[berdie]

The next to the last paragraph pretty well covers what schools should be about.

How we save schools from a liberal and political agenda is what baffles me. Not everyone can afford private school or to home teach. But the public schools are supported by tax dollars and should teach what they are intended to. Not propaganda.

[Talisker]

...is all the failure in our schools happening by incompetence or intent?

How about the intentional hiring of the incompetent?

No instructions needed - just tell the teachers and administrators to go out there and be themselves.

[Fiddlstix]

BEARS REPEATING

H. L Mencken famously proclaimed: “Th[e] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.” And that was in 1924!

Mencken describes what he had concluded is the real “aim of public education.” It’s low and ignoble, which brings us to the eternal question: is all the failure in our schools happening by incompetence or intent? One has to suspect intent because, starting around 1905, John Dewey and his progressives laid out a blueprint for dumbing down the schools as a way to turn the US into a socialist country.

[Vermont Lt]

Public schools are designed to provide a basic education necessary to operate machinery in the local mills and factories.

Guess what?

There are NO local mills and factories any more. The education of the modern jobs can’t be done by the teachers we have. Nor, is every person “capable” of learning and applying that education.

[Jan_Sobieski]

The reason for Public Schooling...

[RKBA Democrat]

Simpler solution: shut the government schools down. Education is too important to be left to the state.

[43north]

Today’s publik skewls are designed to produce Facebook and Twitter warriors with no critical thinking skills who are completely interchangeable with any of the characters in the movie Idiocracy.

[jonathonandjennifer]

I have never understood why so many people say that kids need preschool to teach them the things that they need for elementary school. If a parent can’t teach a three or four year old their alphabet and numbers then they need someone to take care of them.

[maddogtiger]

only vouchers can remedy the abomination of government schools

[PGalt]

Great post. Thanks.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism…

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture—education…

http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm

[jonathonandjennifer]

In school ,in the fifties and sixties, I was taught that the pilgrims gave thanks to the Indians for all their help,and that that was the first Thanksgiving.

[ForYourChildren]

Get YOUR children out of the government indoctrination centers - NOW!