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Incompetence This Great...Kim du Toit makes a great point:
The other day our Carpenter’s helper heard me say something along the lines of, "it is difficult to conclude that incompetence is the reason why our public schools have deteriorated. There comes a point where you have to suspect sabotage, or a conspiracy."Posted by Jeff at September 20, 2003 12:23 AM | Link Cosmos
He asked me if I really meant that. I gave him the five minute explanation of John Dewey’s known affiliation with communists, his frequent essays and articles about the wonders of the Soviet education system, and his quote, "You can’t make Socialists out of individualists. Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent."
It is noteworthy that Dewey, the icon and deity of the public education establishment, considered the schools' most important function the breaking of the individual's resistance to confiding in and taking orders from his designated superiors. It is equally noteworthy how few Americans who are not professors of education know this, or understand its import.
Viewed through this lens, I think it's clear that the government's schools are functioning exactly as their designers and operators intend them to function. But then, I'm a Curmudgeon, so I have to say things like that, don't I?
Well done, Jeff and Kim.
