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Originally Posted by Vanilla
Somehow I think that her medals and scholarship is far more important than a gold star. You know that awards like that get you amazing jobs right? I got a scholarship and have had plenty of work thrown my way. I'm stilling doing more study though.
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Gold stars is where it starts. That's when the conditioning begins. Because the aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment; it is to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
The education system is very successful in imprinting the following:
1. Truth comes from authority
2. Intelligence is the ability to remember and repeat
3. Accurate memory and repetition are rewarded
4. Non compliance is punished
5. Conform: intellectually and socially
Public education does not encourage critical thinking or imagination. It does not teach emotional intelligence. It does not encourage the pupils to work together to solve problems. It does not seek and help develop an individuals natural skills and abilities. It creates pupils to fit in to its social and economic system.
The truly illiterate of the 21st century are not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
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Originally Posted by Paul Smeenus
Charlie, not that I actually wanna know, but what were you doing when you weren't here? Don't ya miss it, whatever it was? Wouldn't you like to get back to doing that, TODAY? It's gotta be more interesting than us worthless souls like Meg winning scholastic achievements and earning degrees and scholarships and so forth.
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Nowhere did I suggest that Meg was worthless. Indeed I was careful to not allude to that by saying if she is happy on here chosen path in life then that is fantastic. It was the accolades I called worthless.