I’d first ask: What is the goal of education?
To provide good paying jobs to liberal democrats.
“I’d first ask: What is the goal of education?”
The answer is the same as “what is the goal of government”?
And the answer in today’s America is “To provide pensions for legions of marginally competent people”
The corollary is that actual education (or whatever government is supposed to be doing) is accomplished despite government, not because of it.
Since the goal is pensions/employment, regardless of competence, there can be no actual standards, no tests of proficiency, no measures of efficiency or effectiveness.
A tertiary goal of government is to use government to perpetuate more government - squashing political opponents, or proponents of any sort of “reform” or anyone who might insert fiscal rationality - because it might reduce employment/pensions.
It doesn’t matter what agency - education, military, IRS, whatever or if it is local, state, federal. The first goal is to employ legions of the otherwise unemployable and get taxpayers who must live in the real world to pay for it.
>>I’d first ask: What is the goal of education?
Yes. The real goal. Not the one they tell parents.
“I’d first ask: What is the goal of education?”
A very good question, allow me to ask first, what is the DEFINITION of education? Personally I think education is about learning how to make a LIFE. If it is all about how to make a LIVING I call that job training rather than education. Much of modern “education” seems to fall into either how to make a living or political indoctrination. By my proposed definition (not original, I read it somewhere) there is very little education going on in the USA today. Young people seem to have little or no knowledge of history, civics, literature, geography etc. Amazingly most don’t even know the number of feet in a statute mile, maybe that is unimportant but it seems strange to someone like myself who learned that at such an early age I couldn’t even guess at when I learned it. I cannot forget that it is 5280 feet but most now seem never to have learned it.
Ask any recent college graduate how many square feet are in one acre and you will almost certainly get a blank look. Ask him if he knows how to calculate the number and you will get another blank look. Tell him to square 5280 and divide it by 640 and you will get a realy blank look unless his parents happen to be in the land surveying business.
Common Core is for Mind Control. (It destroys individualism and fosters “group think” (emotional control only).
As Fichte stated who is the Father of the Prussian system of mass education (programing attitudes and godless “faith”) along with other Germans-—you have to “destroy Free Will” (Kill God (Christianity/Free Will) in children (program them with operant conditioning— lies and misinformation) so that they will never be able to use Reason and be critical thinkers. Facts and Truth (God) will be meaningless.
Control the emotions of the masses-—and you can control the NWO with the useful idiots. Lenin knew this and is why he destroyed marriage laws to destroy the emotional formation of children-—to make them easily programmed by the State-—then Stalin reversed the easy divorce laws since it was going to collapse culture (by 1935-—it was creating such irrational, useless, unmanageable idiots). With the collapse of religion, addicts and unreliable people who can’t form lasting, solid relationships which destroys the moral formation of the children-—makes little drones—incapable of a Republic which requires a virtuous people (Founders).
The most irrational, evil concept used to destroy Free Will in children is teaching them to hate the opposite sex-—to be dysfunctional and desire the irrational (evil) and programing hate for males/females/self/God (Christianity). The promotion of Vice (sodomy) in a “Justice System” is what will ultimately collapse Reason and Virtue in children——make them like little tribal, irrational people who actually believe Good is Evil.
It throws out the concepts that made America and the Age of Reason and the ability to be critical thinkers —Natural Law Theory (Science/biology/Objective Truth (God)). Without Truth (God), you can have no unity and no individual Natural Rights from God.-—only from the State.
Homosexuality promotion is Malthusian and Marxism at its core—to destroy the Christian Worldview to collapse Classical Ecuation (Christianity/Stoicism/Excellence) for non-thinking interchangeable drones who are “Happy Slaves” of vices (irrational dummies) for the State/corporations-—happy with crumbs and being used.
Hmmm... is it to provide people who aren't equipped to support themselves with productive work with a "safe space", where there is no competition based on performance, a Guaranteed Lifetime Income, lots of time off, unlimited "second chances" for behavior bordering on the criminal, and a very generous "public employee" pension?
Cuz the "academics" who run the teachers unions really seem to think it is.