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children are taught to be tools not to be thinkers. THinking is discouraged in public schools. which is why my father looked for private schools and homeschooling that were contrary to public school cirriculum. He was a school teacher as well and was black balled from a few school districts for not playing ball. it is a pretty corrupt system. People are taught to accept and love the servitude.... did carrol quigley say that??
Forgive me if this was already asked, as I want to ask this before i read past your OP so that I'm not influenced by other posters' opinions. What was the word that supposedly made this other person's brain "hiccup"? If we're to take it as any proof that americans are being programmed we have to know the word. For all we know she just had no idea what the word meant. Not everyone shares the same level of understanding in word definitions. As for the rest of your OP, it's intriguing I'll give you that. Lot of information. I just don't see how effective such a thing could be with the massive access to information that is available in this day and age.
You would probably be amazed at how much research RealSpoke really did to pick apart your entire article and find the one thing he can use to try to discredit and bait an argument out of you. Real classy eh? A lot of the links you provided tell the story right from the horses mouth, schools have become indoctrination centers for fear and guilt based manipulation. Your taught to take a specific set of information, hold it, than regurgitate it back onto the exam paper and your judged on how good you can do this. It's rarely about what you think, what you want, its designed to exercise only very limited parts of the left brain. When I took Philosophy is highschool, I didn't learn anything about real Philosophy, I just learned the names and dates of great philosophers. Same thing with Religion class, all we were taught was the names and dates of saints and prophets etc. nothing about the real subject matter. The sad part is there are so many useful idiots that actually believe and promote whats happening in the education system, its frightening when you think about it.
Originally posted by RealSpoke
"This is a call for a socialist America, We will just use the schools to change America from a free individualistic economy to a planned socialist economy in the new order". -Carnegie 1934 (can follow up their tracks up to today)
I googled this quote and the only place that it returns to is this thread....so where did it come from? Did you make it up?
But uh, the TPTB are failing their "socialist" agenda horribly because anything remotely related to communism is taught to be the worst thing next to Hitler in school. I graduated 3 years ago, so it's not like I'm old or anything. The whole motto of high school is graduate, so you can go onto college, get a degree and maybe one day you'll be rich. That's rather UN-communistic.
This global government is communist, America will conform.
Yeah, sure, that's why corporations rule the wold, capitalist and fascist corporations. The global government plan is to bring back feudalism.
edit on 5-9-2012 by RealSpoke because: (no reason given)
“we are told not to look into this, it’s pretty well communicated if you research into giants or other races they will end your career immediately, we are told to say it’s all 1800’s media fraud regardless of the evidence, if you ask questions you’ll be working at McDonalds tomorrow”.
"...scientists who see an intelligent force at work in nature are being fired from their jobs. ...mention "intelligent design" today and your career is over. Why are "secularists" so afraid of intelligent design?
Because they're funded by the Illuminati, (Rockefellers, Rothschilds etc.) who are Satanists. Satanists fear that acceptance of this "intelligence" will interfere with the makeover they're giving humanity. They think they are God.
Science - The Illuminati Religion and Mind Control Tool for the Masses
Super Trailer
Full Movie
"The model of human prehistory built-up by scholars over the past two centuries is sadly and completely wrong, and a deliberate tool of disinformation and mind control. ...they demonstrate a systematic destruction of proofs that show another reality than that the official story. Falsifications and even destruction of such proofs has been common for more than two hundred years." LINK
“Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?" ~ George H.W. Bush
If you still are not convinced that America is brainwashing your children, Hitler style, then click on this and watch all eight video clips of your school children and teachers in action.
Brainwashing of American Students
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."
Students in the United States are taught that Christopher Columbus discovered America and proved that the earth was round (not true); they are not taught that Columbus was a genocidal manic (true). Institutionalized racism and ethnocentrism is all but ignored in history class, Native Americans are demonized as savages (they weren't) and colonists (who were savages) are celebrated as civilized co-existers. (The reason the Pilgrims in New England had such bountiful crops is because all the Native Americans who planted them had either died from European-borne plague or had fled in fear of plague, which John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, called "miraculous.")
