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I have joined a parenting forum just to check out what people think about the education system. I wanted to hear what is the school life nowadays, it's been a long time since I've been in school, but it actually looks like it's not that much different.

So I've asked there basically what are the benefits of the government run education system, and in which way does it benefit the future generation. They were very brainwashed, they thought I was some kind of primitivist that would just put his kids to work on a farm and not teach them to read or write. This is literally the mentality of the brainwashed parents, you just ask a simple question and they are so brainwashed that they immediately become defensive about it, and start to attack you.

This is clearly the signs of a cult membership, they can't respond rationally to a simple question, and any kind of questioning is instantly shut down with ad hominem and such.

Then a smarter person just wrote there: math, reading writing, history, geography , etc....

Alright, but do these subjects actually warrant the effort to just let kids rot 12 years in a public school for? Or they are not important at all.

Because I have never seen anybody give an actual good reason why the curriculum is beneficial. In fact it is my opinion that most of it is totally useless, boring, and undermines the healthy development of a child.

The Government never teaches you skills and sciences that will actually be useful to you in your adult life. Never.

Let's enumerate what kind of skills they fail to teach people that would actually be useful:


  • Do they teach you how to make money? Nope.
  • Do they teach you how to give medical first aid? Nope.
  • Do they teach you self defense skills? Nope.
  • Do they teach you how to grow your own crops and basic agriculture? Nope.
  • Do they teach you how to cook? Nope.
  • Do they teach you how to generate your own electricity? Nope.
  • Do they teach you basic DIY skills, like repairing a car, a computer, a table or a chair? Nope.
  • Do they teach you how to use a computer? Sort of, but it's pointless because even a 6 year old can now learn on it's own.

None of the essential survival and life skills above are taught in school, instead they teach you all the names of mountain peaks. It's so absurd.

But it's not incompetence, it's designed this way. I mean the Government doesn't want people to be independent thinkers, so the curriculum is modeled exactly to make a generation of slaves not free people.

After all the modern school system is a leftover and a direct copycat of a totalitarian state worshiping ideology the Prussian education system, meant to create factory workers and soldiers willing to die on the assembly line or in the trenches. Total slavery, this is what caused Nazism, Bolshevism, and all other atrocities resulting from it.

So even as objective as you can be, you can hardly find any benefits of it, and the harms speak for themselves.


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This is such a great post.

instead they teach you all the names of mountain peaks

This would be funny if school wasn't so wrong.

Also they don't teach how money is created.

I remember my geography teacher made us to memorize all mountain names, peaks , altitude, etc...

Of course I forgot them all since, but it also didn't made me an obedient slave either, unfortunately I can't speak for others.

Yeah, certainly the banking system is not even mentioned, not even in economics.

I have a finance degree, and fractional reserve banking was like 1 seminar session, where they literally glorified how good inflation is to create jobs, the same BS you hear in the news.

biggest lack of education system?

Is the government or a teacher asking the question?
Is not a teacher also a parent?
So who does the education system?

  1. both
  2. depends
  3. government- teachers follow their instructions and students follow instructions from teachers

Thanks! I think you put a lot of things in one basket. Everything you mention as skills should be brought by the parents. The school brings knowledge and intellectual skills that parents can not provide.
If you had only learned "essential survival and life skill", you probably would not have been able to write this post.
And when you talk about government, I would rather talk about a few people who impose their vision and ideology on governments.
I am preparing an article on the subject for next week.

In poor countries, as in prehistory, parents provided "essential survival and life skill". Education, whatever it is, has made it possible to change their standard of living. In poor countries, it is the most precious asset that parents want to give to their children.
Today, while we have this education, it is easy to criticize it because we do not know what it is to have no education.

we home schooled our daughter ...
she is 21 now just got back from travelling Europe and is now looking at university ...She has see travelled and is fiercely independent and will do well I am thinking ... and is as far as I am concerned a far better person than if she had gone through the system...

In poor societies, parents bring "essential survival and life skill". Education, whatever it is, has made it possible to change their standard of living.
For educated parents, governments are asked to teach our children "essential survival and life skill". Strange situation!

