The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarters Expenses?
Posted on 11/19/2011 10:49:19 AM PST by radpolis
On the way to B of A, they paused at Citi to scream at the walls. These are college students, acting like 2-year-olds throwing a tantrum. What does that tell you about their critical thinking skills--and about the standards of American higher education? The likes of the New York Times expect us to take such incoherent spasms of rage seriously as a political "movement." What does that tell us about the standards of the liberal media?
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The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarters Expenses?
That they’re insects, and the only rational response is the flit spray.
confirms that the “college experience” is an expensive “bubble”...
The leftists of the 60's were able to do as much damage as they did because they had a 50's education.
So what if our high schools and colleges have turned America's youth into a bunch of Marxists? Marx was a smart Marxist. The spawn of our education system will be Marxists who can't even spell his name properly.
We have little to fear from them unless they are properly managed by a vanguard of elites. However, the elites are too busy making money to care about ideological purity.
We have reached the "end of history" and it is a small cadre of greedy bastards trying to get a mass of illiterates to buy their crap or invest in their Ponzi schemes.
It tells us little we didn't already know.
bttt
You are insulting tantrum throwing 2 year olds when you compare them to OWS morons. At least the 2 year olds will grow up and -- with any luck -- become CONSERVATIVES. The OWS morons should be compared to manure, but then you are insulting manure!!
They are against the connection between Wall Street and Washington until you point to the actual connections and the actual people involved.
They are against government handing money and favor to corporations until you point out the actual companies receiving money and favor from Washington.
They are tools of the very people who sit on the top floors of the buildings they are picketing.
"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them. And it requires no very high degree of education to convince them of this. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787.
"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government." --Thomas Jefferson to Richard Price, 1789.
"Whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, the people, if well informed, may be relied on to set them to rights." --Thomas Jefferson to Richard Price, 1789.
"I do not think it for the interest of the General Government itself, and still less of the Union at large, that the State governments should be so little respected as they have been. However, I dare say that in time all these as well as their central government, like the planets revolving round their common sun, acting and acted upon according to their respective weights and distances, will produce that beautiful equilibrium on which our Constitution is founded, and which I believe it will exhibit to the world in a degree of perfection, unexampled but in the planetary system itself. The enlightened statesman, therefore, will endeavor to preserve the weight and influence of every part, as too much given any member of it would destroy the general equilibrium." --Thomas Jefferson to Peregrine Fitzhugh, 1798. ME 10:3
"I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." --Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis, 1820. ME 15:278
"If Caesar had been as virtuous as he was daring and sagacious, what could he, even in the plenitude of his usurped power, have done to lead his fellow citizens into good government?... If their people indeed had been, like ourselves, enlightened, peaceable, and really free, the answer would be obvious. 'Restore independence to all your foreign conquests, relieve Italy from the government of the rabble of Rome, consult it as a nation entitled to self-government, and do its will.' But steeped in corruption, vice and venality, as the whole nation was,... what could even Cicero, Cato, Brutus have done, had it been referred to them to establish a good government for their country?... No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and their people were so demoralized and depraved as to be incapable of exercising a wholesome control. Their reformation then was to be taken up ab incunabulis. Their minds were to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and deterred from those of vice by the dread of punishments proportioned, indeed, but irremissible; in all cases, to follow truth as the only safe guide, and to eschew error, which bewilders us in one false consequence after another in endless succession. These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure of order and good government. But this would have been an operation of a generation or two at least, within which period would have succeeded many Neros and Commoduses, who would have quashed the whole process. I confess, then, I can neither see what Cicero, Cato and Brutus, united and uncontrolled could have devised to lead their people into good government, nor how this enigma can be solved." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1819. ME 15:233
"An enlightened people, and an energetic public opinion... will control and enchain the aristocratic spirit of the government." --Thomas Jefferson to Chevalier de Ouis, 1814. ME 14:130
"I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." --Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis, 1820.
"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories. And to render even them safe, their minds must be improved to a certain degree." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia, 1782.
From James Madison:
"Although all men are born free, and all nations might be so, yet too true it is, that slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant – they have been cheated; asleep – they have been surprised; divided – the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson?... The people ought to be enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after establishing a government they should watch over it."
"A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people."
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
"To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea."
Bill Whittle is a treasure.
We all pretty much know what is going on with the media...
We all hoped that our kids and grandkids would learn more than we EVER knew, but that, unfortunately, is not the case. When casting about for one area that deserves the largest share of the blame, turn to the public school system, controlled by the fed and run by education “experts”. They have laid this rail for 100 years, and now, here comes the train. If you do not believe that their no.1 priority was the dumbing down of the population, then I invite you to read anything by Dewey, and a lot of Marx. Their sole intent was the socialization of our children.
In spite of what they have beaten you over the head with, you DO know what’s best for your kids, and you DO know how to educate them well.
Until the day that we are able to destroy the “education establishment” (including and especially the DOE), send your kids to a private, or teach them yourself. Get over the idea that, while education is in trouble, YOUR child’s school is great. There is NO SUCH THING as a “good” public school. I don’t care where you live, I don’t care how much you pay in property taxes, the public school teaches exactly what it teaches in any urban area kid-dump. It WILL drive a wedge between you and your child; it WILL view you as an idiot without the means to “properly” train your child; it WILL continue to destroy the values you want to teach your children; it WILL work hard at sexualizing your children, in spite of what YOU want; and it WILL continue to destroy your child’s intellect for the sake of “socialization”.
Luckily, they are still a small minority (17%) even with a big propaganda media and re-education system.
Well said!
Is Obama Occupy a braindead group?
Occupy may Occupy the MSM.
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