Students are taught that Albert Einstein failed his math class (he didn't, and was, in fact, a mathematical prodigy by the age of 12). They learn that Isaac Newton was hit on the head by a falling apple and "discovered" gravity (not true), Benjamin Franklin flew a kite in a storm and "discovered" electricity (also not true), and that George Washington chopped down his father's prized cherry-tree and then didn't lie about doing it. (This is a fairy tale created by a man named Mason Locke "Parson" Weems)
Who's Really Brainwashing Our Children
Originally posted by OldSchoolMom
reply to post by optimus primal
Forgive me if this was already asked, as I want to ask this before i read past your OP so that I'm not influenced by other posters' opinions. What was the word that supposedly made this other person's brain "hiccup"? If we're to take it as any proof that americans are being programmed we have to know the word. For all we know she just had no idea what the word meant. Not everyone shares the same level of understanding in word definitions. As for the rest of your OP, it's intriguing I'll give you that. Lot of information. I just don't see how effective such a thing could be with the massive access to information that is available in this day and age.
No, it was a way I described the moment in the conversation. It was not the nicest way to describe it but, I thought it would be best to describe it the way I saw it so people hopefully could see my frustration during the conversation if that makes sense. That is what I meant like you describe, all of the sudden there was what appeared to be like a disconnect, like when you go into the kitchen to retrieve something but forget what you went into the kitchen for.
As far as effective, I think your right... there is a problem for "the controllers" with the internet being available to all, people are looking for answers. This is causing a problem too. I believe I heard Obama some time back say something about this issue too.... that was shocking to some.... Something about having too much information may not be good? I am sorry, I can't remember his exact words...maybe someone can find it, it was telling. It was near the time congress was trying to put some restrictions on controversial websites I think (sorry, My memory in respect to time just isn't good).
You make a good point, I think it is critical that everyone not permit government to make any restrictions in regards to the internet, regardless of the excuses they give.... give them an inch...well you know....
I was speaking with a friend about a controversial issue, all of the sudden she hiccuped and it appeared as if her brain reset. I was astonished...did I just witness that? Let me rephrase this, the moment I said a particular word her brain ceased like an engine ceases in a car and the conversation stopped, took a turn..however you want to say it, it was over. Wow..(caught my interest) my immediate reaction was to play with this curious phenomena because I am compelled to understand things. So I tried again, this time instead of using THAT particular word, I replaced it with a synonym. This time using the synonym instead, our conversation got further and we were able to get just a little closer to understanding each other. How is it that this woman's brain misfired when I used one word but not when I used another word with basically the same meaning? I had to do some research, because we have a problem when there is something disrupting our conversation from getting into any depth AND because of it creating a communication barrier. How can we understand each other if we can't even get to the root cause of an issue? What I learned is people are being conditioned, trained... like an animal who will salivate at the sound of a bell (trigger) because he thinks there is a treat coming for him to enjoy in the near future. Like the "1" and "0" (stop and go) in a computer program.
I think it's interesting, possibly telling, that somebody could rationalise a friend's absence seizure (or similar "zone-out") as a "brain reset" caused by a control word. My first reaction would have been to ask my friend if I was boring them, and apologise for waffling. Although I'm not one to cast aspersions, I would say your reaction to the event is close to delusional.
As for the dumbing down of America, well, is that really happening? I doubt actual facts would substantiate that conjecture. The US has a 99% literacy rate in over 15's. Among the country's adult population, over 85 percent have completed high school and 27 percent have received a bachelor's degree or higher. I would postulate your sacking as a teacher has left unhealed baggage. To you, the school system has become some nefarious perversion that is poisoning the minds of our children. It really isn't the case.
Originally posted by rickymouse
reply to post by optimus primal
Knowledge of words does not make you smarter, it makes you more knowledgeable. Maybe you should self analyze. I am not even going to bother looking up that word, I don't need to know it. I probably know ten words that mean the same thing if used in a sentence. Learning more and more words just makes you appear more intelligence, it is not an indicator of true intelligence. Your coworkers probably looked at you strangely for using a word in the wrong situation. Using language appropriate to the situation is the wise thing to do.