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    AMERICAN EDUCATION FAILS BECAUSE IT ISN'T EDUCATION



    AMERICAN EDUCATION FAILS BECAUSE IT ISN'T EDUCATION

    by Tom DeWeese
    April 20, 2011
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    The debate over public education grows more heated. Regularly, reports are released showing that the academic abilities of American students continue to fall when compared to those in other countries.

    Twenty years ago the U.S. ranked first in the world in the number of young adults who had high school diplomas and college degrees. Today we rank ninth and seventh, respectively, among industrialized nations. Compared to Europe and Asia, 15-year-olds in the United States are below average in applying math skills to real-life tasks. The United States ranks 18 out of 24 industrialized nations in terms of relative effectiveness of its education system. Knowledge in history, geography, grammar, civics and literature are all in decline in terms of academic understanding and achievement.

    To solve the crisis, politicians, community leaders, and the education community all preach the same mantra. Students fail, they tell us, because “expectations haven’t been set high enough.â€
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    Mr. DeWeese, well done.

    Americans need to investigate and understand that the education system is in the shape it is due to design of the desired outcome.

    Marxism dictated that the state should take control of the children, that the state was better suited to educate and to raise children with professionals, and that the parents could not be relied upon to "educate" the future generations and achieve the state's desired goals.

    "What good is knowledge if it only makes for a better slave."

    From Frederic Bastiat,

    "From year to year, by means of universal suffrage, national opinion will be embodied in the magistrates, and then the magistrates will mold national opinion as they like...

    To pervert the human mind - that is the problem which seems to have been posed and which has been solved by those to whom the monopoly of education has been handed over."

    Time to end the Federal Dept. of Education. Bring it back home to the local level.

    More Bastiat,

    "And surely one of the saddest sights that can present itself to anyone who loves mankind is that of a productive age bending all of its efforts to infect itself - by way of education - with the thoughts, the sentiments, the errors, the prejudices, and the vices of a nation of plunderers. Our age is often accused of a lack of consistency, of a failure to show any correlation between the ideals it professes and the way of life it pursues. The criticism is just, and I believe that I have here indicated the reason why this situation prevails."

    Bastiat also believed that socialism would fail due to societies ingrained temperments concerning morality, faith, sense of justice, personal sense of responsibilities, etc.

    "And why do political parties aspire to take over the direction of education? Because they know the saying of Leibnitz: "Make me the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world." Education by governmental power, then, is education by a political party, by a sect momentarily triumphant; it is education on behalf of one idea, of one system, to the exclusion of all others."

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