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Paglia: The Dumbing Down of America Began in Public Schools
Intellectual Takeout ^ | 20 Oct 2021 | Anne Holmquist

Posted on 10/20/2021 3:19:13 PM PDT by Rummyfan

In the last several years, Americans have been sensing that something is seriously wrong with the current crop of young people. True, they are likely to have the most education credentials any generation has ever received. They also are technically-savvy, and as such, have a wealth of knowledge at their fingertips.

But in spite of these factors, today’s students seem to exhibit a character that is high in sensitivity and low in knowledge. What gives? Why are our students turning out like this?

Camille Paglia recently revealed the answer to that question. Paglia, a long-time Democrat, feminist, and college professor, believes the problem started in the earliest stages of education in the nation’s public schools:

“It’s really started at the level of public school education. I’ve been teaching now for 46 years as a classroom teacher, and I have felt the slow devolution of the quality of public school education in the classroom.”

According to Paglia, teachers at elite institutions are unable to see this decline in knowledge because their students often come from private schools and wealthy homes, which presumably still retain some elements of rigorous education. The great majority of students, however, can be described in the following way:

“What has happened is these young people now getting to college have no sense of history – of any kind! No sense of history. No world geography. No sense of the violence and the barbarities of history. So, they think that the whole world has always been like this, a kind of nice, comfortable world where you can go to the store and get orange juice and milk....

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TOPICS: Education; Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: anneholmquist; arth; camillepaglia; paglia
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To: metmom

Yep.

We’ve known this.

Rs have been mostly silent about this, for decades.

Not all...but, most. Especially in the last decade.


41 posted on 10/20/2021 8:51:08 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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To: wintertime

Let’s face it, being white is great! Get a little Sun to tan the arms and legs...not too much, of course.
I try to understand the darker bunch and, yes, it is easy to see what their biggest problem is....they ain’t white.


42 posted on 10/20/2021 8:51:35 PM PDT by BatGuano (Fauci = Mengele)
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To: dragnet2

It started with California.

My time in the service showed me Californians did not have a damn clue about the USA.

I would quiz my supers from Cali about anything USA and they were clueless. This was an AFSOC that had a very high standard.

Early 1980’s.


43 posted on 10/20/2021 9:16:47 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: eyedigress

No, it started in local public schools coast to coast, going back decades.


44 posted on 10/20/2021 9:33:58 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: stanne

“This next statement is moot as the stee as Yemeni prior is false. Quit wasting my time.”

Yeah, okay...got it. Thanks for clearing that up.


45 posted on 10/20/2021 9:38:22 PM PDT by bluejean (Surviving one day at a time in the global psych ward.)
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To: dragnet2

Not in mine.


46 posted on 10/20/2021 9:46:19 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: bluejean

To: bluejean
“they have also been taught not to bully a person on the basis of their race, class, gender, or any other trait.“

“They have not been taught this. They are being taught that white people are oppressors and that white males in particular are tge least bc worthy of respect. There is much more to argue here

“ On the surface, that seems like a good thing…”

Bla bla bla.

I read the whole thing. This next statement is moot as the statement prior is false. Quit wasting my time.


47 posted on 10/20/2021 9:49:29 PM PDT by stanne
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To: eyedigress

I see, you had all conservative public schools. But I can assure you, 95% percent of all the other public schools are not that way. And it’s certainly no secret.


48 posted on 10/20/2021 10:47:05 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

I did. They were very strict. We had a milk at 9am for 5c.

I would bring it on a tray. We had old school lunch all made in the cafeteria. We had an old school playground with that wild wheel and monkey bars. Sometimes you get hurt, Sometimes you do not. It was all about the ABC’s. The history was in the room.

I even got to help the janitor one morning when temps were below 0. He needed help with the school furnace.

I shoveled coal into that thing for hours. (all the rooms had radiators from that) 6th grade.

I enjoyed learning.


49 posted on 10/20/2021 10:58:46 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President! )
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To: Fester Chugabrew

“I have stacks of family letters from old.”

A few letters we’ve found at the family farm is a back-and-forth between two brothers. I haven’t read them recently, but IIRC the unmarried brother offered to go to war — the Civil War, I think — in place of his brother who was married with a family. I don’t remember how it turned out.


50 posted on 10/21/2021 4:35:38 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty. Don't forget his cohort)
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To: Rummyfan
Thanks. I have seen some good articles on Intellectualtakeout.org. Currently:

American Barbarism Is Alive and WellFrom foul language to fashion to our fondness for killing babies, America has all the signs of having become a barbarous country. Read more

The Impending Mass Firing of America’s Unvaccinated

Schoolmasks

Who's Choking Off Your Children?


51 posted on 10/21/2021 7:44:03 AM PDT by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save + be baptized + follow Him!)
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To: eyedigress
And everyone thought it was people from CA making their states turn blue, when the ugly reality says it’s their own schools who are producing hundreds of thousands of newly minted young liberal voters every single year.

I did. They were very strict. We had a milk at 9am for 5c.

Well that's great going down memory lane when you had milk and cookies and everyone in the public schools you attended were conservative and loved America.

But that's not what we're talking about, is it? That's certainly not happening today, is it eyedigress?

52 posted on 10/21/2021 10:24:11 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: China Clipper

I’ve gotten a lot of laughs at the expense of my 20-something co-worker who could not read a tape measure and did not understand fractions.

Of course he was always the first one to whip out his phone and drawl “Hey, Google ...” into it if he had a question.


53 posted on 10/21/2021 12:12:14 PM PDT by Cloverfarm (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem ...)
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To: Rummyfan

My friend called today after a two-week hiking trip with a group. She was spouting off that some of the group had no idea what an oligarchy is. She’s a Boomer; the ignorant ones are the next-younger generation (whatever that is - millennials?).


54 posted on 10/21/2021 12:16:25 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty. Don't forget his cohort)
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To: dragnet2

California was quite proud of themselves for being the new Europe.

Not so much anymore.


55 posted on 10/21/2021 2:59:29 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President! )
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