[corlorde]

Because children are not given the grounding by doing the hard stuff of learning, the memorization, the drills, the creation of pattern and discipline, they will never be truly free to THINK on their own. Without the base, the technique, someone will always be manipulating or recreating them according to the latest fad, trend or totalitarian frame of reference that intellectuals usually succumb to.

That's a keeper.

[A'elian' nation]

“That’s a Keeper.”
That was the exact segment I copied into my Zotero on Firefox before getting to your post.

That, and this one: “Public schools are the country’s largest employer and the largest mediator in contracts.”

Albert Shanker, once president of the American Federation of Teachers, said “I’ll start looking after the interests of school kids when they start paying dues.”

That’s what the American progressive education system has come to. It’s just a means of employing government workers and funneling union dues back to democrats.

Public Education is a slush fund. Period

And the best way to end it is, as another Freeper posted, to stop hiring teachers from the “Departments of Education” in universities.