Greetings good citizen, politicians have been promising to 'fix' our badly broken education system for decades...does ANYONE think they have A.) succeeded or B.) screwed it up worse
You won't even get a vote on the 'true cause' of the failure to reform education, everybody knows education is (and always has been) highly politicized.
MOST of you are ignorant of just HOW politicized the education process is ( only party loyalists are permitted to approve curriculum REGARDLESS of whether they have the credentials to do so! [I'm looking at you Betsy De Vos!]
How do totally unqualified politicians (some of who are profoundly STUPID) get to decide what our youth are taught?
Their (the politician's) primary job is to protect the personal interests of their campaign contributors, the public weal be damned!
Yes good citizen, we live among the hopelessly stupid because people with more MONEY than they know what to do with object to pretty much anything that would serve to 'educate' the consumer/producer/prey.
Every single one of us was told we were being taught the 'new way' and hasn't that failure produced a focus not on getting the correct answer but obeying the rules to produce the desired result...[even if it was 'incorrect'.]
We all wonder if teachers are morons but no, If a teacher goes 'off script' (don't teach to the curriculum) and they'll be fired...let us never forget who, precisely, establishes what is permissible to teach in school...period. Private schools have 'latitude' that public schools aren't given but it's not enough to make a difference. If you want a 'real' education the ONLY way to get it is to first prove your loyalty and commitment to the capitalist agenda.
But I digress.
How many times (today) have you read a post opining they should teach kids basic 'life skills' in school...since that is supposedly what school is 'for', to produce 'educated citizens'.
Problem is if they teach you to 'think' it encourages questions that the overlords aren't prepared to deal with. If you were bored out of your tits in school, that was no accident.
The teachers? They (literally) can't complain. They plow the same field over and over again for a paycheck, just like (almost) everybody else.
They even have to watch their innuendos because if their (dumber, kool-aid drinking) fellow teachers catch them letting their brighter students in on the scam, they will never achieve 'tenure' [something they are trying to do away with anyway.]
Yeah, not a day goes by when the majority of us don't stumble upon the 'gaps' in our education...and some of us even marvel as to why we weren't taught something so basic in school only to brush it off because school was a long time ago and we are glad to see it in our rear view mirror.
That said it seems to NEVER occur to us to question the politicians that run on 'educational reform' because, in our own experience, it has NEVER been effective.
Why do we let this alleged incompetence slide? If YOU were this unreliable they'd can you in a heartbeat...but that's because all your public education prepared you for was a 'moron job' (literally) anyone could do.
But isn't that the 'world of work' in a nutshell?
Understand, the same goes for TEACHING!
You WEREN'T taught to THINK, you were taught NOT TO QUESTION!
How humiliating to realize that if a teacher answered your question with a 'you'll figure it out' they were thinking 'when pigs fly!' because even they realize the job isn't to teach you to think, it is to leave you on your own to answer questions, knowing if you ever did 'figure it out, you'd find yourself in the minority, unable to do anything about it.
Don't think teachers can be 'calculating'? If you slip up you won't be a teacher long and if you do get a can tied to your ass you'd best keep your yap shut because the private sector want's 'team players' and any prospective employer will be told that description doesn't match your 'unstable personality'.
Oh yeah, they know how to deal with loose cannons. Where do you think the Kevin Bacon game came from? [Again, only the cognizant will see the connection here.]
You are supposed to shrug off the notion that not only are there things you'll never know for a fact and that nobody is going to tell you if your suspicions are correct either...because in 99% of cases they don't know either!
Yeah, the limits of (concrete) knowledge are disturbingly narrow and you have to wonder why that is.
Einstein was being generous when he revealed the average person knows one tenth of a millionth of a percent of nothing.
Which should give you a clue to how much of what you've been taught is BULLSHIT...but only the cognizant can successfully parse what he was actually telling us.
Much of what you take for granted is (utter) bullshit [Spirit in the sky anyone?]
We are faced with what is more wretched, nobody is interested in what you have to say or that most people are convinced there is nothing anyone out there has to teach them?
We are neck deep in politicized stupid and nobody sees anything wrong with this.
Dig your own grave then pull the dirt in after you.
Not what to think but why you never succeed at anything...
Gegner
You won't even get a vote on the 'true cause' of the failure to reform education, everybody knows education is (and always has been) highly politicized.
MOST of you are ignorant of just HOW politicized the education process is ( only party loyalists are permitted to approve curriculum REGARDLESS of whether they have the credentials to do so! [I'm looking at you Betsy De Vos!]
