Status Updates From Weapons of Mass Instruction...

“The social order to which he and Smith belonged was held together by deliberately depriving most people of information they needed to maximize opportunities. If secrets were promiscuously distributed, the ladders of privilege would collapse, their own children would be plunged back into the common stew. It was unthinkable.”

“When you believe in determinism-biological, psychological, and sociological, or theological (and schools believe in all those in various times and places), the very idea of feedback leading to growth must be held at arms length.”

Quote from the first month of my teaching career of 30 years, I realize that intellectual Power, creative, insight, and good character we’re being diminished in my classroom and that indeed I have been hired for precisely that purpose. I was a clerk and a vast penitentiary; the rules and procedures where the guards.”

“… School is not a good place for your kids.”

“The principal reason bureaucracies are so stupid as they cannot respond efficiently to feedback. Think of school management, compelled by law to follow. The rules made long ago and far away.-as if human situations are so formula they can be codified.“

“… A few of the best classes… were to be held to a traditional standard. As for the others, the mass of fairly well-behaved kids was mixed with an infusion of violent, restless, disruptive students until only a primitive level of instruction was possible… b/c reasonably patient children became angry at a teacher’s ineffectiveness in maintaining order, many of the polite kids joined the destructors too.”

“The degree of disrespect our nation has assigned its ordinary population wouldn’t be possible unless somewhere in the command centers it hadn’t been decided that common men and women should be stripped of any power to Rebel and that they could be lied to without compunction, because their dignity didn’t count. Or their lives.“

“In the thousands of hours, I’ve spent in teachers rooms and teachers meetings, not a single soul beside yourself was open to discussing anything profound about our notions of pedagogy, nothing that could get them in trouble. Shirli that intellectual vacuum says something terrible about the business, which has swallowed up your life in my own.“

“The steep decline in common prosperity over 90 years of intense for schooling, drove both parents from the home to work, depositing their children and the man systems of daycare and extended schooling. Despite a century long herring that schooling is the cure for an evenly spread wealth, exactly the reverse occurred. Wealth was 250% more concentrated at centuries and then edit to beginning.“

‘Goddard believed, standardized test scores used as a signal for privileged treatment would cause the lower classes to come face-to-face, with their own biological inferiority. It would be like wearing a public dense cap. Exactly the function ‘special education’ delivers today.”

“For the first two centuries of our existence, such an institution would’ve been unthinkable-Young were too valuable a part of economic and social reality. Indispensable, in fact. But when the young were signed to consume, not produce; when they were ordered to be passive, not active as a part of the general society, the schools we have were the inevitable result of this transformation.“

“The transformation of the school from a place of modest ambition, centering around, reading, writing, arithmetic, and decency into behavioral training laboratory ordered up by “certain industrialist and the innovative, who are altering the nature of industrial process”, has acted to poison the American experiment.”

“… Designing education for the future belies
It’s benign title and would repay a disciplined readthrough of its semiliterate pros. Produced by the US office of education, it redefined education after the depression fashion, as a “means to achieve, important, economic, and social goals of natural characterization.“

“… Designing education for the future, Isa. It’s benign title and would repay a disciplined readthrough of its semiliterate pros. Produced by the US office of education, it redefined education after the depression fashion, as a “means to achieve, important, economic, and social goals of natural characterization.“

Bluhm inspired programs are constructed so has to offer useful data for controlling the minds and movements of the young.- mapping the next adult generation for various agencies of social engineering.“

“Bloom spawned a hoard of descendent forms: mastery learning; outcome based education; school to work; classroom/business partnerships and more. You can detect Bluhm at work and any initiative which seeks to classify students for the convenience of social managers and businesses.”

“Drawing on the new technology of ‘behavioral psychology’, children would be forced to learn, ‘proper’ thoughts, feelings, and actions, while improper attitudes brought from home or ‘remediated’.“

“… An executive Director of the national education Association announced that the NEA expected ‘to accomplish by education what dictators in Europe are seeking to do by compulsion and force’.“

“… The whole game of rearing the Young was being taken over by the experts… Family after all was a retrograde institution, why should mom and dad know better than the experts how to bring up baby?“

“. . . the dream of Darwin and Galton would become reality through the agency of public education, ‘designed to check the mating of the unfit’. The dream of the scientific population control.“

“Calhoun wrote that the fondest wish of utopian thinkers was coming true: children were passing from blood families ‘n into the custody of the community expert’.“

“We don’t need Karl Marx‘s conception of grand warfare between the classes to see that it is in the interest of complex management, economic, or political, to dumb people down, to demoralize them, to divide them from one another and to discard them if they don’t conform.“