Education: The American Way (Video)

By on March 12, 2012 in News, Podcasts 26

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  • DeepCough

    Truth is, the U.S. has gotten too big, and paradoxically enough, there is no more room for action or thought individual of the state.

  • Knowershark

    And all this time I thought I was the only one who noticed or was stupid enough to mention it

  • Lakota

    I feel bad for a lot of kids these days. You can see this bogging down on them, like a fog and the poor things don’t know how to learn. Their gears turning, but nothing is really connecting. Some are pretty smart, but they get sucked up into the rat race.

    • Marklar_Prime

      This isn’t new. Certainly it’s gotten worse as the U.S. has fallen into open fascism but it was always there. I certainly noticed it while I was in school during the 70s and early 80s. The same rote information rehashed again and again with no thought to actually educating anyone and more emphasis on obeying the system without question. I couldn’t put names and faces on it the way I can now nor did I know it was quite so consciously plotted as it has been, but it was right there in my face for me to see.

      Look up the original words of Rockefeller, John Dewey, Henry Ford and others who had a hand in creating the education system. Check out the information provided by former NY teacher of the year John Taylor Gatto on this subject as well.This is a deep and well documented conspiracy of the unquestionable variety and it should piss off every American who examines it to no end.

  • Camron Wiltshire

    Thanks for commenting guys.  I know we all are aware of the multitude of issues facing us and so I thought I would point out just one organization that is committed to the auto didactic path and is creating the framework for a renascence of American independence.  Much respect to TragedyandHope.com and all of it’s producers.

  • Misinformation

    I always enjoy Brett’s delivery. 

  • Redacted

    Luckily Ron Paul would defund and destroy Education. Then we can go back to the Ox and Plow, and everything should just be ok.

    • Misinformation

      Hear, hear for hyperbole!

    • Earaches

      You forgot to put quotation marks around “Education,” which, I believe, was the whole point of the post – yes?

    • DeepCough

      If Ron Paul took down the Department of Education–there’d be no difference.

  • Evanb151

    There seems to be an ever-increasing argument against traditional education, and this video shows why.  Take a look at the college graduates who were promised the world if they got a degree, only to be saddled with debt they can never repay and forced to work a monotonous, soul-crushing job for the remainder of their lives.  Everything taught K-12 can easily be self-taught through textbooks and websites.  Our society needs fewer ass-kissing social climbers.  This video should be shown to all parents before enrolling their children in school, followed by a questionaire: “Having watched this video, are you absolutely positive you want your child to follow orders with blind obedience?”  The public school system has failed everyone.  Adults wonders why the youth of the nation are killing themselves, using illegal drugs, acting out, disobeying, etc.  These children are rejecting the garbage they are being force-fed and I hope following the world’s next large-scale armed conflict it disappears for good.

  • Matt Harris

    You guys need to remember that this is why there is sweeping educational change going on as we speak. If you take a moment to look at schooling from the school’s side you will see that there is a massive movement to discard the traditional and obsolete methods of teaching. Instead, we are fostering a system of STUDENT driven discovery and we have a new generation of teachers entering schools that have been given the insight to see the past mistakes. I agree, there has been too much didacticism in our schools and I have retrospectively been a victim of it as well.This video is rather hypocritical in the sense that it preaches about this blind obedience to whatever information you are fed yet it does not go into any of the current issues taking place in education today. Think before you believe. This is true, no matter the context (school or disinfo.com). Don’t believe that you are somehow more informed and more highly educated than anyone else because you can type a URL.

    • Misinformation

       In regard to blind obedience, this video is 8 minutes long. Not exactly the equivalent of 15K hours of public schooling. There is plenty of opportunity for further study that the video hints at. I’m curious, who is giving the “new generation of teachers”, the insights you speak of?

    • Guest

       Current student centered trends like…. Common Core State Standards (national curriculum), The PARCC and SMARTER/Balanced assessment consortia work (national tests), federal college readiness mandates (every kid must be college track), the pressure from Washington for states to raise the age of compulsory ed from 16 to 18? 

      A careful look at many of policy statements around education show that the apparent pedagogical shift towards student-centered learning is less about giving kids control of their own learning and more about reshuffling which aspects kids wre uill get control of.  We don’t have the industrial factories of previous years so we are creating a whole new generation of interchangeable disposable wage slaves for the information and service industries.  Maybe the teacher isn’t telling you to memorize a bunch of dates in history class now, but they are telling you what the content and outcome of your project has to look like, what materials and resources you are allowed to use, and who you have to work with to get it done.  It’s still a lesson in blind obedience. 

