Exactly how does one begin to feel so inferior as to think there is this huge all-powerful group carrying out a social masterplan and you are unable to do anything about it?
The trouble is they are doing it in the schools. Brainwashing generations with the culture of hate and materialism that they call rationalism.
The next trick of our glorious banks will be to charge us a fee for using net bank!!! You are no longer customer, you are property!!!
The trouble is they are doing it in the schools. Brainwashing generations with the culture of hate and materialism that they call rationalism.
This is true. Some of the crap my kids get taught is ridiculous. Teachers are a fairly lefty bunch anyway, and curricula are flexible, it seems, almost to the ridiculous.
Exactly how does one begin to feel so inferior as to think there is this huge all-powerful group carrying out a social masterplan and you are unable to do anything about it?
I don't feel inferior. It's right before our eyes.
I feel extremely superior to the likes of you.
stinkbug
30 Dec 2013, 12:18 PM
This is true. Some of the crap my kids get taught is ridiculous. Teachers are a fairly lefty bunch anyway, and curricula are flexible, it seems, almost to the ridiculous.
I recall in 6th grade being guilted into supporting an ethiopian. My dad told me I didn't have to do it, however mum wanted to keep the peace.
I could see through the bullshit by the time I was about 12. Teachers are often just a bunch of power hungry would be commies.
Then they say the Libs have a born to rule attitude. Pot kettle!
I thought your kids would be going to some $20k a year school to become mates with all the other rent seeker parasites?
stinkbug omosessuale Frank Castle is a liar and a criminal. He will often deliberately take people out of context and use straw man arguments. Frank finally and unintentionally gives it up and admits he got where he is, primarily via dumb luck! See here Property will be 50-70% off by 2016.
Teachers are often just a bunch of power hungry would be commies.
More the Greens these days....latest project is Gay marriage. The problem is they think their categories are realities.
stinkbug
30 Dec 2013, 12:18 PM
This is true. Some of the crap my kids get taught is ridiculous. Teachers are a fairly lefty bunch anyway, and curricula are flexible, it seems, almost to the ridiculous.
The old standard was like this.
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In the 5th century AD, Martianus Capella defined the seven Liberal Arts as: grammar, dialectic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. In the medieval Western university, the seven liberal arts were divided in two parts:
After that was the post graduate "Doctor of Philosophy". Where by you could become say a Medical Doctor, or go on to study Theology and become a Church minster which was still a very good paying job in 18th century Britain. The Churchman then being the main social guardian of a community in all aspects.
Basically each student was set their own standards and lead into areas they were naturally good at. "Education" means to "draw out" the hidden talents in the students. Today we got the "sausage machine" in a variety of technical training. Today they try to impose "metrosexuality" on boys. It never works well because the primary role of Eduction was originally to refine the hidden capability in the Student, not to convert them into something they are not.
Glad to see there is absolutely no agreement at all in this thread. Let me recap:
1. There is brainwashing in schools to be materialistic and unthinking consumers. 2. Teachers are lefties and the curriculum is too flexible. 3. The problem these days is the kids can't choose what they learn. 4. Kids get taught silly stuff they don't need and moops is superior to me.
Does anyone here remember getting taught things in school they didn't need? Maybe lots and lots of stuff? I guess not. I can tell you that a 10th grader in 2012 is far smarter than a 10th grader form 30 years ago in many ways, but not all. Wrote learning was a far stronger component 30 years ago, something that is rarely emphasized today (and rightly so with such easy access to information). The most important thing is for students to learn how to learn and appreciate gaining knowledge.
Most of what we learn doesn't happen in schools, and I highly doubt that materialistic consumerism is learnt from the curriculum. It is much much much much more likely to be learned from home, TV and society in general. But don't let that get in the way of your old-people rant about how good it was back in your day/s.
stinkbug
30 Dec 2013, 03:05 PM
Hell no. Unless your local public is really bad, private school is a total waste of money.
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