Posted on 10/20/2021 3:19:13 PM PDT by Rummyfan
In the last several years, Americans have been sensing that something is seriously wrong with the current crop of young people. True, they are likely to have the most education credentials any generation has ever received. They also are technically-savvy, and as such, have a wealth of knowledge at their fingertips.
But in spite of these factors, today’s students seem to exhibit a character that is high in sensitivity and low in knowledge. What gives? Why are our students turning out like this?
Camille Paglia recently revealed the answer to that question. Paglia, a long-time Democrat, feminist, and college professor, believes the problem started in the earliest stages of education in the nation’s public schools:
“It’s really started at the level of public school education. I’ve been teaching now for 46 years as a classroom teacher, and I have felt the slow devolution of the quality of public school education in the classroom.”
According to Paglia, teachers at elite institutions are unable to see this decline in knowledge because their students often come from private schools and wealthy homes, which presumably still retain some elements of rigorous education. The great majority of students, however, can be described in the following way:
“What has happened is these young people now getting to college have no sense of history – of any kind! No sense of history. No world geography. No sense of the violence and the barbarities of history. So, they think that the whole world has always been like this, a kind of nice, comfortable world where you can go to the store and get orange juice and milk....
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She doesn’t pull punches, she speaks the truth, doesn’t pander, & is therefore dismissed by other academics as irrelevant. She is brilliant.
And everyone thought it was people from CA making their states turn blue, when the ugly reality says it’s their own schools who are producing hundreds of thousands of newly minted young liberal voters every single year.
Yes, homeschooling is good for individual children, but when the country and society collapses, they will go down into oblivion with it.
Probably one of the reasons we need/get so many employees from other countries, they know what it’s like to live in a tuff situation and are therefor willing to work hard whereas kids brought up in American schools are “entitled”.
Yet she remains a Democrat. She apparently has her won learning issues.
“ they have also been taught not to bully a person on the basis of their race, class, gender, or any other trait.”
Ok…If she says so …
What do you think people did before the current public school system was put in place in the early 1900’s?
Where did all the brilliant men and women who created the foundation of our science, math, art, and literature come from then?
It seems to me that there were more men and women of genius then than there are today.
“It seems to me that there were more men and women of genius then than there are today.”
True, but the few hundreds of thousands of possibly good students will not be enough to stave off societal collapse caused by the weight of uneducated and drugged zombies razing the countryside.
Also, you must not be acquainted with the post-humanist thought being promoted by our betters. They don’t think they need humans anymore. They say this is the last non-designed generation.
There a lot of wisdom in your statement.
She’s right. They are ignorant of history and, I would add, human nature.
I’ve been preaching that since I joined FR.
Unless you’re white.
Ya, but it’s so much easier to blame the leftist states.☺
Camille Paglia has always been a liberal I respected.
Leftists targeted education from the 1960’s on.
Coupled with the Ministry of Propaganda weaving their “narrative” into everything from news to entertainment they have brain-washed millions.
Taught them to hate their own country.
“It seems to me that there were more men and women of genius then than there are today.”
There are MORE than ever.
Unfortunately, not many are actually produced in this country.
The books were 25 chapters long and written at an 6th grade vocabulary level.
In the 1960s they were re-written. With 20 chapters and at a third grade vocabulary level. So that the "youth of today" would be able to read them.
American Education has been on a down slope for some time.
It is no coincidence that "Why Johnny Can't Read" was written in 1955.
But hey, keep sending your kids to public schools.
Free babysitting rocks!
And their forced sexual assaults err... education is second to none.
The concession to call them public schools instead of the correct term, government schools, was a clue that a disaster was imminent.
It started during the Vietnam War. Protestors “won” when we abandoned Vietnam and, unknown to many, an estimated one million died.
That “success” set a course for many including education. The difference from the Great Generation as teachers and those that followed are why we see the results today.
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