The limits of education.

[Unkotare]

Congrats, insight is important.

Right over your head.

 

[Meathead]

Right over your head.

Going, going, gone. Ciao.

 

[Foxfyre]

You know who were the absolute best at teaching kids about "unbridled human nature"? The Puritans!

Where else can you learn your ABCs and Original Sin all at the same time?

It's been oft noted that Marxists are the modern day Puritans.

Anyone who says Marxists are the modern day Puritans has zero education in history.

The Puritans believed in God, religious faith and family as first and foremost most important in community life.

Marxism rejectsand/or forbids God/religious faith and does not consider family necessary.

The Puritans believed in elected leaders and government by representation. Marxism is the exact opposite.

Puritans believed in private property protected by reasonable laws agreed to by the people. Marxism requires abolition of private property.

"The Booke of the General Lawes and Liberties" was the legal "Bible" governing almost all the laws and policies of at least the Plymouth Puritans. That document would be banned and burned by Marxists.

I'm pretty sure none of this is taught in our 'woke' institutions of education though. So it's understandable that so many leftists simply repeat leftist propaganda and honestly have no clue what they are saying.

 

[psikeyhackr]

We know that education cannot overcome the power of human nature, but shouldn't our kids be taught that most of the problems education seeks to address are not caused by lack of knowledge but by unbridled human nature?

"Man isn't a thief because he steals. He steals because he is a thief." - (The late) Adrian Rogers.

What if he steals because no one explained the Economic Power Game to him, or his parents or their parents.

Economics makes more sense if you think of it as a Power Game. The traditional social structure has decided that most people are supposed to be losers. The US could have easily made accounting mandatory in high schools since 1950.

Who even thought of it?

Economic Wargames

 

[Woodznutz]

What if he steals because no one explained the Economic Power Game to him, or his parents or their parents.

Economics makes more sense if you think of it as a Power Game. The traditional social structure has decided that most people are supposed to be losers. The US could have easily made accounting mandatory in high schools since 1950.

Who even thought of it?

Economic Wargames

We had the same guidance counsellor all through junior and senior high school. Every student was interviewed by him each school year. I don't recall ever getting any 'guidance' from him. Imo, all he was doing was collecting information on us. For what purpose, I don't know.

The only personal interaction I ever had in HS was with a social studies teacher that I had in 12th grade. He pulled me aside and told me that if I didn't pass his course I wouldn't graduate with my class, and that I was failing his course.

I knuckled down and finished the course with a B and graduated with my class. I don't know if he was bluffing but I didn't want to chance it.

 

[psikeyhackr]

We had the same guidance counsellor all through junior and senior high school. Every student was interviewed by him each school year. I don't recall ever getting any 'guidance' from him. Imo, all he was doing was collecting information on us. For what purpose, I don't know.

I remember the term "guidance counselor" but I don't recall talking to one. I think it was voluntary.

I started reading Science Fiction in 4th grade. I was mostly ignoring the nuns by 6th grade. I decided to go to college for engineering in 7th grade. I was debating between mechanical and electrical engineering by junior year of high school. I went with electrical.

I dropped out after sophomore year intending to take a Gap Year or two. But fixing electronics every day was more fun than school. I got the job because of what I taught myself in high school not the theoretical bullshit from college.

Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics by Stan Gibilisco

We should have a K-12 National Recommended Reading List.

A lot of authors and publishing companies would not like it. The majority of books are mediocre to crap. Who would buy them if they had a list of good to excellent books?

The Tyranny of Words by Stuart Chase

The Screwing of the Average Man by David Hapgood

 

[Woodznutz]

I remember the term "guidance counselor" but I don't recall talking to one. I think it was voluntary.

I started reading Science Fiction in 4th grade. I was mostly ignoring the nuns by 6th grade. I decided to go to college for engineering in 7th grade. I was debating between mechanical and electrical engineering by junior year of high school. I went with electrical.

I dropped out after sophomore year intending to take a Gap Year or two. But fixing electronics every day was more fun than school. I got the job because of what I taught myself in high school not the theoretical bullshit from college.

Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics by Stan Gibilisco

We should have a K-12 National Recommended Reading List.

A lot of authors and publishing companies would not like it. The majority of books are mediocre to crap. Who would buy them if they had a list of good to excellent books?

The Tyranny of Words by Stuart Chase

The Screwing of the Average Man by David Hapgood

I was always a high energy person who likes to work with his hands. Still at it at 85.