How do totally unqualified politicians (some of who are profoundly STUPID) get to decide what our youth are taught?
Their (the politician's) primary job is to protect the personal interests of their campaign contributors, the public weal be damned!
Yes good citizen, we live among the hopelessly stupid because people with more MONEY than they know what to do with object to pretty much anything that would serve to 'educate' the consumer/producer/prey.
Every single one of us was told we were being taught the 'new way' and hasn't that failure produced a focus not on getting the correct answer but obeying the rules to produce the desired result...[even if it was 'incorrect'.]
We all wonder if teachers are morons but no, If a teacher goes 'off script' (don't teach to the curriculum) and they'll be fired...let us never forget who, precisely, establishes what is permissible to teach in school...period. Private schools have 'latitude' that public schools aren't given but it's not enough to make a difference. If you want a 'real' education the ONLY way to get it is to first prove your loyalty and commitment to the capitalist agenda.
But I digress.
How many times (today) have you read a post opining they should teach kids basic 'life skills' in school...since that is supposedly what school is 'for', to produce 'educated citizens'.
Problem is if they teach you to 'think' it encourages questions that the overlords aren't prepared to deal with. If you were bored out of your tits in school, that was no accident.
The teachers? They (literally) can't complain. They plow the same field over and over again for a paycheck, just like (almost) everybody else.
They even have to watch their innuendos because if their (dumber, kool-aid drinking) fellow teachers catch them letting their brighter students in on the scam, they will never achieve 'tenure' [something they are trying to do away with anyway.]
Yeah, not a day goes by when the majority of us don't stumble upon the 'gaps' in our education...and some of us even marvel as to why we weren't taught something so basic in school only to brush it off because school was a long time ago and we are glad to see it in our rear view mirror.
That said it seems to NEVER occur to us to question the politicians that run on 'educational reform' because, in our own experience, it has NEVER been effective.
Why do we let this alleged incompetence slide? If YOU were this unreliable they'd can you in a heartbeat...but that's because all your public education prepared you for was a 'moron job' (literally) anyone could do.
But isn't that the 'world of work' in a nutshell?
Understand, the same goes for TEACHING!
You WEREN'T taught to THINK, you were taught NOT TO QUESTION!
How humiliating to realize that if a teacher answered your question with a 'you'll figure it out' they were thinking 'when pigs fly!' because even they realize the job isn't to teach you to think, it is to leave you on your own to answer questions, knowing if you ever did 'figure it out, you'd find yourself in the minority, unable to do anything about it.
Don't think teachers can be 'calculating'? If you slip up you won't be a teacher long and if you do get a can tied to your ass you'd best keep your yap shut because the private sector want's 'team players' and any prospective employer will be told that description doesn't match your 'unstable personality'.
Oh yeah, they know how to deal with loose cannons. Where do you think the Kevin Bacon game came from? [Again, only the cognizant will see the connection here.]
You are supposed to shrug off the notion that not only are there things you'll never know for a fact and that nobody is going to tell you if your suspicions are correct either...because in 99% of cases they don't know either!
Yeah, the limits of (concrete) knowledge are disturbingly narrow and you have to wonder why that is.
Einstein was being generous when he revealed the average person knows one tenth of a millionth of a percent of nothing.
Which should give you a clue to how much of what you've been taught is BULLSHIT...but only the cognizant can successfully parse what he was actually telling us.
Much of what you take for granted is (utter) bullshit [Spirit in the sky anyone?]
We are faced with what is more wretched, nobody is interested in what you have to say or that most people are convinced there is nothing anyone out there has to teach them?
We are neck deep in politicized stupid and nobody sees anything wrong with this.
Dig your own grave then pull the dirt in after you.
Not what to think but why you never succeed at anything...
Gegner
How many times (today) have you read a post opining they should teach kids basic 'life skills' in school...since that is supposedly what school is 'for', to produce 'educated citizens'.
ReplyDeleteTHink they will EVER fix public education?
Not what to think but why you never succeed at anything...
ReplyDeleteHow do totally unqualified politicians (some of who are profoundly STUPID) get to decide what our youth are taught?
ReplyDeleteWhy do you suppose the college educated believe Trump is a 'self made man' when he is actually a 'trust fund baby' who was born with what he has?
That said it seems to NEVER occur to us to question the politicians that run on 'educational reform' because, in our own experience, it has NEVER been effective.
ReplyDeleteWe are neck deep in politicized stupid and nobody sees anything wrong with this.
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