Posted on 07/23/2016 2:38:19 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
It's a joke widely told.
This guy goes into a hotel restaurant and instructs the waitress: "Please bring me one tiny glass of frozen orange juice diluted until you can see through it. Two cold and burned pieces of toast. One infinitesimal and frozen pat of butter. Scrambled eggs that look like they were cooked the day before yesterday. And one piece of bacon cooked so long that, when you try to cut it, it splits into 37 different pieces."
"Hey, what is this?" the waitress complains. "We can't make you a breakfast like that."
"The heck you can't," says the customer. "That's exactly what you served me yesterday."
For education, you would need to change the items a little. How about this:
A father goes to his neighborhood school and tells the principal, "Please organize this school so that my kids won't learn to read and they hate books. Make sure they can't possibly do any elementary arithmetic because, for one thing, they were instructed not to memorize the multiplication tables. Then make sure they don't know any basic geography, not even names of the oceans and continents. Next, be extra careful not to fill up their minds with any historical information, to the extent they don't know what the American Revolution was about or when it occurred. On top of all that, train them to be sloppy, vague, imprecise, and generally half-baked in all aspects of life."
The principal is stunned and exclaims, "We couldn't do that to your kids."
"The heck you can't," the father says. "That's exactly what you've been doing to my kids for years."
Educationally speaking, K-12 has figured out how to do burnt toast, congealed oatmeal, cold eggs, rotten fruit, and bitter coffee at an exquisite level.
Somehow, our Education Establishment keeps finding the sort of Stalinist technocrats that can consciously set out to make bad schools, and do a great job.
The announced goal is education, but the actual process is more like non-education, de-education, or sub-education, whereby the kids end up worse off than they started. If you let them run loose in the woods every day, they would probably learn more.
We will not be able to reform our public schools if we don't first understand exactly the nature of the problem. That problem can be simply explained. We have an Education Establishment that is more interested in social engineering than in traditional education.
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For further discussion of this phenomenon (often called "the deliberate dumbing down of America"), see "Killing Knowledge in K-12." http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/03/killing_knowledge_in_k12.html
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Nothing to disagree with here...
When Jesse Waters interviews college students, and they don’t know anything about Washington or Lincoln (or anything about the Civil War of WWII), I am slack-jawed with disbelief. These are questions I knew the answers to in elementary school. These people shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
Washington or Lincoln
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Washington, that would be washing, or getting the dirt off.
That would make you white. A No No
Lincoln, Is that like linked-in, social media ‘stuff’? That the white privileged folks do?
Great schools are easily found if you don't live in a shit hole.
No, they make those little logs that kids use to build things. /s
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