| Geesh, Impenitent, I love that book.
I agree the dumbing down is terrible. I attended private school and the curriculum was very different than public school. I think the issue is that our youth are trained to be blue collar for the most part. It does seem to reek of discrimination. If you cannot afford private school, or college then your children seem destined to get the bare minimum in education as well as career.
That said, parents and teachers should encourage students to thirst for knowledge and not just get by. Libraries, and now the internet, have more information than was ever available before. It is up to society to demand better schools and better public education. The teachers unions are not to blame for what the school boards decide to teach on the local or state level.
Mook, you are talking about the education system in the US. We seem to have one of the worst in the industrialized world--it is shameful. The powers that be do not want an intellectual majority.
Ever notice that the first to speak out against the government are the educated?
Ever notice the first to scream patriotism are the uneducated?
A blindly religious and/or uneducated population is the easiest to dupe. |