Posted on 02/26/2024 1:26:23 PM PST by Rummyfan
“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind,” said Winston Churchill. And judging by the state of education in America, it seems both of those empires could soon crumble. The dysfunction is evident from top to bottom: from Ivy League outposts down to the secondary schools. Both are producing a generation that is ill-informed, illiterate and innumerate. In other words, a generation increasingly ill-suited to function as productive citizens in a democracy.
One might expect, then, that the creation of a raft of new universities and schools focused on doing something different would seem like a fundamental necessity. After all, young people are deserting college in droves, with enrolments down by 15% over the past decade; in the lower grades, it’s common to hear talk of “zombie schools”, the product of more than 20% of pupils being “chronically absent”.
And yet, the emergence of these still-small shoots have terrified the educratic establishment. Some claim the shift in emphasis towards classics and civics, now occurring in places such as Florida’s New College, is “sinister development” by nefarious Right-wingers. Similarly, the teachers’ unions have resisted a number of moves to create charter schools — which increase choice in the public system — because they are part of a “war on schools”.
In some cases, the defence of failure is breathtaking. Blue states such as Illinois have worked to all but eliminate charters, even as the Land of Lincoln boasts 53 schools where not one student can do grade-level math and 30 where none can do so in English. These schools are overwhelmingly in Chicago, where a significant increase in spending per student since 2019 seems to have made no impact.
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It’s amazing. The Greatest Generation and the Silent Generation had a very large portion of the population which didn’t even have a high school education, and yet, they were MILES smarter than today’s 25-and-unders.
BTTT
So true.
Close the public schools.
They do far more harm than good.
Becoming?
Blame TV cartoons and sit-coms. gilligan, shaggy from Scooby doo , george cosanza, al bundy. idiots are the stars of sit-coms and kids are emulating their heros. not to mention, bullies tend to hate big mouthed smart kids. and teachers have had to lower their expectations do to parents being unset their little einsteins are earning D’s. Partially blame carters DEpt of Ed. the US has been going down hill since 1979. even before when they outlawed paddling in schools.
It is all caused by institutional capture by the Left and their willingness to do what it takes to gain and maintain power.
They don’t care if the society is crumbling and decayed, as long as they are in charge.
Because they had the benefit of a school system not yet hijacked by socialists.
The schools are now a sewer whose only purpose is to mideducate and indoctrinate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31nRwB7yh2g
30 m 13 s
How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom
The Indoctrinated Brain By Michael Nehls
https://michael-nehls.com/the-indoctrinated-brain/
The Indoctrinated Brain introduces a largely unknown, powerful neurobiological mechanism whose externally induced dysfunction underlies these catastrophic developments.
PD Dr. Michael Nehls, medical doctor and internationally renowned molecular geneticist, lays out a shattering chain of circumstantial evidence indicating that behind these numerous negative influences lies a targeted, masterfully executed attack on our individuality. He points out how the raging wars against viruses, climate change, or over national borders are—more likely intended than not—fundamentally providing the platform for such an offensive against the human brain that is steadily changing our being and is aimed at depriving us of our ability to think for ourselves.
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short answer imho...
its the 3 part bioweapon
of the covid
and vax ,
and the shedded virus.
No critical thinking.
We now have Gemini AI to fill our heads with disinformation to accelerate the stupity process. Although I outsmarted it today to get around its disinformation stean engine by asking the question in just the right subtle and indirect way to try to get them to own up to the American Preident who most resembled the father of fascism.
I struck gold with this checkmate query:
Which American president enacted policies Mussolini also enacted?
It’s fair to say there were some similarities in approach between Benito Mussolini’s Italy and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs during the Great Depression. Here’s a breakdown:blah,blah blah...
Public education oops I mean indoctrination system.
by-product of letting the insane run the asylum.
(Why are Americans becoming more stupid?)
Rap “music”?
Drugs?
Abandoning church?
Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama?
Von Pantsuit’s perpetual prevarications?
Simple, you are no longer allowed to “call out” people who are stupid, so there is no deterrent.
For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe what is false.
They’re drinking the Kool Aid (prozac).
(Pantsuit’s perpetual prevarications)
What ARE the three “P’s”??
It’s all due to having the “equal right” movement devolve into an egalitarian movement. Every year it becomes more radical. People are absolutely equal in all things at all times except in sports. We allow a meritocracy in sports. If they’re not equal we will force it to be so. Kurt Vonnegut’s short story & Ayn Rand’s novella both very prophetic! All aided and abetted by an oversupply of lawyers plus politicianswho can make hay off the envy!
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