“but the schools make sure we only learn useless life-destroying stuff like how to put on condoms.”
You know, I’m 42. I came of age in the 80’s. There was no “condom class” in my high school (at least the year or so that I remember) so my Dad had “the talk” with me and showed me a condom, told me how it was used. I put his lesson to very good use until I was married and (I thought) prepared to raise children.
I say get that junk out of the schools, it’s the parents job, not the teachers.
You got to the essence of the problem. Parent’s are allowing government to shape and form their children’s worldview.
It never was allowed until the 1970’s although the textbooks were using BF Skinner techniques in curricula unknown to parents in the 50’s and 60’s and television was also using psychology to push Hollywood’s agenda into the minds of the masses.
This conditioning—of removing mother’s from their vulnerable children was glamorized and advertised as intellectually superior “preschool”. Ideas which would never have produced a Lincoln, Einstein, Franklin, etc.—individuals who think outside the box—something that our Prussian designed school system of “group think” tries to intentionally kill. Eighties even started “group math”. Collectivism is so obvious, it is actually almost funny, if it weren’t so damaging to moral formation.
John Stuart Mills ideas of government-controlled education is exactly correct. All the state-run schools want is a bunch of ‘group non thinkers’ who can be told what to do—what to buy—what to think. Herded and controlled by their fleshly pleasures as incentive. Pieces of cake tossed out periodically to give illusion of happiness in the artificial matrix of total slavery.
Well, he didn’t say exactly that...but...