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The Anti-Educators

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Posted By: Garnet, 7/13/2021 1:55:20 PM

Public education exists primarily to supply economic and political necessities: basic literacy and numeracy, a dollop of civics. But beyond these modest (and increasingly unmet) goals, schools once gave students a taste of what Matthew Arnold called “the best which has been thought and said in the world”—or, if not that, then at least a few good books. The idea didn’t seem to need justification. At any rate, Mrs. White, my sixth-grade English teacher, born at the turn of the twentieth century, never offered us any. If pressed, she might have said something about developing competencies and virtues that would give our lives wholeness and character.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 7/13/2021 2:01:59 PM (No. 844461)
Public schools, once a great American institution, have devolved to nothing more than daycare centers and indoctrination centers for socialism, communism, and hatred for our country. They would be the envy of the former German Democratic Republic.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: bad-hair 7/13/2021 2:04:48 PM (No. 844463)
And then of course there's the "Boy Scouts" to train your 8 year old good little soldiers to march and live in a tree.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Blue-Z-Anna 7/13/2021 2:38:40 PM (No. 844494)
A more mature Marxist nation will once again teach love of country......but first we must cleanse the population of the various evil s generated in support of the foolish notions of rugged individualism and dangerous liberties.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: MDConservative 7/13/2021 3:25:57 PM (No. 844537)
The public schools are providing exactly what the majority demands: daycare and "values". Just that the values may not be yours. School boards are elected. In many places one cannot be elected without the teachers union endorsement. I'm surprised vocational classes haven't included tatooing, or is that in the art department?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Roscoelewis 7/13/2021 3:33:53 PM (No. 844550)
Once a school reaches a critical mass of about 20% Ubangi, it becomes unmanageable. Ask any teacher.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: columba 7/13/2021 3:57:14 PM (No. 844571)
The idea of public schools was given to America by an atheist group. The group warned repeatedly about the terror of "those Catholic schools" in order to get the public vote. Along came to government and the unions and .... well, you know what it is now.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Aubreyesque 7/13/2021 3:57:35 PM (No. 844573)
"Classical academies are proliferating, some with the support of Hillsdale College." This has been going on in the homeschool movement as well, in particular The Well Trained Mind, which is a rhetorical curriculum centered around teaching history in chronological order and fitting all outlying subjects (reading, writing, arithmetic, language, logic, economics as the most important, and then following whatever explorations the student wishes to follow) around that period of history. The curriculum goes in three "rounds" building upon the previous round of subjects until the student is an adult and ready to participate in the Real World.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Heraclitus 7/13/2021 4:40:09 PM (No. 844634)
Marxism/socialism/fascism are movements which attract those who unthinkingly follow the directions of strong leaders, they are quick to obedience and action. These movements attract children, the immature the easily manipulated. "He who thinks has already doubted." --a NAZI slogan This explains why these followers simply can NOT tolerate opposing thoughts, ideas, opinions, and why so much media is dedicated to feeding the ignorant masses only the pablum and shallow, insipid tipdbits and vacuity they are able to digest. This is always how the elites see the masses. They are highly class-conscious. And this is always why those who resist must be eliminated or brutally subdued to break the resistance. Therefore, they will never advocate for true pedagogy that leads people out of the darkness of ignorance into reason and understanding.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 7/13/2021 5:54:26 PM (No. 844705)
Screw you, teach.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: sanspeur 7/13/2021 6:31:31 PM (No. 844749)
“All in all you’re just another brick in the wall “ ! Public edumacating is to supply serfs , cannon fodder , forlorn hopes , baby makers .. and robust pensions for “true believers “.
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