Here’s the problem — even if most Americans don’t fall for it, it doesn’t matter.
They continue to vote for people in Washington who will use this as basis for MORE WELFARE, MORE TAXES, MORE REGULATION and MORE COERCION.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
I’m afraid most voters are NOT vigilant at all.
B I N G O!
We have a completely shallow and unprofessional mob of ‘journalists’ who encourage this kind of thing.
They have forgotten how to BE journalists (i.e. RIGOROUS, UNBIASED. OBJECTIVE)
The most recent Gallup Trust poll (there was a thread on it a few days ago) had “big business” as being in the bottom five (along with Congress and the Press) when it comes to trustworthiness.
Con artists know this, know that the gut reaction of the public is going to be to believe the little guy over the big corporation.
But it’s also a reinforcing feedback loop, in that stories like this are accepted as truth (even after being discredited) and serve to further erode trust ...
Dewey's educational theories were presented in My Pedagogic Creed (1897), The School and Society (1900), The Child and the Curriculum (1902), Democracy and Education (1916) and Experience and Education (1938). Throughout these writings, several recurrent themes ring true; Dewey continually argues that education and learning are social and interactive processes, and thus the school itself is a social institution through which social reform can and should take place... (Wikipedia)
it has worked beautifully... people are under the impression that we have public education... we do not... it is government education and has been for a long time... the public, local citizen have no say in their children's education... and it baffles me that conservatives hand their children over to the government day after day, year after year...
an excellent but very heavy book on the subject: The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto...
mis dos centavos...