“Why Do Socialists Hate Education?”
Same reason Magicians hate people who know how their tricks are done ... they can’t baffle them anymore. It only thrives with ignorance and superstition and those who are willing to suspend any rational thought.
They pretend to be pro education, but are actually pro indoctrination. It makes the sheeples more easy to be controlled.
The more ignorant the beast, the easier it is to herd.
But involuntarily Government Socialism allows no freedom of individual person
As I've said before it the difference between love and rape...
Voluntary between the persons ...love..
Involuntary and forces on any one person..rape...
and the act is really about power and force
“Harvard, William and Mary, Yale, Princeton and the other early American colleges were established to train ministers. If there was room, they sometimes took students with no intention of entering the ministry; more often, the non-ministers had enrolled with a religious vocation but drifted away from it.”
Harvard, 1638
It only took eighteen years from the time the Pilgrims set foot on Plymouth Rock until the Puritans, who were among the most educated people of their day, founded the first and perhaps most famous Ivy League school. Their story, in brief, is etched today in an entry way to Harvard Yard:
“After God had carried us safely to New England, and we had built our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God’s worship, and settled the civil government; one of the next things we longed for, and looked after was to advance learning, and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.”
“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesom discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.” - Thomas Jefferson
“The most effectual means of preventing [the perversion of power into tyranny are] to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts which history exhibits, that possessed thereby of the experience of other ages and countries, they may be enabled to know ambition under all its shapes, and prompt to exert their natural powers to defeat its purposes.”- Thomas Jefferson
The second quote has most to do with why socialists (and their communist brothers) have some problem with education done well. Those of us who go about this business of education should always keep Jefferson’s words in mind as we work. Jefferson’s first quote illustrates why education is a necessity in the first place.