The Education Deficit
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
-John Dewey
I know according to Ricky Santorum, that being educated is akin to being a snob. That must make him a double snob since he has an MBA and a JD from Penn State.
Where on Earth did this concept of anti-education come from? Where is it ok to keep kids some and have parents just indoctrinate their kids? All things being political, this is an attack. This has been a long standing attack on “the expert.” It really signifies some of the ills in this country and why we indeed have an Education Deficit. It is slowly killing us.
There is a movement out there that merely states that the government is the source of all ills. This is mostly the Libertarian fad and the Tea Party folk who say that less government is the solution. The also openly attack public school teachers and have revitalized a movement to “home school” your child. That is to say you make your child stay home and you will teach him mathematics, reading, writing, history (which I am sure is revisionist), science (unless you are a Christian fundamentalist), and other subjects. They simply say that teachers are horrible and all they want to do is indoctrinate kids to be “liberals”, in other worlds multi-culturalists.
That is not even the half of it. Partisan attacks aside, the true crime is found as society as a whole. Where are the people who still read? Books! Remember those? Remember the classics of Plato, Aristotle, Plutarc, Cicero, Rousseau, and others? The classics are no longer taught in the highschool…our intellectual inheritance is dying. What is taking it’s place? 16 and pregnant, 19 kids and counting, ghost hunters, and the voice: anyone see a pattern here? Shitty tv has extinguished the passions for learning new things in old books. Therefore, you have an entire segment of people who don’t know anything and can’t create/innovate anything.
To use an economic term, we are depleting our “human capital.” If you want to continue to dumb down society, you will continue to have class divides ala the 1% and 99%. You will continue to have a class of people who are economically burdened with bad loans, bad mortgages, and bad debt. Why? None of them can read or add and on top of that none of them know what recourses they can take to combat this pernicious predations. You continue to have fully capable people flailing around and feeling hopeless. Education is your freedom.
My advice. Read. Read online. Go to your library and read. Get out and talk to people. Share ideas of the society that you want to live in…wherever your ideology or faith is. Question what people do and question what you do. Try to improve yourself. Education is your freedom. Don’t add to the Education Deficit.
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A police surveillance video shows George Zimmerman arriving at the Sanford, Fla., station in handcuffs the night he shot Trayvon Martin, 17.
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Robert Reich: Healthcare Jujitsu →
Not surprisingly, today’s debut Supreme Court argument over the so-called “individual mandate” requiring everyone to buy health insurance revolved around epistemological niceties such as the meaning of a “tax,” and the question of whether the issue is ripe for review.
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Men who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.
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Picture of the Day. Herat, Afghanistan. A former Taliban fighter, pictured after a ceremony in which he joined Afghan government forces.
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“You know money is made from cotton, so why are you chasing paper?” KRS-1…the philsopher from south bronx…well south south bronx to be exact. #WAKEUPPEOPLE!
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Liberty
Liberty should not mean the freedom to starve.
Liberty should not mean the freedom to be homeless.
Liberty should not be mean the freedom to die from lack of healthcare.
Liberty should not mean the freedom to die because you can’t afford the things that are pertinent to living.
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Winning!
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