It began with people being schooled to be stupid

Thanks Colonel. This story and the reader comments that follow it give people a perspective looking back more than 100 years at their Kindergarten through Grade 12 education. The story makes you think about the K-12 education you got. When you look at why and how the Prussian education process was changed, and later on Germany and now the United States, with Obama's hope and change machine, to produce people who would not think independently but would follow orders from the state without question, and people who would cheer the rise of Hitler and the Third Reich. Lots of stuff to think about. 9-minute video.

Bruce

'The School Sucks Project can be found at edu-lu-tion.com

From the site author:

In my 10+ years of teaching, "school sucks" is perhaps the most common phrase I've heard students use to describe their feelings about public education. But this seemingly bitter and reductive slogan is actually quite clever. When taken literally, "school sucks" is perhaps the most accurate and astute synopsis of the system I've ever heard. Here's why...

1. The twelve-year process of an American public education has a dramatic effect on the mind of a child. When we first enter school at age six, many of our best personal attributes are already in place. We are curious, innovative, unique, creative and hopeful in ways that we will rarely be able to replicate throughout the rest of our lives. But over time, school sucks those essential attributes out of too many of us...and replaces them with predictability, obedience and apathy.

2. The public school system sucks off the productive capacity of hard-working people. The system is funded through taxation. In other words, whether public education succeeds or fails (spoiler alert: it fails) at providing real education to the public, the cost goes up every year. There are no refunds.
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Don't let the title fool you. This video is actually about how government-run schooling contributed to the rise of socialism, imperialism and eventually fascism in Germany between the 1890s and 1940s.
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Comment by restoresoundmoney: we need to rethink everything--everything--we think we know about everything given how much of the history we're taught in school is pure bunk. Add to that the pure BS that stands for news & what we've got is a very lethal mixture of hoards taught how NOT to think, NOT to question & lies & omissions that pose as true history & real news.'