Greg
The real
danger we face is, that when the educataion system does fail those who have sought its
destruction will be able to recreate education in a new kind of
segregation. Failure of the Public
Schools will allow the creation of private schools that will operate as the
education system for a new aristocracy based on economic status. We will find that education will become the
most important factor in the determination your social caste, yes I said caste.
I see momentum for a return of the Social
Darwinist attitudes of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which empowered certain
individuals to see themselves as a chosen elite based some sort of natural
selection. Of course this is just my
take on the direction education is going in America and how it will affect the
future. I am sure there are many who see
Public Education as just another way to redistribute the wealth, in this case
intellectual, of the nation and they will nay say my comment as socialist
dribble because they fail to understand, that the purpose of public education is to level the
playing field for every human being in America regardless of race, color, age,
sex, economic success, or any other factor.
After all history tells us that when
people are given the opportunity to become educated and valued assets; they
will rise to the occasion.
Greg, I believe the politicians, neo-academics, and business people who are driving education
today see Public Schools as a frontier open for conquest, redirection, and
development. They see a world that seems
to them disorganized, chaotic, and
wild. Like 19th century Imperialist
these people believe they have an opportunity to profit from the extraction of
raw materials for their enterprises while painting themselves as humanitarians
and missionaries reaching out to save the less informed
[teachers and students] in education from misguided
ignorance. In the end they will take
everything and give back nothing; leaving the American Public Education system as crippled
and desolate as a third world country.
Mark
This letter was also written as a response to a thread on Facebook.
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