This is a crisis we'd better get a handle on before it's too late -- if it isn't already! Posted on 04/24/2018 3:08:54 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
Lots of people who study K-12 education end up looking for a metaphor, a parallel, to explain the unnecessary stupidity of our public schools. Don't bother. Ayn Rand has run ahead and done the job.
In 1970, Rand published a long [17k words] essay titled "The Comprachicos" (which roughly translates to the child-buyers). It lovingly examines a bit of history mentioned in a Victor Hugo novel. He wrote about vicious exploiters who mutilate and transform children into all sorts of freaks, dwarfs, gymnasts, and novelties. The techniques are analogous to those used by bonsai masters. You cut, twist, break, deprive – you do whatever works to make a glorious anomaly.
Finding this history, Rand must have shouted, "Eureka." She perceived that Progressive educators are the comprachicos of our time:
"The production of monsters – helpless, twisted monsters whose normal development has been stunted – goes on all around us. But the modern heirs of the comprachicos are smarter and subtler. They do not hide, they practice their trade in the open, the results are invisible. In the past this horrible surgery left traces on a child's face, not in his mind. Today it leaves traces in his mind, not on his face. In both cases the child is not aware of the mutilation he has suffered. Today's comprachicos do not use narcotic powders. They take a child before he is fully aware of reality and never let him develop that awareness. Where nature put a normal brain, they put mental retardation."
I'm no Rand fan, but I have to acknowledge that she is super-smart. Her mind is startling; it's like watching someone pick up the silverware at dinner and juggle it....
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This article prompted Kerry Lutz to invite me on his radio and podcast show, Financial Survival Network. http://financialsurvivalnetwork.com/2018/04/bruce-deitrick-price-how-our-schools-create-monsters/
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Lucky for us the o’bamskee clan put an end to bullying once and for all. Oh, never mind. Another fail on their part.
No Dads
No Discipline
Lots of Drugs (Adhd meds; anti depressants)
No Fresh Air (no socialization)
No Purpose (kids not doing chores, vegging in front of screens)
Sprinkle in Public School Hate America Campaign
Congrats on your new sociopath!
They kick God out of school. They teach children that they came from apes. They feign surprise when those children treat each other like animals, picking on the weak ones. They squash any idea of individuals overcoming adversity, stressing the action of government alone to solve problems. They hold out no hope and fake tears when the suicide of children reaches epidemic proportions.
This is how an immoral society dies.
Many people homeschool to incorporate robust religious and moral training.
Many homeschool to inspire higher standards of learning.
Many homeschool in order to provide a richer, more personal, more joyful, more fulfilling homelife for their child.
But one other reason appealed to a degree equal to the first three, and this is:
The raising of a child as a free human being.
Boys in dresses and no more needs to be said
This is a crisis we'd better get a handle on before it's too late -- if it isn't already! C.S.Lewis was earlier still with The Abolition of Man
Progressive education, where twisted to serve Cultural Marxism, produces a hybrid trousered apes (from the Abolition of Man) and Pilgrim’s Regress savage dwarves. The red dwarves in particular. It has done so within a “culture” increasingly able to muster little more moral clarity, artistic merit or chastity than the Cleavers of Pilgrim’s Regress.
The Left is focused on the success of the “other” and the failure of the “we”, purveyors of cultural, national and even civilizational suicide. Cultural Marxism can produce nothing else. They have filled the land with innocent blood.
There is a reason why scum like Bill Ayers went into teaching teachers. Every individual whose degree he signed off on should be forbidden to go anywhere near a classroom. Same with those his desciples taught.
40+ yrs this abomination has been in existence.
40+ yrs the abolishment has been a plank in the (R)N(C) platform.
40+ yrs the (R)N(C) has supported, financed, enhanced and expanded the same DoEd.
40+ yrs the insane party electorate continue to pull the same lever(s)...expecting different results.
Don’t tell me the (D) has cornered the market on plantations
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Formal systems that feed on people are everywhere, and they all create monsters.
Thanks for the suggestion. The Abolition of Man Is now on my list.
The thing that makes Ayn Rand’s essay unique is that she is not espousing educational philosophy, which many people do, including her.
She is deconstructing and destroying somebody else’s educational philosophy. She shows there is nothing accidental or benign in Progressive education. It is lethal at its core, and intentionally so.
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