Website review: So-Called Education Intentionally D...
formerfenix discovered this in Health/Fitness
•9 reviews since May 11, 2008
health, education, society
•naturalnews.com/023215.html
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metally79 rated 5 weeks ago- My husband and I talk about this very issue quite frequently. ..."something is deeply wrong in America and the world. It's as if the vast majority of people have given up. Given up caring. Given up thinking. Given up common sense".... "We think of our school system as something that has always existed. The reality is quite different. In the U.S. expecting all children to go to school a certain amount of time every day for a certain number of months and a certain number of years didn't come into being until the early twentieth century, 1905-1915. Hardly any of the greats of American history went through much formal schooling. That includes Thomas Jefferson. George Washington. Benjamin Franklin. Thomas Edison. Herbert Melville. Mark Twain. Margaret Mead. Admiral Farragut. And so many more. Obviously, formal secondary schooling, at least of the type we now have, is not a requisite for learning, creativity, or greatness."
- java99 rated 5 weeks ago
- i think they're trying to say we're stupid...
- JackyeChan rated 5 weeks ago
- Duh.
- geezeus rated 6 weeks ago
- From the page: "Herbert Melville" lol, go back to school it's Herman Melville. It's actually pretty simple, the people who have become "dumbed down" never really would have become anything, it's just reverse filtration.
- Efflorescent rated 6 weeks ago
- From the page: " Hardly any of the greats of American history went through much formal schooling. That includes Thomas Jefferson. George Washington. Benjamin Franklin. Thomas Edison. Herbert Melville. Mark Twain. Margaret Mead. Admiral Farragut. And so many more."
- scttwms rated 7 weeks ago
- From the page: "So-Called Education Intentionally Dumbs Down Americans" Maybe that's not really true, but I loath public school bureaucrats so thumbs up to all who vilify them. And I wouldn't put it past some of our rulers to actually be pleased with the dumbing down.
- vanetia rated 8 weeks ago
- From the page: "Prussian culture, the predecessor of 20th century Germany, created a system of schooling designed to produce nonthinking masses. It was this system that supplied the concepts for America's compulsive pseudo-education of the masses."
- lazarst rated 8 weeks ago
- From the page: "We think of our school system as something that has always existed. The reality is quite different. In the U.S. expecting all children to go to school a certain amount of time every day for a certain number of months and a certain number of years didn t come into being until the early twentieth century, 1905-1915. Hardly any of the greats of American history went through much formal schooling. That includes Thomas Jefferson. George Washington. Benjamin Franklin. Thomas Edison. Herbert Melville. Mark Twain. Margaret Mead. Admiral Farragut. And so many more. Obviously, formal secondary schooling, at least of the type we now have, is not a requisite for learning, creativity, or greatness. Let s ask who benefits when the great mass of people becomes complaisant, unable to think, unable to entertain themselves, and interested only in possessions. The answer is simple: corporations. When the mass of children are forced to go through a system that destroys creativity and rewards group-think, they are prepared to fill their predestined roles in a lockstep workforce and unthinking consumption corps. What are Americans good at? Buying, of course. Having the latest and greatest of... well, of anything and everything, as long as the media tells them they should have it. It s how Americans measure themselves, how they determine their success. Who cares if someone can carry on a good conversation about the state of the world? Who even wants to listen? It s so depressing. Let s talk about the cool super-fast car that Joe just bought or the fancy house Jim and Mary are getting for no money down!"
- YearoftheRat rated 8 weeks ago
- Only one problem. The author spelled Complacent wrong. Hmmm.
