Most people feel that education is only bad because of it's deficiencies. It's costs. Teachers are under paid. Under appreciated. Not enough students are in school. Programs are slashed. The arguements are never-ending. The fact that the defense budget dwarfs the education budget by 100x (400 billion versus 4 billion).
The vileness of this system is far deeper than meets the eye.
Educational systems as a whole, have a longer, more sordid history than we know. Or are even told of. For as long as human history can record, class wars, power struggle and slavery have been present. Some minority, some elite group, have long sought to command a few "animals." To control the masses. It is deemed, by some "right" that they are the gifted few, those who should control the other 95% destiny. In school, because most training is not for independent thought, you're taught to be DEPENDENT on someone. A teacher. The principal. Your parents. The answer key. Within you, the answer do not lie and wait. Oh no! It's OUTSIDE of you you must seek comfort and shelter. And this is just the beginning....
Millenia ago, education was nil. The bible was not even available for anyone other than clergy. People had to take the word of GOD from those of the clergy and priests, and that was where their powers began. But more than that, it was deemed that without structure, without control, everyone was a threat. If they didn't fall-in line, elimate them. Play by the rules or perish. This was the game.
The first emergence of America gives way to this. America was merely a colonial offshoot of England. We were to build the wealth of Europe. But we hated taxation without representation. We hated being told what to do so far away. We hated having so much opportunity and squandering it being subversive to a continent thousands of miles away. So we revolted. We overthrew their rule and risked life for freedom. And we won.
So we think...
Can you see where being outside the crowd? Being outside the CROWD WITH POWER and CLOUT is dangerous? Education came along to solve this. Any system will. System by and large serve to bring order and process. Input. Output. In goes the material, out goes the product. Our system in America is no different, it's only progressing further and further along a time line. Now College is included in this machine.
Independent thought IS NOT, I repeat NOT, what education is. You go to a set curriculum. Art is on the back burner. No such trades are taught, save a few technical schools. Everything is dumbed down to the lowest common denominator. Rankings are given to students, so that over their lifetime, it is believed that THIS is all they're capable of.
If you're a "D" student, you must ALWAYS be a D student. You can never be a D here, and an A there. You are this, and that's it. So your income, your tastes, your choices, your women, ALL should match the standards of a "D' student. See how vicious this is?
What's worse, the system spills into your home life. Teachers, angered at your lack of progress, call teacher-parent conferences to publicize your progress, or lack there of. Punishment ensues, and so does the horrific spiral toward mediocrity. The system succeeds.
Students learn set course loads, at a slugs pace, by a testing method that only embraces ONE FORM of learning and ONE form of testing. Parents have no say in the teachers who are hired. Teachers can bring their bad emotional background, their prejudices, their likes and dislikes to bear upon impressionable youths and teens. They are simply their as pawns of a curriculum. Here's the prospectus, we will follow this until the end of the year. End game.
Tell me...when you read a book or take a course, how long does it take to learn the courseload? A day? A week? A month? Learning is not and never is AT YOUR OWN pace.
Sidebar: I recall math when i was younger. I WAS AWFUL. Grounded at it. Punished. Teacher-parent conferences. The whole shiban. I feared math class. Nobody could help. It just never clicked, and were I not toucher to endure the mental slings of youth and the imminent punishment I might be a shell of a man. And then, one day, I GOT IT!!! It clicked. I could do it in my head. Screw the calculator. BANG. I owned math. And then science. And for what price did I pay the insult, the punishment, and the humiliation all for the sake of numbers??
You see, it is a system. It's a system created to keep the belief that knowledge is power. Oh it is POWER. But not public knowledge. For what taxpayers pay teachers to enslave their children emotionally, you could get at 1/100 the price from Barnes and Noble over their education careers.
And this, ladies and gentleman, is where everybody's lives becomes wound up or unwind. It's MEANT to keep people mentally enslaved. It's meant to dumb us down. To keep us looking for jobs. To NOT rise above where we are, except for a minor few who buck the trend.
