Education and Propaganda

Lance Sjogren observes:

I reply:

In early childhood education the schools teach submission to authority and blind acceptance of what they say because kids are essentially barbarians and need to be constrained - and the only way to teach them is by getting them to submit - and to accept what the teacher and their textbooks are saying. So there is a basic foundation laid that promotes obedience and belief.

This is supposed to change in later years as kids become more mature and capable of thinking for themselves, but the delaying of adulthood (and I suspect that is purposeful by at least some of the elite intellectual class) means high school kids aren't learning to think for themselves either as this tool of early childhood education continues.

 Now it's employed in colleges. I think the rank-and-file in the educational system don't understand what they are doing, they just follow orders like the kids. It's how this is taught.

I had an argument on Facebook with a girl I know who is a school teacher and she advised me to "watch the news" as if I were some wayward student. I retorted "I don't WATCH the news, I read multiple news sources." She had no reply; she was used to having authority over her kids and telling them to consult the "experts" but at what point are experts more knowledgeable than the rest of us? The goal of education used to be to make us all experts and so not need them.

Not so now; now the educrats want to hold their positions as some sort of high priests or priestesses. And of course this plays into the hands of the Left who infiltrated education long ago. John Dewey was such a radical and a prime example of how the Left did it. My friend Daren Jonescu wrote an e-book you can download for free about the radicalization of education.

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