To Relo,
Genius forum is forum for escapists from stark reality and painfull truth of the world affairs. You will not find any meaningful answers from this bunch of "naval gazers". To put it plainly, most of the posters on this board are
full of shit, including and especially the administrators.
After the worldly matters forum was shut down, most of the intelligent people have left the board, as anything to do with discussing current affairs (on GENIUS forum) are subject to removal/censorship at the whim of the board administrator(s)/moderator(s).
Not that different from school system, realy.
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Between 1896 and 1920 a small group of industrialists and financiers subsidized university chairs and researchers with the aim of bending schooling to the service of business and the political state. For leading industrialists such as Andrew Carnegie and
John T. Rockefeller, public schooling was engineered to serve a modified command economy and an increasingly layered social order. And how best to do this? By copying the Prussian model of public education.
The new organization, after an initial donation by Rockefeller, Sr. of over $1 million, quickly absorbed the major existing philanthropic groups working in the South - the Slater and Peabody Funds. The General Education Board first assisted Robert Ogden's Southern Education Board, established several years earlier, then broadened its horizons to include other aspects of education.The real motivation behind the General Education Board, however, was perhaps best expressed in the Board's Occasional Letter No. 1, written by Gates:
In our dreams, we have limitless resources and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding bands. The present education conventions fade from their minds, and unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning, or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, editors, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have an ample supply.
The task we set before ourselves is very simple as well as a very beautiful one, to train these people as we find them to a perfectly ideal life just where they are. So we will organize our children and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way, in the homes, in the shops and on the farm.(Source [
http://www.sntp.net/education/leipzig_connection_6.htm ])
Government schooling came to function as a jobs project where "the primary mission of schools and compulsion laws guaranteed an audience no matter how bad the show" Indeed administrators nationally have grown 110% from 1983 to 1991 and increased spending by the federal government has only aggravated the problem rather than solving it.
1954 Congressional Investigation into Charitable Foundations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCUu8KC_WfI
Schools are prisons of coercion, where students are regulated by a
life of fragmented knowledge, where they
show obedience to strangers, where the design of education is dependency, obedience, regulation and subordination.
Schools make childhood surreal by:
• enforcing sensory deprivation
• sorting children into rigid categories (read: standardized testing)
• training children to stop at the sound of a buzzer
• keeping children under constant surveillance and depriving
them of private time and space
• assigning numbers to children which feigns the ability to
discriminate personal qualities
• insisting that every moment be filled with low level abstractions
• forbidding children to make their own intellectual discoveries