The most valuable courses which would bring young wealth and riches are NEVER taught. Why is this? Some might say because "English is fundamental." Well after you can read and write, I say math is equally fundamental. And not just A, S, M, or D, but knowing checks and balance, investing, and so forth. Read old books like the Baron Son or Richest Man in Babylon and you'll see people were learning SKILLS THAT WOULD MAKE THEM INDENDEPENT THINKERS and PEOPLE WHO COULD INDEPENDENTLY SURVIVE.
That WAS the nature of original schools. Teachers were rarely if ever paid. They mostly volunteered. Thought was more abstract, more open to debate. There was no rigidity of course load. Thinking was an open forum. It wasn't DANGEROUS to buck a trend, try a new style. IT WAS LEARNING, not EDUCATION. Education is the IMPLANTATION of thoughts, concepts, and so forth. LEARNING is understanding, acceptance, application.
How does this matter here? Now? Because, consider that education itself, while basic and fundamental, also creates different social results in all us. All us are the products of our environment filtered through our egos, perceptions, beliefs, and understanding. The same person from a broken home who loses heart, MAY also be the same person who seeks to rise ABOVE his surroundings. See any person who's made it out of the Ghetto, or ask any disadvantaged friend. I have a few.
And yet, most people are trying to ADD all this GREAT knowledge to such a weak foundation that no wonder if crumbles. I would submit that virtually 100% of what was done, learned, or felt in grade school, high school, and some colleges, is usless.
Students at 21, and 22, as recent graduates are worse off than our parents. They are in debt. They are non-committal. They are irresponsible. [Sorry for the generalities]. And they are far older than their parents and past generations when it comes to progress in life. Our time lines for success have been lengthened, not because of longer life spans, but because the system seeks to gain an even greater share of our lives.
Yet, it's bought. Hook line and sinker. Kids, from as young as 5 are given away to state mandated teachers, for almost 50% or more of their waking hours, during the most impressionable time of their lives. They're ranked with stars, and awards, and deans lists. Those who achieve such acclaim, are rewarded and revered. Those who don't, are outsiders, stupid, they will not succeed, and possibly punished. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The fact that Education is second only to God in this world proves this fact. Is knowledge valuable? Yes. BUT "the power of knowledge lies not in knowledge, but the possession of the RIGHT kind of knowledge." - Carlos Castaneda, Don Juan.
This is as true as any fact. For some 16 years of your life, you operate in THIS fish bowl. IT BECOMES your reality, as real or fake as it might be. From the beginning, your labeled, pegged and operate with THAT belief of yourself, and it plays out from the get-go. And if you're not keen enough to SEE it, and most never do, you're doomed. Your self-image is laid down and unchangeable unless you work to change it and know that all before that was fake.
Should this alarm people? I hope so.
I find it horrible that during a youths most impressionable years they are given away to the state or private schools. Strangers. Who implant their values when kids are most susceptible to their environment. That they are put in a system that does not seek to MAXIMIZE learning, but to RANK the learning.
"Yup get on the conveyor belt here, and let's see what this beast can do. Hmmm, nice grades. Attractive. Athletic. Good family. Ok, you can go to the middle income range."
Sad as it might be, this is the reality. Teachers, by and large are not fully to blame, they are only pawns in the game. They are acting out of their own hypnotized positions.
Research education. Research the grand design of what it is. Of what it seeks to do. It's not pretty. And it's largely the reason most people are in the position they are in.
When you consider from age 5 to age 21, you're in some meat factory, for more than 50% of your AWAKE time, with the other % in front of the TV or doing school work or working, what is to be expected?
It's a severe threat to the control of the world if a few people were to awaken and unplug the rest. But yet, it remains this way. Can a few buck the trends set forth? Sure, some always will. The battle cry of "Gates didn't go to College" is only substantiated by the fact that his creativity and vision weren't killed by public schooling. And most entrepreneurs you will find RETAIN this pizzazz. They never lost their creativity. Their vision. Their life. They're not so enslaved by the system, by thinking, that they can't make something of themselves.
