Forgive college debt and free college for all..Now the reason

[Ninurta]

The last few years have, IMO, given consideration to questioning the entire K-12 public school system, as well as ALL of the colleges and universities.

Those systems and institutions were never meant to be hotbeds of radical ideology.  They have now been subverted and corrupted.  May be time to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

But why would I suggest that?  Because the era in which our school and university systems emerged in the USA was primarily the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Those systems made sense in that era as a way of educating people.  Not so sure that is the case anymore.  Two examples come immediately to mind.  One is distance education, internet courses, or whatever one wishes to call them -- there are many more options for education today than gathering a bunch of people into a common space at a given time.  The other is the emergence of trades (like being a router specialist) that require a very narrow technical focus and pay quite well.  The "education" for trades like that is outside of the traditional educational system, and, I suspect, those kinds of trades will become more common.

The above is not good news for career educators or tenured professors.  All I can say is, "tough shit".  Too many educators, school board members, and university professors and instructors have abused their positions to advance radical political agendas.  Perhaps they should learn to wield a shovel with a highway maintenance crew ... that will do wonders to reconnect them to the reality of everyday people.

Cheers

Absolutely. The modern education system, what it has evolved to at all levels, purposely confuses indoctrination with education, and hopes none of the rest of us will notice. They are two different things, and the difference between them is really simple, for even the simplest minds to grasp. "Education" teaches one HOW to read and write, not WHAT to read and write... it teaches one HOW to count, not WHAT to count... it teaches one HOW to think, not WHAT to think... so the difference is very basic, and very glaring. Education gives you wings and pushes you out of the nest. Indoctrination gives you a ball and ankle chain of pre-packaged notions and leads you by the nose, and always leads you to your doom.

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