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Originally Posted by TSGracchus
We've been talking about this "invisible government" over on the other thread. Specifically as regards education, what in your opinion is the agenda of the people you're talking about? You mentioned earlier something about "rewriting American history." It is certainly true that U.S. history as taught in school today is very different from the way it was taught decades ago. For example, there was a time when the brutality inflicted on the American Indians was not covered at all when discussing westward expansion, and when schools in the south glossed over the issue of slavery. Education today is a lot less uncritically patriotic than it used to be. Is this the sort of thing you're talking about? On the face of it, this change seems to me to be a good one; how does it serve the agenda of the "invisible government" you're talking about? Or do you mean something else?
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I agree that there have been some positive changes over the years but my problem with compulsory education is that it is about socialization rather than instilling critical thinking skills. People are taught to be subservient to authority, which is completely antithetical to the development of the type of citizenry that a genuine democracy requires.
Is it any wonder then that our politics is infected with corruption and that monied interests are the only ones to gain a fair hearing? Well, no, no surprise at all, and the only way to get this turned around would be to reorient education.