We Don’t Need No Education
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Editor’s Note: George Carlin makes excellent points. While I agree that govt. schools are the problem, I’m not an advocate of “school choice,” and vouchers. The problem is that the real owners of this country, the banksters, globalists, etc., make money off the backs of children, the elderly, prisoners, and slave-wage workers. Get rid of the monopoly money. That’s the first step to correct all of the planet’s problems. Check out A Journey to Freedom for our preferred solution.
Visit http://www.TheCartelMovie.com for more info. A feature-length documentary about our urgent national need for school choice, “The Cartel” shows us our failing educational system like we’ve never seen it before.
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In this hard-hitting film by reporter and news anchor Bob Bowdon, “The Cartel” exposes the corruption, waste, and intimidation in our nations public schools. Arguing that our public school system wastes billions of dollars each year, while our children learn less and less, “The Cartel” makes a compelling case for far-reaching and immediate reform centered on school choice.
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School Sucks In my 10+ years of teaching, “school sucks” is perhaps the most common phrase I’ve heard students use to describe their feelings about public education. But this seemingly bitter and reductive slogan is actually quite clever. When taken literally, “school sucks” is perhaps the most accurate and astute synopsis of the system I’ve ever heard. Here’s why…
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The twelve-year process of an American public education has a dramatic effect on the mind of a child. When we first enter school at age six, many of our best personal attributes are already in place. We are curious, innovative, unique, creative and hopeful in ways that we will rarely be able to replicate throughout the rest of our lives. But over time, school sucks those essential attributes out of too many of us…and replaces them with predictability, obedience and apathy.
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The public school system sucks off the productive capacity of hard-working people. The system is coercively funded through taxation. In other words, whether public education succeeds or fails (spoiler alert: it fails) at providing real education to the public, the cost goes up every year. There are no refunds.
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John Taylor Gatto released recently his latest book, Weapons of Mass Instruction. Gatto, a former New York State “Teacher of the Year” (1991), is a critic of state education and compulsory schooling in general: “When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.”
Gatto laid out his comprehensive critical analysis of the current education system in his previous book The Underground History of American Education (free online edition). He contends that the current education system was set up from the start to serve business and government interests by isolating children from the real world. “Only then could the necessary training in boredom and bewilderment begin. Such training is necessary to produce dependable consumers and dependent citizens who would always look for a teacher to tell them what to do in later life, even if that teacher was an ad man or television anchor.” In a recent interview he summarized how he got started as a teacher, why he left the profession, why the current education system is a failure, and offers solutions to the problem.Fast Tube by Casper
The Purpose of Compulsory Education is to Indoctrinate the Sheeple
Gatto is not alone in his crusade against compulsory schooling. A few, among the many worth mentioning, are: Grace Llewellyn author of The Teenage Liberation Handbook, sociology professor Stanley Aronowitz author of Against Schooling, environmentalist Derrick Jensen author of Walking on Water, Austrian philosopher Ivan Illich author of Deschooling Society, German philosopher Max Stirner author of The False Principle of our Education, and even Albert Einstein who wrote in his autobiographical notes:
“It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wreck and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry, especially if the food, handed out under such coercion, were to be selected accordingly.”
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Charlotte Iserbyt is the consummate whistleblower! Iserbyt served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education, during the first Reagan Administration, where she first blew the whistle on a major technology initiative which would control curriculum in America’s classrooms.
Iserbyt is a former school board director in Camden, Maine and was co-founder and research analyst of Guardians of Education for Maine (GEM) from 1978 to 2000.
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She has also served in the American Red Cross on Guam and Japan during the Korean War, and in the United States Foreign Service in Belgium and in the Republic of South Africa. Iserbyt is a speaker and writer, best known for her 1985 booklet Back to Basics Reform or OBE: Skinnerian International Curriculum and her 1989 pamphlet Soviets in the Classroom: America’s Latest Education Fad which covered the details of the U.S.-Soviet and Carnegie-Soviet Education Agreements which remain in effect to this day. She is a freelance writer and has had articles published in Human Events, The Washington Times, The Bangor Daily News, and included in the record of Congressional hearings. Here’s a great list of PDFs from Charlotte’s site.
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