Dumbing Down The World

FEE ^ | January 27, 2015 | Mike Reid

[OddLane]

Public education has been a slowly degenerating disaster throughout the West, and now it seems we’re exporting it to the rest.

At a United Nations meeting 15 years ago, the world’s governments agreed on the goal of enrolling every child on the planet in primary schooling by this year.

Indeed, they have nearly succeeded, with 2014’s reports indicating that 90 percent of children in developing regions now attend primary school. Presumably, the numbers for developed countries are above 95 percent. But strangely, this lofty plan did not say anything about the quality of the schooling into which we have now driven more than 9 out of every 10 human children; the whole idea is to get children into government-approved classrooms, apparently regardless of what happens there.

[spintreebob]

Of 3+ billion on the planet, 1+ billion are Muslim. What percentage of Muslims can read a daily newspaper from Cairo, Mbai, Jakarta or anywhere between?

What percentage of Jews can read a newspaper?
What percentage of nominal Christians? practicing Christians? Aetheists? Hindus? Bhuddists? Others?

[Clintonfatigued]

I’m back and here’s something the homeschool ping list will be interested in.

[Tired of Taxes]

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[Tired of Taxes]

Welcome back. Hope all is well!

[Organic Panic]

All to promote the religion of environmentalism with government as savior.