Posted on 08/07/2010 8:26:18 PM PDT by Milhous
... The ruling elite has to pretend that it does not exist. It formally acknowledged the legitimacy of the People as the final court of appeal. This involved training and screening the judges.
Basic to maintaining this deception has been control over the media. Also vital has been control over the schools – compulsory attendance laws, teacher certification, tax funding, and school accreditation. Above all has been control over textbooks.
This control is ending in the area of printed media, especially newspapers, which are dying. Control over TV news is fading. Digits are killing them. Now control over education is about to be undermined. Same reason: digits. ...
It still exists in Thailand.
Interesting article. Thanks!
I've audited about 120 hours of the MIT lectures and more of the Google TechTalk lectures. Free information, freely given and freely passed is a great thing.
Stealing intellectual property, on the gripping hand, is something different. Folks need to learn the difference and respect it.
/johnny
Like the Second Wave TV networks (or for that matter smokestack industries), our mass education systems are largely obsolete. Exactly as in the case of the media, education will require a proliferation of new channels and a vast expansion of program diversity. A high-choice systems will have to replace a low-choice system if schools are to prepare people for a decent life in the new Third Wave society, let alone for economically productive roles.
- "PowerShift", Alvin Toffler
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"The children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone would be interdependent. "
Yes, a revolution is coming eventually, but it will take a long, long time to overturn the necessary legislation. But this economic crisis is a good time to start planting the idea of the breakup of the educational system.
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Six Amazing Facts About Illinois State Pensions:Options open to politicians (eg the people) are rapidly dwindling. It's getting to the point where politicians may either commit political suicide by managing economic collapse or do nothing and ensure a chaotic economic collapse. My money's on the do nothing camp.
- Almost All of These Multi-millionaire "Servants" Are Educators.
- Every One of These "Servants" Are Tax Funded Multi-millionaires.
- Illinois Taxpayers On The Hook For At Least A Trillion Dollars in Taxes to Pay For State Retirements.
- Sixty-three State Employees Had Pensions Greater Than President Clinton's Pension.
- Average Years Worked In University System for $100,000 Pension: 29 Years.
- Average Pension For 35 Years Worked In University System: $160,444.
It all begins locally. Support your local candidates and state candidates and congressional and US senate candidates. That’s what I’m doing. Lets get real folks in there at all levels. We need to get off of our asses and work for this.
Defeat the RINOs in the primaries and the rats in November.
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Irony of ironies...I earned my teaching certification through a company that uses Moodle. I thought the technology was just amazing!
"Harvard: Because not Everyone CanGet intoMIT."
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