Via http://www.disinfo.com/ What does the school do with the children? Gatto states the following assertions in “Dumbing Us Down”: It makes the children confused. It presents an incoherent ensemble of information that the child needs to memorize to stay in school. Apart from the tests and trials that programming is similar to the television, it fills almost all the “free” time of children. One sees and hears something, only to forget it again. It teaches them to accept their class affiliation. It makes them indifferent. It makes them emotionally dependent. It makes them intellectually dependent. It teaches them a kind of self-confidence that requires constant confirmation by experts (provisional self-esteem). It makes it clear to them that they cannot hide, because they are always supervised What does the school do with the children? Gatto states the following assertions in “Dumbing Us Down” Interesting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeEWPbTad_Q"]John Taylor Gatto - The Purpose Of Schooling - YouTube
School makes us loose our compassion. It's a perfect system of manipulation. The video is very interesting and well-made! Goodbye dreams, goodbye childhood. My future shall not be mathematically determined. Thanks a lot for sharing this, you heard of FOX before? It's got the power of all famous TV channels in order to damage our minds. Be the difference, rebel!
programming wo]maninpulation hey teacher/preacher/vampire blood suckin leacher leave those kids alone ! other than that school teaches social/communication skills and kills natural telepathy
Seeing as how this guy is from my hometown area, I can confidently tell you that this is a bunch of simplistic bull. In my opinion.
Odon will be here soon to defend schooling and show us, with links to government sanctioned websites, why we all need it. It's funny, because I somehow knew before I even clicked on this thread that it would be about John Taylor Gatto. I've read a couple of his books, in fact. Some good information, but it's all been very obvious to me for a long, long time. Public schooling is designed to basically break down a person's individuality from a young age, to create consensus and basically a population that doesn't think for themselves. This suits the controllers just fine, because they want a dumbed down population that is content to be simply cogs in the system, working, paying taxes, and accumulating material items which ultimately mean nothing once you leave this earth. I mean, look... in elementary school you are given gold stars for doing well on tests by simply regurgitating what someone else told you is true. Doesn't mean it is, but the message gets across anyhow. Conform or be cast out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu9Ycq64Gy4"]Subdivisions - Rush - YouTube Sprawling on the fringes of the city In geometric order An insulated border In between the bright lights And the far unlit unknown Growing up it all seems so one-sided Opinions all provided The future pre-decided Detached and subdivided In the mass production zone Nowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone Subdivisions -- In the high school halls In the shopping malls Conform or be cast out Subdivisions -- In the basement bars In the backs of cars Be cool or be cast out Any escape might help to smooth The unattractive truth But the suburbs have no charms to soothe The restless dreams of youth Drawn like moths we drift into the city The timeless old attraction Cruising for the action Lit up like a firefly Just to feel the living night Some will sell their dreams for small desires Or lose the race to rats Get caught in ticking traps And start to dream of somewhere To relax their restless flight Somewhere out of a memory of lighted streets on quiet nights...
Honestly I loved grade school and I love college and I am super happy that I went and am currently going. Don't really care what anyone else thinks about it, I love it.
Who here has takin college math and thought to themselves.. "the fuck is the point of this? and why in the hell is this required?"
Yup. Meeee. Perhaps that explains why I never went further than an Associates degree. A lot of good that did.
Math is the reason i dropped out of college. It was a ball and chain in every degree i was interested in.
Well, you're in a rewarding field, dealing with plants and being outdoors. Plus you're intelligent as hell. I wasn't trying to pigeonhole or stereotype everyone who is college educated. Please don't take offense, sweetie.
I think its great if someone enjoys school. Why though, am i taking advanced calculus when im outside dealing with plants! ...
yeah, it was fucking ridiculous. i mean, i had just finished taking calculus in high school, then i went to college, and they required me to drop back down to basic trigonometry for my one required math credit. if i could have just tested out, it would have been no big deal. but something like 1/3 of the grade was based on pop quizzes, so i actually had to show up to class just for those.
I'm not offended... just giving a different perspective I'll admit that I don't use my calculus during my life but I am a total nerd so I thought it was fun. I don't really remember much now though since it was 11 years ago.
I had dinner with a family and one of their friends, when i was in college. They are both very hard workers who are successful. Both husbands are doctors. One is a breast cancer surgeon, the other is a plastic surgeon. I was having a hard time with math and i asked them if they have used any of the math in your doctor career that they studied in college. They both said no. I was already frustrated as hell cause i was in tutoring everyday for an hour, as was several other students i saw daily. Now i didn't know the other students personally, but you can tell their was an agreeance we were all stuck at a point in our degrees because of math. We cannont graduate unless we going through this. This is bullshit because it hard! Im not going to apply for NASA! No i aint gonna land a rover on mars! I want to be outside studdying the fish in the river! No you can't be outside studdying the fish cause you gotta do this money stealing wall-bearing math class. So you take calculus 101, 102, and 103 you know or whatever the numbers are. Then you gotta take trigonometry 201, 278, and 298 Then you gotta take Man what the fuck all i wanna do is work with the trout!