Posted on 06/28/2023 6:15:16 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and Zach Lahn discuss the Wonder School, a Socratic-based education system in Wichita, Kansas. They delve into the value of learner-driven education, the origins of the American school system as a means to create obedient factory workers, and the true role of schools in shaping a child’s character. They also walk through a day in the life of a Wonder Leaner, the curriculum designed to help inspire these students toward their true calling, and exactly why this unconventional approach might be well worth your consideration as a parent.
Zach Lahn is the co-founder of Wonder, a learner-driven school in Wichita, Kansas, with the mission of helping young people find their calling and preparing them to change the world. His background in business has been as a founder of a search fund focused on acquiring and building small to medium companies. Prior to founding Wonder, Zach managed U.S. Congressional and Senatorial campaigns and raised funds for startup companies and nonprofit organizations. He now spends nearly all of his time at school with his six kids and with his wife, building a regenerative farm on his family’s ancestral homestead in Iowa.
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Peterson and Lahn discuss some of the reasons that many of us have homeschooled.
Your children are schooled to be factory workers, but they closed all the factories. So they changed the education to school your children to be angsty social justice warriors.
Public schools are moron, atheist, transgender, communist factories. Homeschool your children
Lately, children are being schooled to be prey for homosexuals and other assorted perverts.
Not a good thing in education.
I agree. I just find the setup of our government schools, based on the Frankfurt model, interesting and think it’s important for people to understand. That was a minor reason for why I homeschooled my children. The primary reason was I wanted them to have a superior education, particularly in mathematics. That’s where public school failed me. I was stuck in the middle of that “New Math” crap back in the 70’s. I recovered from it and ultimately went on to have a mathematics minor in college. So, it wasn’t that I lacked ability, it was public education sucked, even in the 70’s.
Factory workers? So now they are going to ship our children to Cbina?
One of the reasons the business model in America is successful is that all the different businesses are competing with each other to win the loyalty of the consumer. The best businesses win and the others disappear.
Schools can't do that because the education bureaucracy won't permit it.
Schools need to be liberated from the government and the education mafia.
You are correct. Public school teachers and teachers are vehemently against competition. They fight against charter schools, school choice and any changes to their funding model. But why? The vast majority of teachers are leftists, are poorly educated themselves, and have at best average cognitive abilities. They need a monopoly because they are just smart enough to know competition will put the in the unemployment line. They will fight any change. They are cornered and dangerous.
Who said “I don’t want a nation of thinkers. I want a nation of workers.”?
That’s right, 120 years ago, John D. Rockefeller. Created the General Education Board, and poured millions (billions in 2023 fiat) into creating an education system to do just that.
And for what purposes? His own.
Purposes were a good deal more nefarious than any personal interest in education. Systemically nefarious.
Around the same time, big Pharma was launched. Aligned with the demise of homeopathic medicine.
Around the same time, moves afoot to privatize the printing of currency via the FED.
Around the same time, the initial fulfillment of Albert Pike’s prophetic statements on war.
I haven’t watched the video yet, but in true FR tradition will comment anyway (grin). Just from the notes on the video and previous replies on this thread, it sounds like some this may be in line with what the late great John Taylor Gatto wrote about our educational system:
https://johntaylorgatto.com/blog/
Anyone interested in the subject who has not already checked out his books and articles may want to do so.
“the origins of the American school system as a means to create obedient factory workers”
This isn’t really news. I recall reading this when I was in high school in the mid 1970’s.
I guess the problem is that there are very few mundane factory jobs left. They are either higher tech now—due to the computerization of the workplace. Or they are floor sweeping drones who need very little training. The “in between” jobs have been shipped to China, Vietnam, or India.
Yeah, definitely not new. I was also in high school in the 70’s. The school prepared students to work at the local oil refinery. Of my graduating class of 486 (that’s after 200 or so dropouts) there were only 32 students that went on to college. I was one. About 15 of us graduated college. There were plenty of reasons for that, but one was a guidance counselor that talked kids out of going to college. She did that with me despite very good grades and astronomically high SATs. She also did that to my best friend who scored 1600 on his SATs. He started taking SATs twice per when he was in 7th grade. (Good strategy). Schools in 70’s did not care about academic achievement.
A former dean at UGa told me that he supervised 60 professors, and every one of them thought he or she was the smartest person in the world.
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They no longer need factory workers, but they found a new use for obedient zombies.
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