17 November 2016

Why Are Students So Ignorant?

"Experience has shown that even under the best forms [of government], those entrusted with power have in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and ... the most effectual means of preventing this would be to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large ..."
~ Thomas Jefferson

So the next time you wonder why schools don't teach about American History or the Constitution (among other things), re-consider what Mr. Jefferson said. It's a deliberate plot, begun by the Progressives over 100 years ago, to "dumb down" the U.S. population.

The inverse of what Jefferson said is, "Ignorant people are easily enslaved."

9 comments:

Ed Bonderenka said...

Public schools in Britain were first introduced to produce worker drones, not thinkers.

Rev. Paul said...

That's not so surprising, Ed, as the Fabian Progressive movement began there.

LindaG said...

Sadly true. Of course progs will claim that they are teaching the younger generation to be more... loving and accepting, while destroying the country.
Ugh.

Be safe.

drjim said...

Woodrow Wilson was a huge proponent of the Prussian system of schooling that had two levels.

One for the elite who would go to University, and one for the rest of us who would be taught *just enough* so we could read, write, do simple arithmetic, and be good little factory workers, nothing more, nothing less.

Rev. Paul said...

Exactly, Jim. The deliberate dumbing-down ramped up to full speed under Pres. Wilson.

Rob said...

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?? The world may never know.

Rev. Paul said...

They might, Rob. That's the sort of irrelevant triviality which colleges teach nowadays. :/

threecollie said...

I had a friend sit and explain this to me when our kids were little...and then we watched it happen. At least our small local schools do a much better job than those in the cities. Our kids were far better prepared than many for college, where the indoctrination really gets intense. Had one teacher who would kick kids out of the class, which was required, if they didn't echo her political opinions. In a state school no less.

Rev. Paul said...

threecollie, that's the sort of thing that gets folks riled up. At least in the areas where we've lived.