This is a question I think about a lot. I spend a lot of time pondering the world which my grandparents lived in. How did that world accomplish so much, given how few of them had college degrees and in my grandparents cases, not even high school degrees. Yet the "uneducated" generation, built the skyscrapers in NYC, they built aircraft carriers for WW2, they built airplanes, roads, machines, tools. They farmed the land. (Unfortunately, they also sowed all the seeds for deviating from the constitution, but that's another story)
Society has been snookered about what an education is, its importance, and where it truly comes from.
they have been snookered because liberals took control of the education industy. Like everything else liberals run...they destroyed it.
—— Society has been snookered about what an education is, its importance, and where it truly comes from.——
That’s for sure. Google the essay, “The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher,” and see if it doesn’t resonate with you.
If it does, you can read Gatto’s magnum opus, The Underground History of American Education, on-line for free. It will answer your questions.
Sadly, it will also give you an idea of the gravity of our situation. An economic collapse, ironically enough, might put our culture on the fast-track to recovery, because non-essentials will be quickly discarded.
Take at hazard one hundred children of several educated generations and one hundred uneducated children of the people and compare them in anything you please; in strength, in agility, in mind, in the ability to acquire knowledge, even in morality—and in all respects you are startled by the vast superiority on the side of the children of the uneducated.
— Count Leo Tolstoy, “Education and Children” (1862)
We’ve been had.