Posted on 02/20/2023 8:06:46 AM PST by Twotone
There have been various surveys taken about the most important inventions that impacted civilization. These can be hard to rank when you consider indoor plumbing, electricity, the internal combustion engine, and more. Life magazine did this survey decades ago and many others have followed, but here is the surprising result. Life magazine’s #1 invention was the printing press and this was in the top three in almost every other ranking. When you think of it, that had an impact on religion with reformation, political discussions, and governments and of course scientific development.
In 1647 Massachusetts passed the “Old Deluder Satan Act” laying the basis for public schools in America. The religious basis of the act was explicit: the act stated its intention was to thwart “ye old deluder, Satan” in his goal “to keepe men from the knowledge of ye Scriptures.” To this end, the law required every town with 50 or more families to hire and maintain a teacher to instruct all children in reading and writing. Towns of 100 or more families were required to support a grammar school to prepare students to read the Bible. Similar acts were soon adopted in the other New England colonies.
Today, if you get the opportunity, ask your superintendent of schools or even a principal or school board member these questions: “What do you see the nature of man to be -and- what should be his purpose in life?” The person you are talking to will invariably answer, “We don’t deal with questions like that.” Instead, we are grooming children about sexuality at the earliest grade levels and asking them to assign their pronouns and gender. A discussion of our history and heritage based on our Judeo-Christian principles are somehow a violation of the Constitution...
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You need at least some education to formulate prompts for ChatGPT.
My father impressed on me learning the English language, so I may tell when the government is lying.
We need to take a close look at our education system.
Not all brains develop at the same rate.
We have a fast food education system and we are expecting it to turn out gourmet food.
We have to first decide what a good person is.
Then, we educate to produce that kind of person.
The govt is lying when its mouth moves.
Not all students are lawyer doctor fodder, parents can be unrealistic when it comes to this making them feel as thought their son or daughter is stupid or unable to climb the ladder of success. Missing from the curriculum or I should say un advertised, pushed or brought up from the basement is a physical trade like plumber, AC mech, electrician, maintenance, carpenter. These are great vehicles for success and good wages for a good life. Sadly the education system run by the extortion of the government is useless social degrees that only lead to loans that have to be paid back and nothing more.
Yes, sadly these skills were removed at the behest of liability lawyers. I was always college bound (I could master math and science anyway) but I got wood and metal shop and electronics shop too. I floundered in these classes but did learn some basics. I could have selected a contracting trade (and made more than I did as an enegineer) but I was destined to go into engineering the moment that the USSR flew Sputnik.
I talked with a retired school principal more recently and she lamented that the schools missed out by dropping the trade classes but she did not know how to bring them back.
Government education is designed to create dumb and obedient servants of the state.
It is the parents who want education to teach their children moral standards and useful skills in life.
We have the technology to get “education” away from the government and in the hands of parents.
All we need is the will to make it happen.
It is absurd to delegate a lower status education to people who will ultimately be working in these 'hands on' sectors.
See Mike Rowe's website and show for more evidence of this whole frame of mind.
Education today should be classical for everyone, as it was in the nineteenth century up to the high school level. It should also offer exposure to manufacturing and practial things. Gosh, that is kind of what it already is.
The problem is that discipline is lax to nonexistent, and assignments are generally so soft that the students have time and inclination to get into trouble and become worthless.
Fortunately students are malleable and the education system can be fixed rather quickly, and lost progress can be made up.
Solution: statewide vouchers for all public and private schools, or homeschooling arrangements. Let all compete for students to stay alive as viable schools.
I know lots of booksmart people who would be in much better shape had they had some practical, hands on shop, drafting, pottery, metalsmithing, or other type of work.
Don't ask me about the underlying neurophysiology of it but I know that the brain develops along a number of parallel lines and the more different things young students do, the better the growth and ultimate ability of the brain and person are.
The printing press is up there, but there are plenty of others that helped get us where we are (or are not)....
-Walking upright
-Stone tools
-Agriculture
-Governance (early Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus Valley & Chinese Yellow River civilizations
-Bronze, copper, iron, and metallurgy
-Religion (monotheist)
There are many more before you get to the printing press.
Get the idea?
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