Comments on: Nationalized Education and the Culture

By: Joe DeVet

Joe DeVet — Tue, 10 May 2011 11:26:52 +0000

We tend to get the public-education system we “deserve.” Live in a broken culture–endure a profoundly broken public education system.

It obviously can’t be fixed by money, which we’ve been trying to do, with spectacularly negative results. Pour more money in, and it only fails more quickly. (As for the results, as Yogi said, “you could look it up.”)

Interference from the top down is not the cause–the culture is the cause–but it does aggravate the problem, and aggravates the deficit at the same time. Yes, we should oppose this latest power grab by Central Planning. Better yet, dismantle the whole Dept of Education.

Now to the root of the problem. What have you done (including pray) for your culture today?

By: JB in CA

JB in CA — Tue, 10 May 2011 06:09:11 +0000

So should we think that state control of education would not lead to such dire consequences? Exactly this sort of thing is already happening in CA. The problem seems to have less to do with state vs. federal control of education than it does with a growing educational–industrial complex (to extend Eisenhower’s worry).

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