The State Weaponizes Education to Create Ignorance
A hundred fifty years ago, at least some Americans recognized that all serious discourse depended on the use of the faculty called Reason.
Formal debate, science, and law all flowed from that source.
A common bond existed in some schools of the day. The student was expected to learn how Reason operates, and for that he was taught the only subject which could lay out, as on a long table, the visible principles
The independence engendered by the disciplined study of logic is no longer a desired quality in students.
The classroom, at best, has taken on the appearance of a fact-memorization factory; and we should express grave doubts about the relevance and truth of many of those facts.
A society filled with people who float in the drift of non-logic is a society that declines.
Ideologies that deny individual freedom and independence are welcomed with open arms
A string of direct and distracting abuses has saddled our schools. Among them:
Teachers believe they need to entertain children, in order to capture their attention;
School systems have substituted the need for public funds in the place of actually supplying a sound education;
Under the banner of political correctness, school texts have been sanitized to the point of sterility, in order to avoid the possibility of offending, to the slightest degree, any group;
Students rarely confront information in the form in which it is delivered to people all over the world—they confront substitutes;
Students have, in this respect, been coddled;
Subjects such as sex education, which belong in the family, have been delivered into the hands of schools and teachers;
Indeed, in certain key respects, schools are asked to substitute and stand in for parents;
Masked as “learning opportunities,” various political agendas have been inserted in school curricula;
The basis on which every historic document establishing some degree of freedom was debated and drafted—logical thought—has been eliminated from the curriculum as a serious discipline;
Students are permitted and even encouraged to drift and grasp at superficially attractive ideas and fads of the moment;
In this respect, freedom has been reinterpreted to mean “mental incapacity and wandering thought”;
The vast contributions of the ancient Greek civilization, where logic as a crucial subject was born, have been obliterated, minimized or summarized in sterile fashion;
Logic, the connective tissue which binds together the progression of ideas in rational argument, has been kept away from students;
The result is the production of shallow minds that cannot see the architecture of reasoning;
Students, at sea, begin to invent wholly insufficient standards for accepting or rejecting various points of view and supposed authorities;
Students lose their true independence without ever having gained it;
The low level of overall literacy in our schools is matched only by the non-comprehension of rational thought;
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