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Is America's Public Education System Broken by Design?
By Joseph McBrennan
Founder's Note: Today we once again turn to our good friend and fellow Liberty seeker Joey. He's a good man to know. For more of his contributions, check out his author page in the Manward archives here.
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Rooster's Crow
We shared a sad statistic in our most recent Manward Bulletin. According to a new survey, 50% of millennials say they'd prefer to live under socialist or communist rule. But that's not even the worst of it. A whopping 71% of folks polled were unable to identify the proper definition of communism. If we needed another sign that our education system is broken, this would be it.
You don't often hear folks say America's public education system is a success. But in truth, it's succeeded beyond its designers' wildest dreams.
In almost every major metropolitan area, graduation rates are around 50%. And the kids who actually graduate from the public school cauldron can barely read, write or perform simple math calculations.
According to state testing data, for example, 13 Baltimore high schools produced zero students proficient in math.
Nationwide, 1 in 6 high school students establishes even a baseline of financial literacy.
But that's a half-empty sort of outlook...
It's a Jobs Program
You see, despite being our nation's single greatest jobs program, our education system was never intended to create thinking individuals.
You can't blame the teachers either. Not only are they not allowed to discipline students, but they are so hamstrung by the system that actually educating is nearly impossible.
Teachers have been forced into a situation where their job is little more than babysitting. So it's no surprise that the product they are hired to create - educated students - never materializes.
But that's the real "success" our nation's schools produce: generation after generation of indoctrinated people.
For proof, look no further than the nearest college campus. There you'll find throngs of brainwashed young adults, trapped into worshipping the state as their god and following every tenet of political correctness.
Think I'm exaggerating? Here's an excerpt from the resignation letter of Chad Vegas, a former elected member of the Bakersfield, California, school board:
The State and Federal governments have co-opted your local schools. They mean to indoctrinate your children in their radical secularism... I simply can't be part of enforcing that.
Hidden Agenda
Like I said, the U.S. public school system has been quite successful in its intended, yet hidden, mission.
The purpose was never to educate the masses. No, the purpose, from its earliest conceptions, was to create a class of people that was easily controlled and manipulated.
I recognize a statement like that sounds like conspiracy theory. However, the history of U.S. education overwhelmingly supports this notion: There was (and still is) a deliberate effort to build a system not intended to educate but to create citizenry enslaved to the state.
It has been a well-orchestrated, insidious plan spanning more than a century.
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In 1909, four years before he became our 28th president, Woodrow Wilson made a speech to the New York City Teachers Association. In it, he said...
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forgo the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
Wilson wasn't alone in his pursuit of segregating education between the rulers and working-class subjects. Our ruling elite then, and now, has been working diligently to create a workforce to serve, not think.
The following Orwellian quote from John D. Rockefeller in 1906 sickens me in its foreshadowing of our current system.
In our dreams... people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present education conventions (intellectual and character education) 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 science.
The evidence is damning. Yet among skeptics, it begs the question... "Why?"
Why would any nation deliberately dumb down its population?
The short answer is fear. The great political satirist, H.L. Mencken, summed it up when he wrote...
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable.
Dishonest... insane... intolerable. Looking at our current crop of political elites, can you really argue with any of those descriptors?
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