The dangerousness of our public schools to our free will
Posted by Non_mooching_artist 11 years, 6 months ago to Politics
Tie this in with doctors asking if there are guns in your home. Scare tactics through ignorance. We're back in the U.S.S.R.
I am concerned abut this, and many other things public "schools" do, but one thing that really bothers me seems minor: the bell. Have you been in "schools" when the bell rings and the kids just get up, gather their stuff, and walk out? They're conditioned - not only to "move to the next station when you hear the bell" but also they "know" that all work happens in 45-minute or 55-minute time periods; all learning stops when the bell rings, and the person who is supposed to be in charge of the classroom is not really in charge, because she's governed by the bell, too.
I sometimes think that no one could be smart enough to design something so awful and evil, and I sometimes am afraid that I'll meet the person [or the Committee] that DID.
There is not one single thing of value that public schools [and most private ones, especially "core learning" schools] do for children and/or their parents. Walk away from them, let them fall into ruins, and sow salt on the sites as an object lesson: nothing was growing there anyway.
"Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty.
But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.
And your education! Is not that also social, and determined by the social conditions under which you educate, by the intervention, direct or indirect, of society, by means of schools, etc.? The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.
The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parent and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the more, by the action of Modern Industry, all family ties among the proletarians are torn asunder, and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labour."
To me, this speaks volumes about the need for privately owned for profit schools and a reason to get the govt out of education.
Amen!
But we also have to get the unions out of the mix for any success, since the unions are dependent upon that very same government for their validity. We need teachers, and administrators, with no political markers to pay off....
The NEA, John Dewey, and the teacher's union are just different types of the same cancer
My own strike was to deny them my talents and my brains. Sometimes I regret it, just for the money, but only for a fraction of a second. Yes, my sister has a pension. I, however, can look myself in the eye when I look in the mirror.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHD5nd3QL...
Hitler once said that he wouldn't argue with men who disagreed with him because their children were indoctrinated, so such men were meaningless.
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich taught me as much about America as Atlas and Fountainhead together. It's not a replacement, but certainly a complement.