The Education System Produces Braindead and Soulless Children
Public school is a nightmare. "Education" as it currently exists is indoctrination. But it is actually worse. It is brutality; it is child torture that has been justified by a toxic, sleepwalking society.
Any place or institution that demands obedience from youngsters while forcing them to attend is not just child abuse. It is a grievous human rights violation.
John Taylor Gatto had this to say about it:
“I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers.”This is true. Children and their parents should not be forced and threatened with violence because of this idea of "truancy." It is not the job of random strangers to decide the fate of children who they have no personal or emotional connection with.
Children Must be Extricated from the Straightjacket of Social Convention
If there is one reason why people need to wake up from the matrix of cultural hypnosis, it is to save the children from this brain-melting machine that everyone calls civilized. It is to extricate them from the straightjacket of toxic conventions and free them from the megalomaniacal, insane masochists within the system.Any place that commands children to follow all authoritarian dictates, sit in a chair for hours at a time, be conditioned by a bell, have rigid assignments, be punished for transgressions, and potentially isolated if they disobey, is a hellacious institution that is built on sadistic and sick principles.
It is no wonder that literacy rates have declined as public education has consolidated its power. One press article provided the dim statistics:
The Department of Education’s National Adult Literacy survey of 1992 revealed that over 50% of American adults over the age of 16 were functionally illiterate. The tragic news is that the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy reveals that the "average prose and document literacy did not differ significantly from 1992."I wish what I was saying was overly dramatic or hyperbolic, but what these "education" facilities are doing is beyond insane and wrong. It is a tragic affair to witness, and it must be abolished lest more children are rendered braindead and soulless.
We need new education ideas. They should be based on freedom and non-coercion.
What kind of ideas for replacements do you all envision?
The only academic skill that children need to learn is basic literacy and numeracy. That doesn't take ten years. At most 2 hours per day for 2 months to learn the alphabet and how basic grammar works, 2 months to be read to every day and in turn read for themselves (which everyone does for themselves anyway), 2 months to learn how the number system works (1, 2....10, 11, 12 ... 99, 100, 101 etc), 2 months to learn subtraction, addition, division and multiplication works and that's it. At most - 2hrs/day for 8 months. That's all you need. And these kind of skills are reinforced because everyone reads and makes basic calculations on a regular basis. I learned sine, cos, tan and calculus in school but I have long since forgotten that knowledge because it is not relevant to my life. That knowledge was pointless.
If they want to learn more then they easily can (everyone has the internet and books are plentiful).
What children really need to learn (and what they do on their own) is Social Skills. This is probably the Most Important skill there is. I'm not sure if school is necessarily Bad for social skills but I would argue that school is bad for the mental health of children (especially boys) and that this institution would therefore interfere with the development of social skills.
Children don't need to be governed to learn how to interact. If they are being governed then they aren't really learning how to interact with other children. They are learning how to obey orders and not think for themselves. Meeting new people requires desire and intelligence - something that being governed (enslaved) erodes.
So these are the basic skills that children really need to learn - basic Literacy, Numeracy and Social Skills. All other skills are job-specific and should be learned from the parents.
The child's father should have a job.
The mother should stay at home - this is the ultimate job there is.
Breast feeding is enormously important for the mental development of children.
Only women can actually give birth (needless to say).
Women just Do Better in an inside environment with managing duties (these are the kind of professions which working women generally gravitate towards)
If a woman is pregnant then she shouldn't be stressed (bad for the baby) and work can be stressful.
Women are just Better with infants than men are.
Housework is Easier than working in a professional job (not to discredit the enormous importance of managing a house).
Men are Better at working (tend to gravitate towards more inherently lucrative professions and generally Work More and Harder) and I would argue that women are honestly Happier being wives.
Genetics play an big part in who we are. Therefore, who we become should be modelled on the positive attributes of our parents (because they share our genetics). If your father is an engineer then you should go into that field of work. Not only will you be genetically inclined to do well in that profession but you will also have a lot of help and passed-on experience from your father because you should go to the work place with your father. Children are very good at learning. Putting them in 'education' centres where they are dominated is only teaching them how to submit to authority which could only be conceived of as a valuable skill in a fascistic environment (which in of itself is not desirable).
So - after children learn basic skills (reading, writing and social skills - which are consistently reinforced), they should learn job skills.
