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Indoctrination, confusion, and ignorance

There’s been a lot of talk, articles, wailing and gnashing of teeth (all well deserved) about public education acting as an indoctrination factory for the country’s children.  We read about Critical Race Theory, anti-science climate change theories, and over-sexualization being pushed every day.

What we’re not hearing about nearly enough is the fact that those things are replacing math, science, reading, logic, social studies, and civics, leading to a generation of children who can name the three Kardashian sisters, but don’t know the capital city of the United States.

Think I’m kidding?

“Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” (Winston Churchill).  

The US system isn’t even teaching history so what happens then?  Social studies is not even part of standardized tests (gee, who creates these tests) so it has been minimized or removed altogether.

Families are fleeing public education.  Because the one good thing from the covid panic is that parents found out what was going on in the classroom.

BTW, Steve Jobs called this almost thirty years ago.  And gave reasons.



10 responses to “Indoctrination, confusion, and ignorance”

  1. Remember the video is edited for maximum impact.You never see the 100 people who knew the correct answers.Be that as it may, there have always been stupid and ignorant people in the world. We just get video documentation of it these days.

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  2. What Gerry said is true.But notice that the girls didn't know shit except the names of the Kardashians. Typical.

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  3. Allan Bloom in Closing of the American Mind says the same, but shows its deeper roots as being from the ambiguity of what is the ''self''. His solution is more or less along the lines of what you would call classical education. [HE especially recommends The Republic of PLATO.

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  4. Gerry, Anon, NFO–I would generally agree, however a friend of mine who has a college sophomore and HS freshman just told me that he had to disabuse them of the notion that Denmark was part of either Russia (college child) or the UK (HS child). He also had to enlighten them as to 'what was up' with 'that Hitler guy' and explain that they speak Danish in Denmark even though it is also a type of doughnut.Avraham–I had a pretty good high school education, but I think that my generation was the last one, at least in the US.

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  5. Remember the video is edited for maximum impact.You never see the 100 people who knew the correct answers.Be that as it may, there have always been stupid and ignorant people in the world. We just get video documentation of it these days.

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  6. What Gerry said is true.But notice that the girls didn't know shit except the names of the Kardashians. Typical.

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  7. Allan Bloom in Closing of the American Mind says the same, but shows its deeper roots as being from the ambiguity of what is the ''self''. His solution is more or less along the lines of what you would call classical education. [HE especially recommends The Republic of PLATO.

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  8. Gerry, Anon, NFO–I would generally agree, however a friend of mine who has a college sophomore and HS freshman just told me that he had to disabuse them of the notion that Denmark was part of either Russia (college child) or the UK (HS child). He also had to enlighten them as to 'what was up' with 'that Hitler guy' and explain that they speak Danish in Denmark even though it is also a type of doughnut.Avraham–I had a pretty good high school education, but I think that my generation was the last one, at least in the US.

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