| Subject: The Dumbing Down of America IV: The saga continues |
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Ned Depew
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Date Posted: 10:17:31 04/20/12 Fri
Does public education actually make people stupider? A recent informational poll showed that people who watched Fox News were actually worse-informed and believed more false stories than those who got their news from other sources, and even than those who didn't read newspapers or watch TV news, and tried to pay no attention to the news at all. So, it can be done...
Sadly, as part of their agenda, the ruling oligarchs have successfully promoted an obedience and standardized-testing-heavy model of "education," free to promote mythology as equivalent to scientific theory, withhold essential information and stifle free debate, that really DOES make people stupid.
That is in fact their goal. It's the principle reason "Civics" classes, that actually taught citizens to look at their government and see how it worked are an artifact of the past. Today's "political leaders" don't want citizens to look too closely at what they are doing and certainly don't want them to understand how to take control of the system.
If you don't teach people what their rights are, they won't miss them when you take them away. If you teach them in the authoritarian, competitive, hierarchical context of American public education, they'll get the message that their contemporaries are their competitors, not their friends, that authority comes from above, and that you acquiesce to it without question.
As Jerry Farber pointed out in his seminal pamphlet in the 1960s,"You may not remember the content you are taught in high school, but you will remember that when the teacher says to shut up and sit down, you shut up and sit down."
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