There will be more to come....
A-Unit
The vileness of this system is far deeper than meets the eye.
Educational systems as a whole, have a longer, more sordid history than we know. Or are even told of. For as long as human history can record, class wars, power struggle and slavery have been present. Some minority, some elite group, have long sought to command a few "animals." To control the masses. It is deemed, by some "right" that they are the gifted few, those who should control the other 95% destiny. In school, because most training is not for independent thought, you're taught to be DEPENDENT on someone. A teacher. The principal. Your parents. The answer key. Within you, the answer do not lie and wait. Oh no! It's OUTSIDE of you you must seek comfort and shelter. And this is just the beginning....
Millenia ago, education was nil. The bible was not even available for anyone other than clergy. People had to take the word of GOD from those of the clergy and priests, and that was where their powers began. But more than that, it was deemed that without structure, without control, everyone was a threat. If they didn't fall-in line, elimate them. Play by the rules or perish. This was the game.
The first emergence of America gives way to this. America was merely a colonial offshoot of England. We were to build the wealth of Europe. But we hated taxation without representation. We hated being told what to do so far away. We hated having so much opportunity and squandering it being subversive to a continent thousands of miles away. So we revolted. We overthrew their rule and risked life for freedom. And we won.
So we think...
Can you see where being outside the crowd? Being outside the CROWD WITH POWER and CLOUT is dangerous? Education came along to solve this. Any system will. System by and large serve to bring order and process. Input. Output. In goes the material, out goes the product. Our system in America is no different, it's only progressing further and further along a time line. Now College is included in this machine.
Independent thought IS NOT, I repeat NOT, what education is. You go to a set curriculum. Art is on the back burner. No such trades are taught, save a few technical schools. Everything is dumbed down to the lowest common denominator. Rankings are given to students, so that over their lifetime, it is believed that THIS is all they're capable of.
If you're a "D" student, you must ALWAYS be a D student. You can never be a D here, and an A there. You are this, and that's it. So your income, your tastes, your choices, your women, ALL should match the standards of a "D' student. See how vicious this is?
What's worse, the system spills into your home life. Teachers, angered at your lack of progress, call teacher-parent conferences to publicize your progress, or lack there of. Punishment ensues, and so does the horrific spiral toward mediocrity. The system succeeds.
Students learn set course loads, at a slugs pace, by a testing method that only embraces ONE FORM of learning and ONE form of testing. Parents have no say in the teachers who are hired. Teachers can bring their bad emotional background, their prejudices, their likes and dislikes to bear upon impressionable youths and teens. They are simply their as pawns of a curriculum. Here's the prospectus, we will follow this until the end of the year. End game.
Tell me...when you read a book or take a course, how long does it take to learn the courseload? A day? A week? A month? Learning is not and never is AT YOUR OWN pace.
Sidebar: I recall math when i was younger. I WAS AWFUL. Grounded at it. Punished. Teacher-parent conferences. The whole shiban. I feared math class. Nobody could help. It just never clicked, and were I not toucher to endure the mental slings of youth and the imminent punishment I might be a shell of a man. And then, one day, I GOT IT!!! It clicked. I could do it in my head. Screw the calculator. BANG. I owned math. And then science. And for what price did I pay the insult, the punishment, and the humiliation all for the sake of numbers??
You see, it is a system. It's a system created to keep the belief that knowledge is power. Oh it is POWER. But not public knowledge. For what taxpayers pay teachers to enslave their children emotionally, you could get at 1/100 the price from Barnes and Noble over their education careers.
And this, ladies and gentleman, is where everybody's lives becomes wound up or unwind. It's MEANT to keep people mentally enslaved. It's meant to dumb us down. To keep us looking for jobs. To NOT rise above where we are, except for a minor few who buck the trend.
