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Dumb American Youth(Indoctrinated youts)
cnsnews.com ^ | 10/25/2016 | Walter Williams

Posted on 10/25/2016 6:10:31 AM PDT by rktman

Do you wonder why Sen. Bernie Sanders and his ideas are so popular among American college students? The answer is that they, like so many other young people who think they know it all, are really uninformed and ignorant. You say, "Williams, how dare you say that?! We've mortgaged our home to send our children to college." Let's start with the 2006 geographic literacy survey of youngsters between 18 and 24 years of age by National Geographic and Roper Public Affairs.

Less than half could identify New York and Ohio on a U.S. map. Sixty percent could not find Iraq or Saudi Arabia on a map of the Middle East, and three-quarters could not find Iran or Israel. In fact, 44 percent could not locate even one of those four countries. Youngsters who had taken a geography class didn't fare much better. By the way, when I attended elementary school, during the 1940s, we were given blank U.S. maps, and our assignment was to write in the states. Today such an assignment might be deemed oppressive, if not racist.

According to a Philadelphia magazine article, the percentage of college grads who can read and interpret a food label has fallen from 40 to 30. They are six times likelier to know who won "American Idol" than they are to know the name of the speaker of the House. A high-school teacher in California handed out an assignment that required students to use a ruler. Not a single student knew how.

An article on News Forum for Lawyers titled "Study Finds College Students Remarkably Incompetent" cites a study done by the American Institutes for Research that revealed that over 75 percent of two-year college students and 50 percent of four-year college students were incapable of completing everyday tasks.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: education; todaysyouth; uofdumbassistan
Wouldn't the indoctrination of today's youth be considered child abuse? As stated in the article in different terms, a whole lot of them could cite what's going on with the kardouchians much better than the current state of the country.
1 posted on 10/25/2016 6:10:31 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

...all according to plan. Stupid people need the benevolent government to take care of them, and the only ones that will do that are the Democrats because racism.


2 posted on 10/25/2016 6:22:53 AM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory.)
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To: rktman

Actually, our constitutions state that only “truth” is supposed to be given to the children in our schools....never lies and misinformation.

Since the Marxists took over curricula in 1930s-—and totally by 1970, all the children get is emotional garbage-—like the Neo-Fruedian “Catcher in the Rye” cr*-p-——not the autobiography of Booker T. Washington (for he was a true Christian patriot (can’t have that!!!!!! worldview).

All curriucla produces a worldview-—and the ONLY worldview which Common Core will deliver is an irrational, sodomite, satanic, useful idiot worldview for they will be devoid of all the Wisdom of the Western Civlization-—all the ideas of Jefferson, Adams, Smith, John Locke who the children will be incapable of understanding because of the operant conditioning (into stupidity/ideology). Cognitive Dissonance will be the result of “hearing the Truth” which is the Design of “edukation” today.

It is on purpose. The evil Leftists want Western Civ. to collapse-—they can’t STAND Individualism and God and Natural Rights. (They want irrational, man-made rights and laws—never Rule of Law). They can’t stand the masses to “think” for themselves (have Free Will). They want SLAVES only, so they can herd and cull them at will.

The evil, irrational sodomite, pschopaths (who created the homosexual movement in Germany in 1800 and Feminism to make pederasty normal again, and flip Good and Evil. They knew that had to destroy Christianity (the Natural Family/Truth/Natural Law/Constitution). They had to destroy the ability “to think” in ALL CHILDREN....so they took over the schools (first thing ALL communists do). John Dewey was a communist/humanist.

Fichte’s plan was instigated: (from 1810):

“Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished ... The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.”

Only Classical Christian education gives you a mind like Newton’s and the Founding Father. The Bible was their main “book” of study......and that is why the Leftists banned it-—it created the Age of Reason and Reason is banned-—for emotions/feelings so virtue will be non-existent in children. (They will never be able to “think” for themselves—like the Inca/tribal minds. Only group (non) thinkers). They will be reduced to cattle—totally dehumanized.


3 posted on 10/25/2016 6:35:22 AM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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As always, your comment is worthy of its own post. Thank you for clarifying the point concisely.


4 posted on 10/25/2016 7:20:40 AM PDT by NorthstarMom
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To: rktman; bk1000; savagesusie; NorthstarMom

I believe a huge appeal of most people like Sanders is the vsion of a never-ending party. University and college students do not always do well in the real world because there are no more beer parties at dorms/frat houses/sorority houses and there isn’t any real simple day to day routine that enables them to shut down their critical thinking skills and general resourcefulness.

Once they hit the real world, the bank starts requesting payments on their loans, the work world demands more than just showing up, and of course, they want their employees to contribute. Life isn’t simple anymore and it’s not about safe spaces. These students can’t cope, or won’t cope and they basically prefer to have someone in office who will enable them to shirk paying their own way and someone who will enable them to disregard natural law of life, which is that the smartest and most resourceful stay alive.

I have the firm belief that if you don’t want to do your own research and find some kind of way to get around life’s obstacles, you basically should sink. It’s not child abuse to indoctrinate someone if that person who is subject to indoctrination isn’t willing to think for themselves or find things out for themselves.


5 posted on 10/25/2016 8:50:14 AM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: NorthstarMom

Oh great. Now the doors are gonna need widening. LOL!


6 posted on 10/25/2016 9:37:58 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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It may be that i am in the Deep South....but all the youngsters that come to my plant seem to be aware politically. They know their tools and do a fine job operating and repairing our plant......I like them....maybe these are college grads they are talking about.


7 posted on 10/25/2016 9:52:03 AM PDT by chasio649 (Donald Trump is not the president we need, he is the president SJWs deserve)
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