Artificial Stupidity (Creating Mindless Followers In Our Public Schools)

Capitalism Magazine ^ | March 25, 2003 | Thomas Sowell

[Ga Rob]

You'd think wouldn't you???

[Ga Rob]

My son Tristan has not even arrived yet(June 5th)...I am just trying to plan ahead. I'll freepmail you, thanks!!

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity. In an age of artificial intelligence, too many of our schools are producing artificial stupidity, in the sense of ideas and attitudes far more foolish than young people would have arrived at on their own.

This one's a keeper.

[cardinal4]

Early congrats for Tristans arrival!!

[ladylib]

And she is sincerely dead and well and truly dead for her stupidity.

[EdReform]

Another excellent article by Thomas Sowell.

Bump & Ping

[Remedy]

BUMP!

[TomSmedley]

go for it!

[dd5339]

Great read!

Semper Fi

[headsonpikes]

"Only Americans can destroy America."

The Public School system is the embedded ENEMY of America.

Teach your children to disrespect wrongful authority.

[fporretto]

The public schools are a bigger threat to this country than Saddam.

Well, yes, but please don't bomb the one next to my house!

I suggest not calling them "public," by the way. They don't serve the public. They serve the careerism of educrats, the propaganda needs of many left-wing special interests, and occasionally the PR purposes of various organs of government. The students in them get a few crumbs from what's left... sometimes.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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http://palaceofreason.com

[ppaul]

Thanks for posting those pics of the "martyr" for the terrorist cause who was killed when she kneeled before a bulldozer blade.

After 9/11, the leftist navelgazers kept asking "Why do they hate us?"
Maybe if we'd stop sending morons over to foreign countries to teach their little children to hate us, and instead tell them what is godd about America, those little children might actually grow up to have a realistic impression of the US.

[Vic3O3]

Dang! Sowell hits it on the head again!

[TxBec]

Thanks! Going to print this out and stick it on my bulletin board. :)

[mamaduck]

Thanks for the ping!2J

and Rob: Homeschooling is easy - watching your kids destroyed by public school, now that would be hard.

We figure we may not be able to teach them everything, but what they are learning is TRUE.

And what they are learning about how life really works, and the importance of family and home as the basis of real life, and how to behave with consideration of their fellow man (even the public school fools they will have to deal with later) - this is what we believe is critically important.

You'll do fine. I think the great homeschooling secret is that it is easy and it is FUN! shhhhhh!

[don-o]

Homeschool - The last and best hope for the Republic.

[nebulas]

Homeschooling is best. However, (bear with me here), a LOT of problems could be solved if conservative parents would step up to the plate and volunteer in the organizations that the kids are in. I'm a PTA board member. I have a big mouth and lots of opinions. What I found, is that I wasn't the only one, just the only one willing to speak out. I was willing to call PC ridiculous and go head to head with the liberals. I win more often than I lose. I have backing of other board members and some of them have begun to find that THEY can speak out, be heard, and make a difference. Same with the sports teams and Sunday School and Boy Scouts, etc...

MY kids will think for themselves. I read the textbooks and we discuss the inaccuracies/lies therein. I correct teachers (one told my son that Texas had been annexed by the US...I don't think so). I feel that we need to make a difference in the larger world. And it's hard to change anything from outside.

[Osage Orange]

You wrote:

"The humanist-socialist rabble intended for this to happen when they first began to introduce public education back in the 1800's. They have done their job well. When you separate kids from their parents, you open up the doors to all sorts of mayhem."

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I disagree.....I believe they would be shocked at what has happened to "public" schools. In fact...I think teachers that taught in the 40's, 50's would be shocked as well....

BWDIK--

[madfly]

Great article. Do you have a link for this?

[Eva]

I have been reading Roosevelt's Secret War and I had a similar thought this morning. Roosevelt's Secret War had little to nothing to do with a moral superiority. We didn't win WWII because of anything that Roosevelt did, we won because of the strength of the American people.

As a side note, the left is fond of referring to George Bush as a spoiled frat boy, but this description is much more aptly applied to Roosevelt.