Posted on 05/18/2015 5:19:51 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
More and more, I see that this is the essential question.
There are definitely people at the top of this society working together so that the average person is kept illiterate and ignorant. Why?
Obama talks about students being made career-ready and college-ready. This is laughable. We have millions of students who are being made welfare-ready. The statistics show that half the kids in eighth grade are not reading at a "proficient" level. In other words, they can read a McDonald's menu and that's about it.
Ask yourself the obvious question. If the school system were serious about educating children, wouldn't the school system do a much better job?
I think it's obvious that the school system is designed to do a bad job. John Dewey set this plan in motion a century ago. Everything is proceeding as he wished, except slower. But would this plan be carried out at all if the wealthy elite at the top were not signed on?
This is where it gets murky. We understand that the Socialists and Communists want people to be dumbed down so they will accept a more totalitarian society. But why do the super-rich want people to be poorly educated?
Seriously, let's encourage this discussion among all you people out there with $100 million or more. At your next soirée, everyone should have a few extra drinks and honestly answer this question: "Do you feel safer knowing that the average guy on the street is becoming dumb and dumber?"
As part of this discussion, answer the question of who is going to build all the fancy devices you have in your house? Who is going to fix your sports car and home entertainment system? Who is going to make sure that the planes operate properly and don't fall out of the sky??
Personally, I would feel much safer knowing that everybody in the society was educated to the utmost. An attitude like mine has given us a fantastic economy for the last 200 years. Some people were very smart, but everybody was smart enough.
And here is the huge irony. All the products in the stores are getting more complicated. Finally, even smart people are overwhelmed by learning to operate lots of complex machines. But what if you're not a smart guy? What if you've gone to a public school that would hardly bother to teach you to read? A school that stunted your mathematical ability by throwing you into the swamp known as Common Core Math? What chance do you have?
Things are getting out of control. We are slipping into freefall. My advice to all you people with $100 million or more is to think this over. Maybe you should stop supporting a school system that is designed to make your fellow citizens stupid.
For sure, you are not thereby made safer. You are threatened by every country with enough sense to educate their citizens properly. Here is a scary thought: maybe our rich are also getting dumb and dumber. They're so dumb they don't know they'd be better off if we took education seriously and made our public schools the best they can be.
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The current system is not only creating the ignorant. Oakland school district recently dropped any discipline in the form of consequences for disrespectful, disruptive and inattentive behavior. None of these students will be employable if they don’t learn basic self discipline and workplace ready behavior. Then they wonder why they can’t get a job...
That public schools, at best, could be any good, is not a premise everyone can accept. Personally I think they are part of the problem.
It's like saying Americans would be healthier if welfare food was the best it could be.
The more in power people become the more the people in power want powerless drones more than powerful peers.
Advantages to ‘the rich’ of poorly educated, and/or mis-educated, people:
1. They make gullible customers that can be over-charged.
2. They vote for politicians who subsidize ‘the rich’.
3. They can’t compete, so ‘the rich’ can behave stupidly without consequence.
A lot of rich people are dumb. They may be “talented” in a given area that has allowed them to make money, but when it comes to other things (such as support for maintaining civilization via opposing leftism), they are extraordinarily stupid and naïve.
Then there is another group of rich people who just are not paying attention. This is the larger group. They are interested in their own lives and their own businesses. If it does not happen inside their little sphere they do not notice it.
Then there are those who realize what is going on and are trying to find some way to change it. These are the people who are either ignored, slapped in the face or vilified.
Fortunately, we have Asian Americans who are bright and well-educated, many whites and quite few hispanics who are bright and educate themselves.
The handbasket from Hell, in which our precious country will soon take its final ride, approaches closer and closer.
Prepare NOW!
They are already surplus and disposable via abortion. That was the main driver of the abortion movement beginning, and is still one of the drivers.
Don’t dopes feel better in the company of other dopes?
The rich are a representative part of “most people.”
Look how many bought into anthropomorphic global warming, and cannot name nor describe any competing climate theory.
Which of the Republican candidates will AGGRESSIVELY move to END government schools?
When the truth is, the percentage of morons is increasing exponentially, and these morons are not capable of learning. Most of them register as retarded when tested (which they use as an excuse when they get convicted of murder)
If they’re so rich, why aren’t they smart? Here’s a very entertaining classic short story that’s well worth reading.
The Marching Morons
By C. M. Kornbluth
http://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/kornbluthcm-marchingmorons/kornbluthcm-marchingmorons-00-e.html
It’s called “IDIOCRACY”. Drink BRAWNDO, IT’S GOT ELECTROLITES, IT’S WHAT PLANTS CRAVE. just ask EL PRESIDENTE MACHO COMACHO EL SUPREMO DEBARKO OBASTARDO.
He likes MONEY.
He is a perfect example of where the country is going, Affirmative Action Idiot Welfare Case.
I didn’t finish the story but I did go to Wikipedia and meet a fascinating guy named Kornbluth.
Serendipity at its best.
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