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I agree with the substance of this. Passing on wisdom is not the first, second, or even 3rd point of "education" anymore. Its basically a state-sanctioned child

by 001sky 14y ago

I agree with the substance of this. Passing on wisdom is not the first, second, or even 3rd point of "education" anymore. Its basically a state-sanctioned childcare/socialization programme. Its cleverly mandated under the legal authority for education, but one should make no mistake as to its purpose, and this is one of the many great trojan-horse examples of government-gone-wild in the name of "compassion". All those kids at failing inner-city schools are just being soul-destroyed for a life of minimum-subsistence-wage menial labour.

barry-cotter 14y ago
"I agree with the substance of this. Passing on wisdom is not the first, second, or even 3rd point of "education" anymore." Emphasis added At no point, ever, has there been a state education _system_ where passing on wisdom or knowledge was the first, second or third point. All those kids at failing inner-city schools are just being soul-destroyed for a life of minimum-subsistence-wage menial labour. Actually most of them don't end up working, and they sure as hell don't end living at a subsistence level. The bottom 5% of US income has a great standard of living by global standards. And any soul destroying that's going on is pretty much universal, not confined to members of the underclasses.