This means being exposed to the workplace of their representative parent. Boys should learn from their fathers and girls from their mothers. If a child prefers a different profession then that's absolutely fine but they should be - if possible - convinced to do what they're genetically inclined to be good at. If a girl doesn't want to learn how to become a mother and wants to undertake another profession then that's absolutely fine but it should be made clear that if she doesn't become a mother then her genetics will die out, but if she does become pregnant and doesn't invest anything in the raising of her child(ren) (or their environment) then she may be creating some very dysfunctional people who are not going to do well in real life. Once again - her genetics may die out because of an inability to reproduce/prosper due to her child(ren) being undeveloped or dysfunctional i.e. if you create a child and then neglect it (and maybe abuse it - women don't handle stress well and work can be stressful), you are creating a person who will almost certainly become dysfunctional (especially if you add 10+years of 'education' centre to that childhood).
The same can be said for boys. If you don’t get a job then you’ll have probably have no wife and therefore no children. Your genes will probably die out. If you do have a wife who works and you create child, then you’ll probably not do a good job of raising that child or providing it with a positive role model. That child will also not have a mother. If that boy doesn’t become economically competitive then he will probably not have children but if he does then they will probably be dysfunctional or undeveloped.
So - this is how children should ideally be raised, with at much personal freedom as possible where they learn basic literacy, numeracy and social skills, and are then exposed to the workplace of their representative parent (sons for fathers and daughters for mothers) for a few hours every day. Ultimately though, children should interact with other people (mostly children) as much as possible because social skills really are the most important skill that there is. It determines your success socially, how well you can learn, how well you can do in most jobs and - I would argue - how happy you can become because ultimately human being are social animals. Most people aren’t happy being alone.
In addition to our intelligence, we are defined by our exceptional ability to communicate information which is complex and it is this communication which hold markets and societies together and propels them.
'Education' centres damage this ability/desire to communicate (as well as general intelligence and thinking for one's self) by dominating children relentlessly for 30+ hours/week for over 10 years.
While I agree in principle with what you're saying you really shouldn't put a set time on how long it will take a child, or anyone else for that matter, to learn basic literacy and numeracy. There are those with various physical and learning disabilities after all.
I'd also disagree with your gender stereotyping male and female roles for career and caregiving. While I can agree on the importance of breastfeeding I cannot agree that, or example, housework and managing the home is easier than a full time job. Being a full time parent, be it a mother or father is a full time job. Not to mention all the housework and home maintenance. A man that takes care of his kids is no lesser than a woman. And I've known plenty of capable female career women. (I've also known a couple women who were epic fails as parents. So please don't try to pretend all women are better than men as nurturers.) Being a good Father is just as much an expression of the sacred Masculine as being a warrior or a provider. And being able to go out there and provide is or to fight or your family is just as much an expression as the sacred Feminine as nurturing them. Men and women are different this is true but that doesn't mean one is less than the other. Nor does it mean that we're locked into given roles. Also different families might want to work out different dynamics. So long as there's money coming in and the kids are getting taken care of it works out. Also there's no reason a woman can't have a career and be a mother as well. It's not an either or scenario.
I do heartily agree with interest based learning and children not being socially engineered into any particular career. But neither should they be socially engineered only to associate with a specific gender. If a girl likes trucks she should be free to learn about mechanics and engineering. (And no that doesn't mean she won't become a wonderful mother as well.) And if a boy likes to sew let him learn about how to make clothes and become a tailor. That doesn't mean he's gay. It just means he makes clothes. You've gotta remember pretty much every career we associate with women these days has been performed by men at some point. And yes there have been female soldiers and techies as well. In point of fact we wouldn't have the internet without women. So enough with the gender stereotyping.
For many, many years I have known that the state education system is horrid (pretty much as soon as I was old enough to think critically), but I never really grasped many reasons as to why until I read Ron Paul's "The School Revolution." I've not read much beyond that. What is an article or book you can recommend that covers the issue of education very thoroughly and precisely?
Ah yes. Funny, I haven't read much of Ron Paul's material on education. I did, however, read his other books on economics and government.
Check out this book:
http://mhkeehn.tripod.com/ughoae.pdf
I think he plays up homeschooling a bit too much, but overall it was a great little book.
Thanks for the recommendation. I've still got a ton lined up to read (and I will be starting on writing a book), but I will most definitely read this at some point as I have been looking for material to read in addition to Montessori regarding education.