  • Bakerstreetconspiracy

    Yes, there are major problems with the education system.  And yes, school can be indoctrinating, creatively stifling and all the rest.  However, the argument that outdated standardized curriculum = nazis is not new, interesting or accurate.  The whole “SchoolSucks” message is eerily similar to the anti-school daydreams of an eighth grader who falls asleep in Spanish class.  

  • Okarin

    i dropped out of college and waiting for my program to offered at costco because they can provide it for cheaper and no one will notice a difference if employers still demand a degree for a job. thinking idiocracy

    • D.D.B.

       The film you speak of is becoming reality! And Clevon is winning. Everyone should see Idiocracy.

  • Antediluvian
    • Camron Wiltshire

      Nailed it.  Thank you Antediluvian.  Nice name btw.  In to alternative history?

      • Antediluvian

        Thanks!  And yes I am!  Even though I have studied the consensus story, I think a revision will be inevitable sooner or later.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JR6QMHI5D3L6Z4JJBSAKO4KJBE brock

    Beware short form videos that tell you what to think to a bad muzak soundtrack. Goebbels would have loved Youtube. John Gatto does some great in depth exploration of the Prussian schooling system, but even his work has a lot of questionable assumptions.

    • Camron Wiltshire

      Where exactly did you pick up that this video “tells you what to think”?  I’m just curious because it is pretty much diametrically opposed to the intention of the piece, that being to Encourage free thinking and to question “authority”.

      Also you have just made an insinuation Gatto’s work without specifically citing any particular flaw. Do you care to clarify or is it your intention to “kill the messenger”?

      • Scruffythinking

        The video outright says that schools are meant to kill creativity and individual thought in favor of state indoctrination. So it’s telling you that’s what you should think when you think about schools.

        I became skeptical when he said schools don’t teach you the “why.” I spent two quarters in two different years of high school reading and discussing the “why” of the rise of Nazi Germany. We spent over a week watching the unedited version of Das Boot in a history class. And my shackling school also allowed me to do a semester-long independent study on the Charles Manson murders. That was a public school, by the way. The problem is a sweeping generalization like that only needs one exception to disprove the rule. If there are any examples of students being allowed to explore creativity or do independent research, the assumption is negated.One other example: One of my wife’s students did two independent film studies with her, and spun that off to create five of her own short films that explored the connections between symbolism and editing. The independent studies got her into a summer film school at NYU, and the films then got her into the NYU film program. Her studies were independently driven, her pieces were her own creations, and that happened at a public school. 

        • Camron Wiltshire

          What it is doing is summarizing the immense source material which distinctly states the purpose of the modern “Schule” system is to in fact create a “nation of workers, not a nation of thinkers”, as Rockefeller and his ilk had desired.

          You are missing the forest for the trees and presuming that one instance, (in this case your personal anecdote recalling still a limited perspective on why WW2 came to be and who was behind it), overrides 100 + years of institutional suppression of facts and of removing intentionally the means by which one can become independent of authority (trivium and quadrivium in their proper order)

          Again bringing up examples that show that the system does allow leeway from time to time does not overwrite or discredit the reality that the prussian style of education was designed explicitly to create “better” workers and soldiers, who would have their independent impulses supplanted over 15,000 overs of repetitive conditioning enabling the travesties of logic and justice that are far too commonplace.

          We had field day at my school, we even went on field trips.  I still can recall vividly though the stultifying atmosphere forcing me to rise at a predestined time, arrive at (work/schule) at a predestined time or face consequences of (detention/imprisonment) and to raise my hand if I needed to use the bathroom.  You may have had glimpses of sunlight but that does not mean you weren’t in prison the rest of the time.

          And if you disagree ask yourself what the consequences are for someone who  doesn’t go to schule as prescribed by the state and the various means of police state coercion that are employed if you buck the system.

          Are you also a teacher or just your wife?  Do you find that you may be hesitant to imagine the foundations of her/your? chosen profession may be less than honorable or that you may have been misled about the overall agenda as dictated by robber barons like John D. Rockefeller?  

          I sure would be.  Have you done any other research outside of this one 8 minute compilation (trailer) to verify the material?  What do you think of three time NY teacher of the year John Taylor Gatto’s work which fuels in large part these revelations?