Ya its a bit much to wrap ones head around some days.
But I think we can agree that school is not what it should be ....
1st off it should be free.... as it is in so many other countries ..
I know my experiences with school where poor ..... to say the least .. And I sure would not pay for them or expect anyone should lol
But our teachers had a lot of rednecked country boys to deal with in my younger days I am sure we left a lasting impression on them also lol

But I think we should agree that this is not what it should be ....

I agree with you. I know the education system. I was a teacher and an entrepreneur.
However, I find that many teachers are disconnected from reality. They are focused on programs and evaluations.
Education is valued in poor countries, highly criticized and devalued in rich countries.

Its more about program and evaluations is true and one more thing that changes a lot "money" in the rich countries ...it is a business

congrats for that

Thnk you
Her mother and both grandparents where teachers so she did not get off light well ok sometimes lol says somthing when teacher don't want there kids in school....

Yep. I teach in a school, but I teach my daughter everything the school doesn't. Indeed I'd rather teach a small group of kids what I think they should know, and teach them how to learn by themselves.

The school system is not really teaching them to read anymore. Some schools have eliminated Cursive. Go check out the new "Common Core" standards they have- take a look at how they teach math. - 2+2 = 4. No not any more under Common Core.

Anyway- I had a Private Grade A School Education and went to some of the Richest Highschools (4 different Rich Highschools) in the Nation- And I've just spent the past few years trying to "UNLEARN" all the Bullshit & Lies .

No it does not take 12 years to teach a kid to - read, write, do math & basic science & biology. Introduction to the arts, philosophy, literature, languages- it could all be done in a lot less time. The real purpose is break us down. Think about it- were most people you know more - individual, free, fun going, Bad ass & courageous - as teens?

I'm from Europe, it's probably still like this in Europe, I have friends who have kids, they tell me many stories.

But I agree it is exactly to break the individual and make them into collectivist zombies.

I want just to inform you, I will copy few sentences from you and put them on my "wall", because I think it's something to think about.....

I agree, and is'nt this situation so unfortunate. Agenda 21 is being rolled out and the globalists must be quite satisfied with the results. Then again, in my opinion, parents have a responsibility to supplement any deficiency in their child's education to give them a good start in life. If the parents are so dumbed-down and cannot carry out this role, then maybe they will just have to be casualties of the rotten system that has caused this to happen, unless somehow we can find a collective solution. I know this sounds insensitive, but as they say," its always darkest before dawn". I can see the light at the end of the tunnel myself though, with Cryptocurrencies taking away the power of the nwo, elite , globalist perpetrators in many ways. Yes, we have a way to go, but if we can play the game the right way, we can take back our world and stop this stuff happening. More people are waking up every day.The peaceful revolution is growing.

Most parents are busy in slavery corporation, no time for compensating the deficiency of the school education for their kids.

I used to be a believer in public education...until i realised my daughter was much happier staying home and reading...took her out of school in grade 9.. my son was much more fortunate...he never went to school.
My daughter is now graduating as a homeschooler and working hard for her SAT. The boy is doing great as a homeschooler, too. He is very much into computers and technology and he really enjoys studying things like coding. He sometimes spends hours on his coding stuff and he comes up with really cool stuff.
Being out of the public education system is basically giving kids their freedom back, the freedom to do what they really want to.

The education system is the most important things in a country.

"essential survival and life skills" change with the context. I might starve on my own trying to live in the Alps 5000 years ago but Ötzi wouldn't even know what to do with an ATM and would probably be rotting in confinement pretty quickly if he were thrust upon our world.

Some of school can be wasteful individually and much of that deals with the cookie-cutter social aspect - but isn't that it's strength too? Socialization? Is there really an escape from the grid today? Should we be taught how to build our own networks to each create our own digital world of one?

I love me some Rousseau myself but understanding more about the world behind and around us, even if divvied up and delivered arbitrarily, is only going to help people. Is the effort necessary for everyone? I'm not sure yet.

If your gripe is with mass compulsory education than we might have some common ground. Those Prussian workers and soldiers were severely needed, hence state investment, whereas now abundance and innovation are chipping away at that value.

BUT whatever conspirators, creators, or producers we aspire to be we're interdependent. There is no going back.

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