The most valuable courses which would bring young wealth and riches are NEVER taught. Why is this? Some might say because "English is fundamental." Well after you can read and write, I say math is equally fundamental. And not just A, S, M, or D, but knowing checks and balance, investing, and so forth. Read old books like the Baron Son or Richest Man in Babylon and you'll see people were learning SKILLS THAT WOULD MAKE THEM INDENDEPENT THINKERS and PEOPLE WHO COULD INDEPENDENTLY SURVIVE.
That WAS the nature of original schools. Teachers were rarely if ever paid. They mostly volunteered. Thought was more abstract, more open to debate. There was no rigidity of course load. Thinking was an open forum. It wasn't DANGEROUS to buck a trend, try a new style. IT WAS LEARNING, not EDUCATION. Education is the IMPLANTATION of thoughts, concepts, and so forth. LEARNING is understanding, acceptance, application.
How does this matter here? Now? Because, consider that education itself, while basic and fundamental, also creates different social results in all us. All us are the products of our environment filtered through our egos, perceptions, beliefs, and understanding. The same person from a broken home who loses heart, MAY also be the same person who seeks to rise ABOVE his surroundings. See any person who's made it out of the Ghetto, or ask any disadvantaged friend. I have a few.
And yet, most people are trying to ADD all this GREAT knowledge to such a weak foundation that no wonder if crumbles. I would submit that virtually 100% of what was done, learned, or felt in grade school, high school, and some colleges, is usless.
Students at 21, and 22, as recent graduates are worse off than our parents. They are in debt. They are non-committal. They are irresponsible. [Sorry for the generalities]. And they are far older than their parents and past generations when it comes to progress in life. Our time lines for success have been lengthened, not because of longer life spans, but because the system seeks to gain an even greater share of our lives.
Yet, it's bought. Hook line and sinker. Kids, from as young as 5 are given away to state mandated teachers, for almost 50% or more of their waking hours, during the most impressionable time of their lives. They're ranked with stars, and awards, and deans lists. Those who achieve such acclaim, are rewarded and revered. Those who don't, are outsiders, stupid, they will not succeed, and possibly punished. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The fact that Education is second only to God in this world proves this fact. Is knowledge valuable? Yes. BUT "the power of knowledge lies not in knowledge, but the possession of the RIGHT kind of knowledge." - Carlos Castaneda, Don Juan.
This is as true as any fact. For some 16 years of your life, you operate in THIS fish bowl. IT BECOMES your reality, as real or fake as it might be. From the beginning, your labeled, pegged and operate with THAT belief of yourself, and it plays out from the get-go. And if you're not keen enough to SEE it, and most never do, you're doomed. Your self-image is laid down and unchangeable unless you work to change it and know that all before that was fake.
Should this alarm people? I hope so.
I find it horrible that during a youths most impressionable years they are given away to the state or private schools. Strangers. Who implant their values when kids are most susceptible to their environment. That they are put in a system that does not seek to MAXIMIZE learning, but to RANK the learning.
"Yup get on the conveyor belt here, and let's see what this beast can do. Hmmm, nice grades. Attractive. Athletic. Good family. Ok, you can go to the middle income range."
Sad as it might be, this is the reality. Teachers, by and large are not fully to blame, they are only pawns in the game. They are acting out of their own hypnotized positions.
Research education. Research the grand design of what it is. Of what it seeks to do. It's not pretty. And it's largely the reason most people are in the position they are in.
When you consider from age 5 to age 21, you're in some meat factory, for more than 50% of your AWAKE time, with the other % in front of the TV or doing school work or working, what is to be expected?
It's a severe threat to the control of the world if a few people were to awaken and unplug the rest. But yet, it remains this way. Can a few buck the trends set forth? Sure, some always will. The battle cry of "Gates didn't go to College" is only substantiated by the fact that his creativity and vision weren't killed by public schooling. And most entrepreneurs you will find RETAIN this pizzazz. They never lost their creativity. Their vision. Their life. They're not so enslaved by the system, by thinking, that they can't make something of themselves.
There will be more to come....
A-Unit
