What's The Purpose Of Education?

[Deega]

Here's Ken Robinson on "How to escape education's death valley" on TED video.

"Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish — and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational "death valley" we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility".

https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robins...s_death_valley

The best to everyone.

[Innocent Warrior]

Programming.

[apokalypse]

i was suck in maths in high school even my parents paid me go to tutorials, i wasn't into learning but once i go to Uni things go opposite. I got a pass on for maths subjects which basically advance maths in year 11-12. I can' believe got a good a pass of 2 years high school maths for 18 also weeks.

from my experience you learn more outside school than inside...

[huyi82]

school teaches you to be compliant, and to be a docile slave when you are a adult and to prepare you for the working slave society we live in so that we can "survive" in the real world, that is all school is about, i don't blame some parents from homeschooling their kids.

[Natalia]

[Frenchy]

quotes two and five are priceless !

[lizfrench]

The purpose of education? Public schooling is social engineering. Prison for kids. Babysitter for parents. Creativity is barely part of the equation, along with recess. I home school my daughter, she reads many, many books and is very grounded.

[seah]

The purpose of education within the school system is to teach children how to follow rules, lineup straight, ingest propaganda and repeat it as fact.

[enfoldedblue]

My latest article was on this topic. It hasn't been published yet so I can't link the whole article ... but here is the start:

“The world got compulsion schooling at the end of a state bayonet for the first time in human history; modern forced schooling started in Prussia in 1819 with a clear vision of what centralized schools could deliver:
1. Obedient soldiers to the army;
2. Obedient workers to the mines;
3. Well subordinated civil servants to government;
4. Well subordinated clerks to industry
5. Citizens who thought alike about major issues.”
– John Taylor Gatto

Schools have never been about the needs of children. Since their inception they have been about creating a populace that caters to the desires of the ruling class. Corporate leaders and their allies in government have continually worked to shape education to fit the requirements of industry. They are not interested in developing independent, self-directed individuals with the capacity to think critically and originally; they benefit from creating a malleable, suggestible, obedient and competitive population that accepts being instructed, monitored, assessed and controlled from the top down.

[Dupont]

The negative points of the learning systems that schools offer, the purpose and why are they designed this way, are pretty obvious in my opinion as long as a little research is done. Even it's clear
that when you are an adult or begin to be one, if you are interested, you can leave this designed path learning on your own skills and subjects that are really useful in your life.

But on the other hand, i can't figure out, what could be the alternative for a 4,6,8.... years old kid who lives in a country with obligatory education, where all his friends goes to school and his parents thinks that it will be the best for him because they were taught to think like this.

Maybe living in a community with parents and teachers concerned in teach the best for him? But still, if this kind of communities would exist, it will need that the parents move, left his home town, the entry doors
of some jobs will be closed for him, as they will required the x years attending the pre-designated education, an so on...

There's no easy way out, the trap is very well set up.

[Atlas]

Posted by Sophocles (here)
Prince EA - THE PEOPLE VS THE SCHOOL SYSTEM: I JUST SUED THE SCHOOL SYSTEM !!!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dqTTojTija8

[Sophocles]

Cross posted from the Horus-Ra as the Archontic Alien Parasite: A follow-up interview with Maarit -thread:

The paradox of "education":

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JVqMAlgAnlo

And how it came to be...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HZp7eVJNJuw

...in other words...:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=eeEWPbTad_Q

[ponda]

Whistleblower Explains How Education System Targets ‘Resistors’

source

Isaac Davis, Staff Writer
Waking Times

“I was taught really how to con the community.” ~Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt

Charlotte Iserbyt has a long history of work with the U.S. Department of Education as a former policy advisor during the Reagan administration, as well as having worked for local school districts. In her seminal book, The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, she tells the story of how her interest in educating children was overshadowed by the dark truth of the modern education system, and the top-down plan to overhaul education to achieve statist aims.

As the reality that education is used against us sinks in for everyday Americans, her work becomes ever more valuable, and of the many startling truths she has revealed, one fact stands out as particularly relevant to today’s environment, where the nanny state increasingly usurps authority over individual and family decisions, turning us into de facto agents of state control.

Speaking in an interview, Iserbyt explains how school system functionaries are trained to identify resistors, the parents among us whom would dare to object to the unreasonable changes in schools and educational programs.

‘I was trained to identify the resistors. The resistors to the sex-ed, drug-ed, alcohol-ed, suicide-ed, death-ed, those sgood, smart Americans who realize that anything that education hanging off the end of it is probably not what they’re looking for. I was trained to identify those good people, and to go up against them, and actually to go and try to get them to join us through the group process system. Make them feel important, get them on a committee… and that just blew my mind.” ~Charlotte Iserbyt

How does the school system manage to force programs onto local districts which would never want such programs? How do they con people into accepting new ideas for education that really don’t make sense for their communities?

The answer is that the system actually trains members of the school system to identify, target, and recruit the right people in a community, so that others will play follow-the-leader with people whom they trust.

“Not only was I trained to identify the resistors, I was trained to go to the improtant people, high profile, highly thought of people in the community, with the Rotary, Chamber of Commerce Garden Club, you name it. The different groups in our towns. Go to them and convince them of the importance of these new programs… and get them on your side, because when you can get the leadership in a community to go along with it, then the newspaper comes in and says, a committee’s been set up with the head of the Rotary, and this and that, and they’re all getting behind this task force to discuss whether we’re going to have a new sex education program. And then, when Mary Jones, who would ordinarily think, why would we want to have a sex education program when we don’t have any problems with kids having sex or anything… she reads that her best friend who’s the head of the Garden Club is on this committee… it must be OK.” ~Charlotte Iserbyt

Iserbyt talks briefly about the training manual for district employees which teaches them to be good agents of the state. Written by Professor Ronald Havelock, Innovations in Education: A Change Agent’s Guide is the manual for turning the American school system into a Stasi-like program of group think and mindless acquiescence. Yes, there really is a manual which teaches educators how to monitor and interdict parents who wish to have a say in how their children are educated, and according to Iserbyt, it is quite revolting, and very effective.

The end result of a government program which targets and neutralizes dissenters and resistors is nation-wide conformity with educational objectives which serve the interest of the corporate state while failing children and families.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DDyDtYy2I0M

[Houman]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VkauMnNfI_o

[Atlas]

Posted by Houman (here)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkauMnNfI_o

This is correct, the president of the U.S. should care about American children, not about some 'fake' war somewhere far in the middle east.

Donald Trump - Broken Education System

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nDMWwf_taz8

[Houman]

Cross post from https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...=1#post1145195

About 6 moths ago I had a discussion with a colleague (involved in exotic stuff) about Trump being the "peace candidate"... at the time he told me that the best description for Trump would be the following video (people will hear what they want to hear and he will do what he wants to do)... recent events seem to prove him right...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CNZA6yGGOYc

[Wizard Of Ozark]

The purpose of education would seem to depend on the intentions of those doing/coordinating the educating. And that changes just like everything changes. It's an impartation of worldview and knowledge which seeks to socialize the learner in accordance to the educator's wishes. Education is a powerful concept and can change the world in powerful ways. To deny a people an informed education is to wage war against their positive futures.