Empowering States to Revolutionize AND Modernize Education [vanity]

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

The overall concept is simple -- true freedom for the states to revolutionize AND modernize education, but the technical change is very simple: hobble the federal government with minimal, super-majority oversight in enumerated ways [mainly or perhaps only to prevent islamo-terror recruitment and allay fears of racism].

This would require a constitutional amendment unless one resorts to the widened Commerce Clause and fight it out with the teachers' union in the courts. Either way, when people get excited enough? It's achieved.

And how excited parents will be!

Just imagine if parents could be in control of their childrens' school environment? We don't need to cram them like sardines in a gutter-mouthed environment that devolves them to animalistic behavior. Each environment would compete to RAISE standards on student behavior, religious environments being among the competitors.

And imagine parents choosing from all 50 states which teacher-pool can assist their children via web-conferencing? Supply-and-demand injected into the teacher pool, where some kid from backwoods Alaska or Nowhere Island in Hawaii might get to talk with the best teacher in all the USA [or at least be on the list for available matching]. And the teacher might be on a vacation at the time anywhere on earth with wireless internet access. It would require busting the teachers' unions, but it would make life wonderful for teachers who can really teach.

And imagine education that motivates children interactively [aka computer games] based on their interests. A single state or business could not possibly pay corporations what the nation could as a whole through a voucher system so that a software corporation could compete in a huge school market. And churches could help fund software companies to compete as well.

And imagine churches allowed to compete alongside with the states -- complete religious freedom [so long as it doesn't recruit islamo-terror or Reonquista].

And imagine students being taught controversial lessons through fair debates [no moderator, just a timer].

I might not be someone a politician or talk-radio host wants to get 'close' to. But I would care less if someone calls me a kook so long as he or she seriously considers these ideas.

Small price to pay. Let's make America greater than ever!

Potential specifics of this idea will be linked to momentarily.

[Jim Noble]

Here’s the problem, as I see it.

People believe that “education” is something that is given to you or done to you, like a shot of penicillin. As a corollary, they believe if the right education is administered in the right dose for the right duration, that everybody will go to college and become rich.

So, the design of the program is to prepare the students for college.

Unfortunately, actual success (traditionally measured) at an actual college (real curriculum and real grades) requires an IQ of about 115. This is about 16% of white high school students.

So, the design (prepare 100% for college, as opposed to 16%) has failure baked in. This leads to constant bickering about the CAUSES of failure, without examining the PREMISES.

And it also leads to waves of corrective efforts. At the simplest level, making up the grades (promoting everyone, graduating everyone) is the path of least resistance. Higher levels of income correlate with higher levels of fantasy, so we have $200 million high schools with wet DNA labs where no one knows how to think (the West LA-Scarsdale-Newton MA cargo cult).

Multiculti of course makes everything much worse, with much more lying and much higher fantasy levels to support.

Education needs LESS attention, not more. Because education is something you DO, it’s not something that gets done to you. A Quonset hut with some books and a wise teacher can educate everyone who is able, beyond a doubt.

My grandmother (PBUH) taught in NYC Public for 50 years. She was so good, and so beloved, that she had students from 70 years ago at her funeral.

Her answer about the ones who didn’t get educated? “Somebody has to clean the subways”.

She was one smart cookie.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

You bring up excellent ‘process’ problems. Yes, the college acceptance system is a powerful driving factor. And that also needs temporary reform.

More fundamentally, if all professors are required to debate once a year as sheduled by a rep of the state legislators or governors [collective decision], then parents can see what kind of person that professor is before funding their childrens’ educations.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

What I mean by ‘temporary reform’ is that we can allow certain amendments to automatically sunset after a certain time. We can hope that colleges get straightened up after a while.

Or ... we can count on internet colleges to compete with standard brick-and-mortar universities. Let them rot and get federal money out of higher learning.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Colleges currently monopolize licensing. If state governments and the federal government loosens licensing, such as therapist, etc, with less reliance on college degrees, then the race is on.

I have not formulated a solid plan yet about college entrance ‘reform’ or ‘deregulation’.

But the problem is ‘process’ compared to visualizing what modern education should now look like.

[Jim Noble]

then parents can see what kind of person that professor is before funding their childrens’ educations

Private college education is a luxury consumer good, and follows the same rules as Rolexes and yachts.

Most college education is funded by the government, either directly or via the various loan scams.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

‘Private college education is a luxury consumer good...’

And as a practical matter — most professors are sophist parrots of propadanda that undermines constitutional originalism and patriotism. The more we expose them, the better off our nation is.

[archy]

We could educate children for a fraction of what it costs to warehouse them in the so-called education establishment.

But then they wouldn't be as easily conditioned to obey the armed guards, and go where they're supposed to be when the bell rings.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

The political reality is this:

Government funding of education is not going away, not until those young skulls full of mush are educated enough to value freedom more.

Vicious cycle. We keep losing. And when public outrage against DC fades, we lose our chance.

So? We need to give households the freedom to have it spent for their childrens’ education as much as possible.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

A very smart legal scholar criticised me for seeking ‘top down’ changes.

But top-down change is the only fast way to resolve problems with any genuine change.

It’s an end run that bypasses progressive indoctrination.

That’s why I keep pushing for amendments —it’s like the Roman people calling for Assembly to remind the Roman Senate who the real boss is.

Similar to what MacArthur [and others] said about island hopping —”Hit ‘em where they ‘aint and let’m wither on the vine.”