and "Education" have nothing to do with any part of that racket.