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                          It was never about education
                                        
> In 1888, the [US (United States)] Senate Committee on Education was getting
> jittery about the localized, non-standardized, non-mandatory form of
> education that was actually teaching children to read at advanced levels,
> to comprehend history, and, egads, to think for themselves. The committee's
> report stated, “We believe that education is one of the principal causes of
> discontent of late years manifesting itself among the laboring classes.”
> 
> By the turn of the century, America's new educrats were pushing a new form
> of schooling with a new mission (and it wasn't to teach). The famous
> philosopher and educator John Dewey wrote in 1897:
> 
> > Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the
> > maintenance of the proper social order and the securing of the right
> > social growth.
> > 
> > In his 1905 dissertation for Columbia Teachers College, Elwood
> > Cubberlythe future Dean of Education at Stanfordwrote that schools should
> > be factories “in which raw products, children, are to be shaped and
> > formed into finished products … manufactured like nails, and the
> > specifications for manufacturing will come from government and industry.”
> > 
> 

“The Educational System Was Designed to Keep Us Uneducated and Docile [1]”

If true, it would certainly explain the extreme dumbing down of US schools
[2], especially since we no longer really have an industrial base anymore.

Reading the entire article is scary. Very scary, if true. So is the video I
linked to above, if only the fact that the stuff that works is being actively
ignored by those intrenched in the Educational System.

[1] http://www.thememoryhole.org/edu/school-
[2] http://www.michaelduff.net/blog/2006/03/stupid-in-america.html

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