The absurd notion that striving for correct answers in mathematics is racist crosses the line into crazyville more than anything else the left has conjured up from their cauldron of evil schemes. I know that in their progressive world 4 + 4 = 7 (Not 9. With all leftist ideas you always get less than you put into it.); but that will not work in science and engineering. For example, if you are designing a bridge and use an incorrect calculation to determine what the size and strength of a support needs to be, no one is going to want to drive across that bridge. Worse yet we assume that all the calculations could be wrong. We will be lucky if it even looks like a bridge when they erect it.
They are teaching a history that has no relation to
reality. Students who supposedly
completed some sort of geography instruction cannot find Somalia on a map or
for that matter their own home. And don’t
get me started on English and grammar. At
what point does the use of semicolons become racist?
So, it would appear all of us are paying enormous sums of
money for something that is not being provided, namely an education. My own experiences teaching chemistry to
non-science majors clearly demonstrates that the science curriculum in high
schools lacks any credibility. So, if
students are graduating from high school without any meaningful knowledge of
mathematics, history, English, geography, or science, what exactly are they
being taught?
Elias B. Caldwell, a clerk for the Supreme Court from 1800 –
1825 who wanted to see an end to slavery stated,
“The more you improve the condition of
these people, the more you cultivate their minds, the more miserable you make
them, in their present state. You give them a higher relish for those privileges
which they can never attain and turn what we intend for a blessing into a
curse. No, if they must remain in their present situation, keep them in the
lowest state of degradation and ignorance. The nearer you bring them to the
condition of brutes, the better chance do you give them of possessing their
apathy.”
Basically, he is saying that if you want to keep a people
enslaved, keep them ignorant and illiterate.
I have to assume that this is the ultimate objective of our progressive
educational system. America has an elite
class that believes they are better qualified to direct your life than you
are. Think about how that relates to the
concept of slavery. If you combine the
institution of slavery as practiced in the South with the Orwellian inventions
of 1984 you pretty much define the Progressive Movement. I would love for someone with more knowledge
than me to expand on this idea.
