Posted on 02/09/2009 5:13:59 AM PST by Tolik
That’s waaayyyy too convenient an explanation — and it’s also a useless one. It’s all the schools’ fault? Hardly! What’s going on in schools is mostly just a reflection of the culture around us.
Look at what passes these days for news, entertainment, politics, and so on — they’re all geared to the length of a TV commercial. You can’t blame that on schools.
The fact is that we’re well on the way to being a decadent culture. We’re incredibly wealthy, to the end that people in general seem to have lost a sense that there are consequences to what we do.
The public schools are but a symptom of the larger issue.
The problem is godless liberal secular humanism. Separation of Christianity and all things public.
Look at Europe to see where we’re headed. Fast.
They got their way there and the back-fill into that vacuum is militant Islam.
Victor Davis Hanson: Eighteen Days of Hope and Change? [Was it all about power, after all?..]
NRO ^ | February 09, 2009 | Victor Davis Hanson
BTTT
All that you said is true, but in 2008 the young voters have not seen any hardship in their lives, because no one is allowed to fail! Just lower the standards until everyone passes! Also, personal responsibility is not a well internalized concept with this cohort. Blame can Always be placed on someone or something else.
I am not blaming the young voters for behaving as they have been reared. I am just stating one of the results of our modern education system that was taken over by the Bill Ayers of our country, and abdicated by conservatives, who left the field of education to these wannabe Marxists.
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