Yes yes yes! This is so true. My school experience was horrendous. I was bored by the subjects. I hated most of the teachers. I could see right through the teachers who were authoritarian for the sake of it. I did fight and argue with them, but that usually only ended up with me in detentions where I would have to write out lines promising never to do it again. In the end, I learned the best option was to shut up, get on with the crap, get straight A's... then plot my freedom for when I was an adult.
Another article I recommend you read about this is by Y Combinator's Paul Graham - Why Nerds Are Unpopular Here are some of my favourite quotes from it
I think the important thing about the real world is not that it's populated by adults, but that it's very large, and the things you do have real effects. That's what school, prison, and ladies-who-lunch all lack. The inhabitants of all those worlds are trapped in little bubbles where nothing they do can have more than a local effect. Naturally these societies degenerate into savagery. They have no function for their form to follow.
When the things you do have real effects, it's no longer enough just to be pleasing. It starts to be important to get the right answers, and that's where nerds show to advantage. Bill Gates will of course come to mind. Though notoriously lacking in social skills, he gets the right answers, at least as measured in revenue.
What bothers me is not that the kids are kept in prisons, but that (a) they aren't told about it, and (b) the prisons are run mostly by the inmates. Kids are sent off to spend six years memorizing meaningless facts in a world ruled by a caste of giants who run after an oblong brown ball, as if this were the most natural thing in the world. And if they balk at this surreal cocktail, they're called misfits.
Much love for the article brother! Man I attended school ( or as Jeff Berwick puts it, indoctrination camp) in post communist country and that was brutal experience. I remember once in 3th grade several of my classmates and I were late for class. The teacher decided to make an example of us. So she command us to step up on the podium in front of the rest of our classmates. Then she told us to extend our hand forward and not to move. She took her wooden stick and hit us with it through our fingers. Can you imagine? I couldn't move my fingers for days. More disturbingly my my parents took it as a normal procedure. Other times she would grab students who "misbehave" on their sideburns hair and lift it up. Very painful. And it gets even sicker. In another incident my cousin had to be taken to the hospital for stiches because his teacher hit him in the head with a pointer. So I agree with you that "education" is child torture. Both physical and mental. As we can see in recent videos of school securities beating children, torture is part of the sysytem . Adulds are so brainwashed also that they think whatever happens in the schools is for the good of their children. I hope more parents read your article and do more research on the reality of compulsory education.
My wife and I use personalized learning to teach our children critical thinking techniques. We don't home school yet the opportunity is just not present atm with our situation. Hopefully in a few years we can have our two older sons out of the state ran slave system and my daughter will hopefully never have to see the inside of one.
Nice. At least you are teaching your children the value of autonomy and some of the problems with the system. But indeed, that will be cool when you get them both out of that situation. Good work, sir. And thanks again for sharing.
Here's a great documentary about "education"
http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/schooling-the-world-2010/
Thanks for sharing this. I appreciate it apoc.
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In our country, a fairly good secondary school system (who wants learning to get good basic knowledge). But a very big problem with the CORUPTION (but it is a human factor and police problem).
What a load of lazy rubbish! Two-dollar wordsmiths with no clue. Yes, I have no doubt your education produced insipid voids but my parents loved me enough to talk to me and raise a free thinking human. Get-off your lazy whinging backsides and do some parenting; it's not rocket science, "it's more important than all that!"
Basic education was never meant to replace a parents responsibility of higher understanding. My eldest has severe brain injury - the special Ed unit are magnificent - but I have raised my daughter and I am praised by her health experts and teachers for ALL the major break-throughs. Despite her severe necrotic frontal lobe age 14-months and the constant warnings she would never achieve empathy/humour/boundaries etc., she has achieved all the above because my parents raised me, and now I'm raising her.
Get your fingers-out-of-your-backsides; stop listening to these worthless self-sanctified nobodies who complaint hat nobody else is raising their children for them, and volunteer to help teachers if you think the education system is failing your children.
A final observation; anyone who can't see the truth in this statement, isn't a parent... not in the true sense of the word.
if the children give full freedom, while half of them in the first years will be in prison :)
Children must learn to live in society, the collective.
but I agree that the education system should be reviewed.
(if there are errors-English is not my native)
It's just a wholly bad and ironic thing that the method for treating children to live in society is to teach them that they should defer to authority. In this sense, society also needs to be looked at.
Thanks for commenting, Sunny. Much appreciated.