This is the result of an education system that has been foisted on this nation and its been that way since Rockefeller and Carnegie pulled American farmers into their factories in the early 1900s. In 1902, John D. Rockefeller created the General Education Board at the ultimate cost of $129 million. The GEB provided major funding for schools across the nation and was very influential in shaping the current school system. As Rockefeller put it, “I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers.”
You see, the aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to suppress dissent and originality. Public education does not encourage critical thinking nor does it foster imagination. It does not teach emotional intelligence. It does not encourage the pupils to work together to solve problems. It does not seek out and help nurture an individual’s innate skills and abilities. It just gives you tasks. Intelligent citizens are difficult to govern. https://www.jetsetmag.com/exclusive/business/nation-workers-public-education-dummying-labor-force/
Albert Einstein said, “Never confuse education with intelligence.”
Their system created me and it took me 30 years to correct the damage done to my intelligence. I've got a long way to go still.
We all do.
https://nickitruesdell.com/it-does-not-take-twelve-years-to-educate-a-child/?fbclid=IwAR0_iZWeBN2hk1PV6KsY0CCUPsUuA6NZF2m9ieGfyIhXqHpruQ0qkZMbYTw
Great read. Thank you. From that:
In our dreams…people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. 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 men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, educators, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have ample supply. The task we set before ourselves is very simple…we will organize children…and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.”
(From the first mission statement of Rockefeller’s General Education Board in a document called Occasional Letter Number One, 1906)
That article is spot on. Kids should be done with their schooling by 16, including "college."
Worth a read...
Same with The ockefeller Medicine and Rockefeller Science.
The Rockefellers are now part of Climate Change too.
The Underground History of American Education, Volume I: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling by John Taylor Gatto
Covers the entire history of U.S. public schooling.