Right now I'm trying to download All Quiet so I can read it in German.
I love Remarque.
Today I watched again the scenes, in All Quiet, of the Professor. How he is like today's American "educators," who indoctrinate their students with their propaganda and mendacity!
Watching the Professor in the 1930 movie is like watching today's Professors in American classrooms from kindergarten to college.
My grandson (8th grade) recently said this to me:"My generation is the most cynical generation in American history." I think he's right. We who are honest know why.
There was a time when US teachers endeavoured to teach their students how to think. Today that's the last thing they want them to do (just like the Professor in All Quiet). They endeavour is to indoctrinate them--so that they cannot think for themselves!
Most do not realise what evil they are producing, with their propaganda, mendacity, and indoctrination.
The education system has and is de-nationalizing
our youth to the point they no longer see any need
to defend our system of government.
I was lucky enough to come across a set of Remarque
at a flea market many years ago.
What we are seeing now is the culmination of a hundred
years of communist preparation.
Maybe, but I feel that it's more like that they do not HAVE to think for themselves; as the thinking has been done already.
There are certain religions that operate on this level.