To: poinq
As Allan Bloom would say in his Closing of the American Mind, these university-trained dolts are trained for careers, which falls far short of a true education.
8 posted on
11/19/2017 10:04:36 PM PST by
Vision Thing
(You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
To: Vision Thing
"As Allan Bloom would say in his Closing of the American Mind, these university-trained dolts are trained for careers, which falls far short of a true education."
That is all the public schools and universities are meant to produce. And the owners of the system don't even try to hide this fact from us.
In our dreams, people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present education conventions of intellectual and character education, fade from their minds and unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people, or any of their children, into philosophers, or men of science. We have not to raise up from them authors, educators, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for great artists, painters, musicians nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen of whom we have an ample supply. The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.
John D Rockefeller
16 posted on
11/19/2017 11:40:19 PM PST by
Garth Tater
(Gone Galt and I ain't coming back.)
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