Schools are the real animal farm

05-09-19

Since the 1960s, we all knew how out of touch with reality the American education system is.

Mired in that misnamed period called the enlightenment, schools teach a largely deluded and questionably moral agenda that ill prepares them for contemporary times.

Most kids are ruined for the real world by the time they leave elementary school -- opinions and world view shaped for them by educators with a specific agenda and which puts each kid in a bubble of illusion and wishful thinking expanded on later in high school and college.

In some ways secondary education resembles a terrorist organization in which teachers and professors serve as handlers in order to make sure student maintain this particular point of view.

Is it any wonder that these kids buy into discredited beliefs such as the new green deal or walk out of class to protest trump or gun violence?

Students -- in particular the best and brightest -- are constantly seeking approval from those who teach them and so do and say things they know will win them praise.

So, each of these events reflects not what students believe but what they are taught to believe by adults who for the most part live in a bubble of their own and espouse out of date philosophies that students accept as truth.

Conservatives have long maintained that schools and most often colleges have become bastions of liberal propaganda.

This is only partly true.  They have become places where professors who are out of touch with reality teach kids to be out of touch as well.

While claiming to be teaching kids how to think for themselves, these professors teach them how to think like the professors think, creating an army of intolerant clones who mistakenly believe they are the soul possessors of truth.

It's extremely frustrating dealing with people who assume they know more than you do, overly miseducated zombies who spout a lot on nonsense then go into tantrums when the world won’t take them seriously or they can't get their own way.

Unfortunately -- like a world terrorist organization -- this is self-perpetuating and there is no way to bring back these young people once they have been so skewed by this corrupting influence.

More well-meaning teachers have told me that a student is really ruined by the time they leave grammar school, maybe even before that, so, if we are to provide them with a read education, we have to stop subjecting them to propaganda starting in Kindergarten, and start reaching them how to survive in the real world – where we lave already learned some four legged animals are more equal than others, regardless of how much diversity claim there is.

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