What have we learned??

[TLyttle]

I questioned the US education system on another site as to how effective it is. Consensus was that it isn't education at all, but propaganda, particularly when it comes to learning about the rest of the planet or its history. Please note that the respondents were Americans. It would seem that knowing about the holocaust or the Roman Empire is less important than how many shots were fired at Bunker Hill. Cicero's quote is so relevant to the situation in the US and how it outlines the future of the US, one would think that its inclusion in school curriculum would be mandatory.

We indeed live in interesting times!

[supmet]

Originally Posted by TLyttle

I questioned the US education system on another site as to how effective it is. Consensus was that it isn't education at all, but propaganda, particularly when it comes to learning about the rest of the planet or its history. Please note that the respondents were Americans. It would seem that knowing about the holocaust or the Roman Empire is less important than how many shots were fired at Bunker Hill. Cicero's quote is so relevant to the situation in the US and how it outlines the future of the US, one would think that its inclusion in school curriculum would be mandatory.

We indeed live in interesting times!

Before the conception of mandatory public schools in the United States, 97% of 18 year olds could read at a 12th grade level. Today less than 75% of 18 year olds can read at the same level.

Not to mention, all the good stuff gets skipped or told from an extremely skewed point of view - gulf of tonkin, bay of pigs, pearl harbor, etc.

The education system in the US is just there to make subservient proletarians. Thanks Mr. Rockefeller.