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Prisons.
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https://19thcenturyamericaneducation.weebly.com/prussian-model.html
The Prussian education system was designed to indoctrinate children from age 6 to 16 into full compliance with the state and its military leaders. It was born of Prussia's military failings in the Napoleonic Wars.1 The system consisted of tiers, with all education being free for eight years.0 The aim was to keep the ruling elites in power while encouraging the masses to be loyal to the government.3 Today, the Prussian education system is the model for education in many modern nations, including the United States.2
There are lots of different ways to educate children.
The Prussian model is just one, but it seems to be the only one most people will accept, and it was "designed to keep the ruling elites in power."
First of all: Our “public schools” ceased to exist in the 1970s...
We have had only “government schools” since then...
Also, the children were the parents’ children but they have been the government’s children since the 1970s...
“Public schools” were controlled by parents in the neighborhoods where the students lived...
It was one of the key factors in the United States having the finest education system on the planet...
“Government schools” are controlled by federal bureaucrats, including the courts...
It was the key factor in the ascension of communist tyranny and the shackles under which we now exist...
In the late 1800s, the Marxist Fabians predicted and planned the takeover of the American education system as the ONLY way to defeat capitalism and impose Marxism in the United States..
They did the job...
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Thank you for this excellent article.
I find it very interesting that he saw the very thing public education has descended to way back in the early 1900's.
I work with two 40+ guys who had a, “wait, what?” moment a few years ago when I informed them that Abe Lincoln was indeed the first Republican President.
I agree with Mencken. Once you do that you have no alternative than to eliminate government schools. They are filled with idiot teachers and administrators. Either they all need to be replaced or an alternative must be used to teach children. I homeschooled my children as that was the alternative twenty years ago.
The way in which the Democrat Party thinks of Blacks, is no different now than when Lyndon Johnson created the policy.