Peterson and Lahn discuss some of the reasons that many of us have homeschooled.
Your children are schooled to be factory workers, but they closed all the factories. So they changed the education to school your children to be angsty social justice warriors.
Public schools are moron, atheist, transgender, communist factories. Homeschool your children
Lately, children are being schooled to be prey for homosexuals and other assorted perverts.
Not a good thing in education.
Factory workers? So now they are going to ship our children to Cbina?
Who said “I don’t want a nation of thinkers. I want a nation of workers.”?
That’s right, 120 years ago, John D. Rockefeller. Created the General Education Board, and poured millions (billions in 2023 fiat) into creating an education system to do just that.
I haven’t watched the video yet, but in true FR tradition will comment anyway (grin). Just from the notes on the video and previous replies on this thread, it sounds like some this may be in line with what the late great John Taylor Gatto wrote about our educational system:
https://johntaylorgatto.com/blog/
Anyone interested in the subject who has not already checked out his books and articles may want to do so.
“the origins of the American school system as a means to create obedient factory workers”
This isn’t really news. I recall reading this when I was in high school in the mid 1970’s.
I guess the problem is that there are very few mundane factory jobs left. They are either higher tech now—due to the computerization of the workplace. Or they are floor sweeping drones who need very little training. The “in between” jobs have been shipped to China, Vietnam, or India.
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They no longer need factory workers, but they found a new use for obedient zombies.