learning languages; reading novelists; learning history, consisting largely or even solely of learning dates of wars/battles lost or won; winning and losing generals, kings, nobles, princes is a pain in the neck.

it is of value for some individuals but shldn’t be mandatory for kids who do not want to learn french or history consisting of enumeration of dates, etc. tnx

One of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Bertrand A. Russell

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.
George Bernard Shaw

A form of self-delusion.
Elbert Hubbard

[Education] consists mainly in what we have unlearned.
Mark Twain

the process of casting false pearls before real swine.
Prof. Irwin Edman

Consider… the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and, in large part, untrue. His whole professional activity is circumscribed by the prejudices, vanities and avarices of his university trustees, i.e., a committee of soap-boilers, nail manufacturers, bank-directors and politicians. The moment he offends these vermin he is undone. He cannot so much as think aloud without running a risk of having them fan his pantaloons.
H. L. Mencken

which one cannot have without people: consumers and owners of production. the statement is a descriptive; thus can be evaluated as true or false.
to me, the statement is true and ?all can understand it and say it is true or false.

how many people own their shops, stores, plants, radio stations, media, entertainment, public transportation, power plants, etc?
we can probably find the answer.

for our purpose we may exclude small business and just find out who owns the major business. probably just 20mn amers of which 2-5mn may own huge amount of properties.

it is these people, the 2-5%, who rule america much more than even the other 15mn let alone how much more than the working class.
changing such a structure can be obtained by educating people about this fact and preparing them for long war on capitalism.

working class needs own party. as far as i know, no ruling class gives away power by just asking it to ease the grip on it even s’mwhat.
but once working peoples’ party grows strong and obtains seats in congress and senate, change is assured. tnx

The primary reason for the difference in “educational achievement” is not difference in material resources in the educational system or the student’s family, but different *values* based on the underlying structure that creates socio-economic difference.

Achievement within the “educational system” is primarily about wealth accumulation – that’s the end-game and hence that’s the process followed. Those who do not achieve (in many cases) don’t *want* to achieve not because they don’t want education, but because they don’t want wealth accumulation. They reject the capitalist system that education exists within and hence reject achievement which is part of climbing the economic ladder of destructive capitalism.

Achievement within the educational system is not a matter of knowledge – it’s a matter of obedience. Those who most accurately obey the instructions (whatever the instructions may be) get the best grades. It’s very common for someone with more knowledge to get a worse grade – if he merely does not obey the instructions given.

The premise for this article is false – not all students equally desire to “achieve”. Achievement only proves obedience – that’s what a diploma represents – obedience and a desire for wealth accumulation – that’s exactly the product that comes out of universities.

This desire to not achieve within the educational system is largely found in lower socio-economic students, due to a cultural tendency toward resistance and non-conformity.

The solution then is not to “give poor kids a fair chance” – they reject the capitalist “chance”.

the basic intent was to divide us; makes us envious of and hateful for ‘beter’ kids. in other words, the divide et impera was applied by the ruling class also in ‘education’ as well as anywhere else it cld aply the dictum.

even in marriage; in sessions with a prez and other luminairies up on podium and serfes dwn i rows instead of all of us sitting in a circle.

i do not think that societal weakness is worse than ever; it may have been that way for 10t yrs.
what makes it appear worse than ever is our techno ‘improvements’ in weaponryand electronics. tnx
go to a church? what do you see? how about ‘talk’ [BS] show? and so on.
tnx