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pai mei · 01-31-2007, 01:11 AM

Here is a video about the US education system, it was made in 1993, it is the speech of a teacher from Pennsylvania

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...+down+children

First time I saw it I was even more shocked than when I saw 9/11 related videos.
It's about the way kids are educated, and the purpose is not to create "the man of tommorow" but "the working man of tommorow", a worker-consumer useful to the corporations

Rockefeller Education Board—which funded the creation of numerous public schools—issued a statement which read in part:

"In our dreams...people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present educational conventions [intellectual and character education] fade from our minds, and unhampered by tradition we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, educators, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have ample supply. The task we set before ourselves is very simple...we will organize children...and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way."

01-31-2007, 01:11 AM	#1 (permalink)
pai mei Insane	The education system - dumbing down children deliberately Here is a video about the US education system, it was made in 1993, it is the speech of a teacher from Pennsylvania http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...+down+children First time I saw it I was even more shocked than when I saw 9/11 related videos. It's about the way kids are educated, and the purpose is not to create "the man of tommorow" but "the working man of tommorow", a worker-consumer useful to the corporations Rockefeller Education Board—which funded the creation of numerous public schools—issued a statement which read in part: "In our dreams...people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present educational conventions [intellectual and character education] fade from our minds, and unhampered by tradition we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, educators, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have ample supply. The task we set before ourselves is very simple...we will organize children...and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way." Last edited by pai mei; 01-31-2007 at 01:24 AM..