Posted on 04/15/2011 7:17:56 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Interesting comparison, farming and education. Thanks for posting. I’ll have to spend more time on it later.
For people who want to learn, a great deal could be accomplished with lectures on DVDs and online testing. Those who do not want to learn just muck up the system and drive up costs when we try to force them into the system.
Modern education is a racket. Get a job. Learn a trade. Pick up the skills you need in order to move ahead. Sitting in a classroom with 30 other people is generally a waste of time.
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It can't come soon enough.
The problem with public education is not “just” the cost, but the quality of the “education” received by the students. It is more about propaganda and the “party line” than about the process of learning useful knowledge.
That MUST change, or the nation will die.
“A people ignorant and free, never was and never will be.” -Thomas Jefferson
“Now 5 million tractors and a dazzling array of farm implements do the work of thousands”
I understand the context but the way it’s written makes it look like we are wasting money on tractors.
“Modern education is a racket. Get a job. Learn a trade. Pick up the skills you need in order to move ahead. Sitting in a classroom with 30 other people is generally a waste of time.”
Agreed. I earned my Business degree while serving in the military. That combination of education on the fly and real world experience has served me well.
Every job I’ve had, post-Army has been a cakewalk compared to what was expected to be accomplished each and every DAY in the military.
I’ve done everything from construction management to managing agri-related businesses. It’s been a fun ride! People have entrusted me with millions of their dollars, just based on my little degree and my ability to get things done.
There were times when it was really hard, but I sure wish more kids would consider that path. (My son is at a tech school right now working on a computer degree...he understands what he’s up against.)
You are right. But I will add one thing....education is more than a racket...it is a means to an end (in the Marxist/Skinnerean sense).
It is to create group-think (mass conformity and stupidity—where logic is non-existent). Dewey set up the Prussian design for mass indoctrination—but the design of one teacher to same age in forced school system—leads to NO outside the box thinkers. All subject matter is set to mediocre at best....the brightest are bored to death and act out and get medicated and destroyed.
Peers make him seem odd and an outsider and he learns to “fit” in through gentle humiliation from teacher and peers.......It is to kill any old fashioned ideas of Intelligent Design and meaning and hope in life. Make kids into trousered animals—just consumers of what ever the elites try to sell—sex, earthly pleasures...even ideas—such as homosexual marriage, no matter how bizarre and how unnatural.
It is to keep the masses down and busy.....interested in stupid non-important stuff—time consuming nonsense—avoiding the true meaning and questions of life.
Our education system was designed by Marxists (Dewey, Dr. Rugg/Dr. Counts, Bill Ayers) to create little non-thinking Marxists because communism allows for no logic—it defies Natural Law Theory which is just common sense.
It depends on the skills being learned. I don't want to be operated on by a surgeon who graduated from a distance learning program. Some skills can't be learned from lectures and books, so there will always be a need for some type of program that provides hands-on learning.
However - this is the exception. Most programs could be taught via distance learning.
IMHO, one can never be too rich, too thin or have too many tractors! :)
The Revolution will not be televised.
It will be on YouTube...
Then, the question becomes...who takes over for the Socialists in the future when their pool of candidates is so ‘dumbed-down’ as to be useless in a leadership role?
I mean, I’m not saying the Left is smart, though they are clever and insidious...and those aren’t usually naturally acquired talents. It takes time to learn to lie to and hypnotize the masses on a minute-by-minute basis...though current TV *SHUDEER* and all manner of other social ills sure does aid them in their quest!
I’ve been dating a farm girl for a few years now and just last year was formally indoctrinated into antique tractor culture at a few events.
A very interesting hobby and seeing hundreds at one time lined up in show rows opened up my eyes to something I never even knew existed.
And edited properly to suit the cause! ;)
We farm girls are pretty interesting all the way around. :) I know more than a few of us have brought a lot to the table for our men - you know, food we’ve grown, animals we’ve raised and butchered, an appreciation of all things ‘au natural’...that kind of stuff, LOL!
Play this Sinatra for your girlfriend!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZctoaLQMmTM
Oh, and marry her if she’ll have ya! We don’t last long when we’re suddenly on the available market, LOL! :)
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