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As another man without a high school diploma, I discovered many years ago that the "educated" class is generally not educated at all, it is mis-educated. The whole purpose of American (perhaps all "western") "higher education" is obviously to bring minds into lock step with "The Agenda." As a general rule, the less official American education a person has been exposed to, the greater his/her ration of common sense.
"Education" is Spiritual Suicide
Modern course work in universities does not widen the scope of a student’s knowledge, it narrows it. It doesn’t cultivate wisdom. It cultivates ignorance. It doesn’t teach students to become independent and self-responsible citizens, rather, it conditions them to become more and more dependent upon the system of corporate employment and governmental assistance. It doesn’t encourage free thought and the questioning of external authority, but rather to accept unconditionally the official version of everything.
What today’s universities accomplish is to turn young students with malleable, questioning minds into rigid, unthinking drones destined to become cogs in the machinery of modern society, machinery that has been wholly devised and developed by none other than our aptly named Machine Men. In short, universities are institutional tools that manufacture unthinking and incurious machines – namely, graduates
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“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.” ~ Joseph Stalin
"I begin with the young." ~ Adolf Hitler
"He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future." ~ Adolf Hitler
"...the academic meltdown in our public education system is intentional. It asserts that change agents have been working at the Education Department to change curriculum, not to improve teaching but to promote a socialist agenda. Their role is to create schools which will mold obedient citizens who no longer have the knowledge and skills to improve their lot in life, but are dependent on government/multi-national companies' guidance to survive. The system will create imprisoned citizens that will be managed from cradle to grave to serve the needs of the state's managed economy."
Deliberate Dumbing Down of America
Only when all children in public, private and home schools are robotized-and believe as one-will World Government be acceptable to citizens and able to be implemented without firing a shot. The attractive-sounding "choice" proposals will enable the globalist elite to achieve their goal: the robotization (brainwashing) of all Americans in order to gain their acceptance of lifelong education and workforce training-part of the world management system to achieve a new global feudalism.
A 100 yr. Silent War on Education
Never mind that this country's education system is already tailor-made to spread misinformation, entrench mythologies, and promote American exceptionalism to our young children. American history, as taught in schools, is generally nonsense meant to instill and preserve a sense of City-on-a-Hill nationalism, along with healthy doses of tall-tale founding myths, gung-ho militarism, and ethnic cleansing justification in the form of righteous Manifest Destiny. As James W. Loewen explains in his 1995 book Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, textbooks used to teach our children "leave out anything that might reflect badly upon our national character."
Who's Really Brainwashing Our Children
i agree and i know, and thank you for controbuting that excellent material... What botherd me most is, u have to be the most brainless or most evil idiot in the world to think that will end well. They probably think its good or national security... Its terible for national security. Notjing could he worse for nationao security than to have a population of mindless clones.
Today's educational 'system' is being used as a mind control technique to dumb down kids into unthinking conformists and zombies who won't ask any questions.
In the entire history of man, no one has ever been brainwashed and realized, or believed, that he had been brainwashed. Those who have been brainwashed will usually passionately defend their manipulators, claiming they have simply been "shown the light" . . . or have been transformed in miraculous ways.
Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public
Most people have built in "slides" that short circuit the mind’s critical examination process when it comes to certain sensitive topics. "Slides" is a CIA term for a conditioned type of response which dead-ends a person’s thinking, and terminates debate or examination of the topic. For example, the mention of the word "conspiracy" usually solicits a slide response with many people. ~ Fritz Springmeier
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originally posted by: tavi45
a reply to: funkadeliaaaa
I work in education and the one home school kid I've met is creative, intelligent, and open minded. Home schooling is very very demanding though. This girl's mom can only do it with extensive help from the grandmother.
It's definitely superior to the modern k-12 system if done right. Unfortunately it's not feasible since most parents lack the time or education to do it properly.
originally posted by: tavi45
a reply to: funkadeliaaaa
People are doing exactly that. It's just hard to scale up nationally. Also you run into the issue of having indoctrination in homogenous communities. Imagine home school communities run by poorly educated people. The indoctrination will happen anyways just without any oversight.
originally posted by: VoidHawk
originally posted by: tavi45
a reply to: funkadeliaaaa
I work in education and the one home school kid I've met is creative, intelligent, and open minded. Home schooling is very very demanding though. This girl's mom can only do it with extensive help from the grandmother.
It's definitely superior to the modern k-12 system if done right. Unfortunately it's not feasible since most parents lack the time or education to do it properly.
I dissagree about it not being possible. I know quite a few home schoolers, and most of them spend the day playing!
Playing = Learning, though we're not supposed to notice that!
In the evenings the parents spend time with their children teaching them to read and write etc.
Something that really caught my attention was this - The five year old home schoolers that I know can all read write do numbers and know the alphabet. However, if they were now sent to school they'd spend the next six months learning to count to 15 and learning half the alphabet.
[1]Sending them to school would seriously hold them back as they can already count to any amount and have known the entire alphabet since they were three!!!
But they didnt have to spend their entire day in school being deprived of play to learn all this, they learnt quite naturally by playing, and a little tuition in the evenings from their parents.
There is so much wrong with the school system, for example they seperate them into age groups!
[2]Splitting children up into age groups seriously inhibits learning!
Pressure of passing exams / tests.
Its been proven that exams and tests cause the mind to go into defence mode. While in that mode the mind narrows itself to using only whats needed to survive.
School teaches us that children are incapable of learning on their own. This is absolute nonsense! So many tests carried out all around the world have proven that children are extremely good at teaching themselves.
I agree with op, schools are primarily a place of indoctrination. Programming the next generation of obedient unquestioning workers.