Real education must ultimately be limited to men
who insist on knowingthe rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Loomis Pound (1885-1972) U.S. poet.
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The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains. The superior teacher
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"You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe."
"You take the
red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I"ll show
you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."
"The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb.
This
enables it to sway the emotions of the masses."
Albert Einstein
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"In our dream, we have limitless
resources, and the people yield themselves with perfect
docility to our molding hand. The present educational
conventions fade from our minds; and, unhampered by
tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and
responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people or
any of their children into philosophers or men of learning
or science. We are not to raise up from among them authors,
orators, poets, or men of letters. We shall not search for
embryo great artists, painters, musicians. Nor will we
cherish even the humbler ambition to raise up from among
them lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of
whom we now have ample supply." |
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"The economic well-being of the nation depends on the
presence of a large number of men who are content to labor
hard all day long. Because men are naturally lazy they will
not work unless forced by necessity to do so. The education
of the poor threatens to rob the nation of their
productivity... Every hour those poor people spend at their
books is so much time lost to society. Going to school in
comparison to working is idleness." Bernard de Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees, 1714 (the book which Adam Smith used as the basis of his 1776 Wealth of Nations, the capitalist Bible) |
The Subversion of Education in America
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The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher
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its original logic: to regulate the poor. Since the 1920s the growth of
the well-articulated school bureaucracy, and the less visible growth of
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The "Fix" That's Destroying Education In America
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private foundations, both working hand-in-hand with the Education
Establishment headquartered in the federal Department of Education and
staffed by the National Education Association (NEA).
These forces have combined with psychologists, huge textbook publishers,
teacher colleges, the healthcare profession, government bureaucrats, big
corporations, pharmaceutical companies and social workers to invade
local school boards, classrooms and private homes in the name of
"fixing" education. More
The Non-Education System of The United States
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