The Educations System Is The Problem

f asked for the most pressing issue facing Canadians, the answers from the political right vary considerably. Some of the primary issues given include topics such as terrorism, immigration and national security, changes to our voting system, or even the left-wing bias within the media. Chief among the myriad of responses given to this question is the issue of free speech, especially with the recent motion, M-103. Lower down the list, if it even makes the list at all, is the issue of education reform. This needs to change. Any issue deemed important by the political right has its origins first within the education system, and we cannot address these problems without returning to their source.

On the issue of free speech, it is meaningless to preach the virtue of free speech if our citizens haven’t first been educated on why free speech is valuable. This, however, would require an education in history, specifically the use of censorship under authoritarian or totalitarian regimes.

An extremely telling study conducted by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) sheds insight on just how limited a working knowledge both millennials and generation Z’s actually have with respect to the atrocities committed under communist regimes, tragedies which were facilitated and exacerbated by the censorship of free speech. Nearly 32% of millennials truly believe more people were killed under George W. Bush than under Joseph Stalin, and only 55% of millennials believe communism was and is a problem.

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The education system as it has been for too many generations makes the prospect of restoration of the Republic pretty dismal. In the last two decades the downward slope of Public Education has steepened. Generations of Americans know no history so they do not have any examples to demonstrate what what sort of system works and what doesn’t work. Cause and effect mean little to them. They have no civics education, no geography and little of anything else involved with the classic Three Rs. They do not learn to add and subtract, much less multiply. Oh yes, we have the ubiquitous calculator now, but math training is reasoning training. They get none of that. They do not learn how to think. They get little language and language is the tools with which we think. We have generations of trainable people capable of only doing what they are told, except we have also trained a certain nihilism in them. They have no roots and no morals or ethics. They have no understanding of where prosperity comes from. If tasked with figuring it out they can only think of the Government as the origin of everything.

I may get flamed for this, but here goes:

Much of this mess can be put squarely on the shoulders of those who think that we’re deluged with failing schools because it’s the system, not the people in it. That is not true.

A large majority of young kids are not raised with any pride in being smart or genuinely intellectually curious and eager to make something of themselves in their own right. These days schools are oriented towards socialization and lets face facts, students do not need eight hours of school. A huge problem comes right back to parents who want their sprats to get to know the ‘right’ people (in high school of all places) and frankly I truly believe that trying to fit every single kid onto the university track has been a major contributor to this sensibility that knowing the right people will get you to the right places. We know this isn’t true, that after high school, social sets fracture and everyone goes their different ways in the real world.

Our biggest mistake is that we’re grooming our young people to become employees, not to go into business for themselves and parents are not raising their kids with the hard facts of life, that life isn’t going to go the way you expect it to and frankly too many young adults (I use the word ‘adult’ loosely) are being encouraged to indulge, as if they don’t have to plan for the future since their future is mapped out for them with a job and that the government will forgive their debts.

Parents might blame the schools and the middle class might feel besieged, but they are contributing to the problem by not raising their kids to build a work history instead of a transcript that gets them into a ‘good school’ (whatever that means these days). Parents are a major contributor to this mess and frankly I don’t blame two income households or Communists, but the parents and students themselves. Teachers do work very hard and make tremendous sacrifices and if the kids are not going to make a sincere and genuine effort, than so be it.

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