The Roots of Our Diseducation System

Why is it that the richest and most powerful nation in the history of mankind has such a generally abysmal education system and record. Why do other societies beat our brains in on achievement scores for our children year after year ?

Well, according to documents ressurrected by The Memory Hole, its because the system was deliberately designed that way. The men we have been taught were the heroes of modern education, like John Dewey, in fact were the architects of class warfare on a scale you can scarcely imagine, according to these documents.

Try this on for size : "We want one class to have a liberal education. We want another class, a very much larger class of necessity, to forego the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks." That was President Woodrow Wilson speaking. Whose children do you suppose were to get the liberal education and whose trained for "specific difficult manual tasks" ?

Or how about this from William Torrey Harris, US Commissioner of Education from 1889 to 1906, who wrote: "The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places.... It is to master the physical self, to transcend the beauty of nature. School should develop the power to withdraw from the external world."

If you have children you might want to think about homeschooling and you certainly want to

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