What is it about America that makes the rest of the world view us with general disdain?
Why do America's students consistantly rank 14th-16th in the world despite the fact that we spend almost 3 times more per student (about $12,000 a yer) than our closest competitor ($4300 per year, Japan)?
The answer to these and many other questions can be found in the genesis of our forced public education system.
The Purpose Behind Forced Education
The education system we have in the United States is not designed to teach, well at least not to diseminate knowledge and understanding anyhow. No indeed the goal of our system is quite the opposite. Our system is designed to instill in our nation's youth an understanding that they are merely cogs in a machine to be controlled and manipulated by those that are deemed "experts".
This system was originally designed by (not directly but at the behest of) industrialists like Carnegie, Ford, JP Morgan and Rockefeller with a few goals in mind.
Goal 1) To create a massive underclass so zombified that it could more easily tolerate the tedious and maddening jobs that the industrial revolution needed filled. When Henry Ford first opened his assembly-line manufacturing facility, he had a turnover rate of 83%. So borring and tedious was this occupation that simple dirt farmers could not stand the monotony.
Goal 2) To instill an understanding in you that you are nothing more than a subordinate within a massive pecking order. That your personal value comes from your willingness and ability to complete appointed tasks to the exact specifications of your "teacher"
Goal 3) To break down the natural sense of curiosity that all humans are born with.
If at this point you're still adversarial, and do not relate to what I'm saying then please consider the following.
68% of college freshman cannot name the three branches of government that rule them.
74% cannot name 3 freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.
62% are not able to lable 7 countries on a map with no names printed on it.
79% cannot tell you how much a jar of peanut butter that costs $1.99 would cost if you were getting 20% off.
A staggering 86% have never read a novel of their own accord.
92% have no idea who invented the telephone, and about the same number can't tell you who was the first to achieve heavier than air flight.
With numbers like this, can anyone, with a straight face, say that we have an "education" system at all?
Our system is designed to keep us constantly in need of something entertaining from one moment to the next. It is designed to keep us purchasing goods and services we don't really need to validate our existance and sustain the economy.
In 19th Century America, with a population of just over 20 million, authors like Oliver Wendell Holms could count on selling 8 million copies of their books. At this golden age in Americas history after the Civil War there was a literacy rate of nearly 98%. When WWII started the Armed Services gave all recruits a basic literacy test to see if the recruit could read basic things such as maps, street signs, saftey instructions etc. deemed necessary for survival. 98% of these men passed. By the time the Vietnam War rolled around, 72% of whites passed and only 54% of blacks did. When the general in charge decided that these men must have been faking it to avoid service he dispatched a commision to investigate, the commision found that indeed these men were illeterate.
It's been said that you can find statistics to paint whatever picture you like so let me draw this out another way. Can you deny that America is utterly obsessed with nice cars, fancy clothes and shoes, slick nic-nacs, and mind-mumbingly simplistic television? Can anyone deny that our culture is virtually devoid of highly intellectual debate and critical thinking?
Wake up America. You have been trapped in what amounts to a version of "The Matrix". Mere battery cells fuling the agenda of a powerful elite that is taking away liberties from all of us becasue we are too ignorant and docile to see it happening.
An Orwellian nightmare is truely in the works. From the Socialist left wing we get the "thought police" ready to get you fired and sue you for everything you're worth for so much as uttering someting that's not PC in a public place. Attempting to remove arms from the hands of the citizens to ensure that there can never be a popular uprising against the powerful elite again. Taking more and more of your sweat and toil from you to support the idea that we must all be the same androgenous citizen. Supplanting the rights of the property owners in the name of "environmentalism" in what is really yet another way to show the little man that the government is boss.
From the Facist right wing we get an arbitrary moral code that has imprisoned millions of innocent people in a unwinnable war against drugs. Humiliated and imprisoned people for participating in the oldest business exchange in human history, prostitution. Hampered the progress of science and understanding in a blind fear that they will loose their religious stranglehold on so many of the laws of this secular nation.
As for me my friends, I will not accept the destruction of freedom no matter what banner it flies under. The complete dismantlement of the public school system is the only choice we have for stopping Orwell's nightmare from becoming a reality.
"Any man that would trade liberty away for security deserves neither." -Thomas Jefferson