We know all the criticisms. China’s children are taught only to memorise and not to think or question. They are rote-learning robots without capacity for
Tag: Education
The Higher Education Scam
In the 1930s about 2% of young people in the United Kingdom went to university. That figure is now approaching 50%. In which era was
Universities are Masonic Brain Washing Machines
I’d only send my son to university if he had no talent. The modern university is not devoted to truth, quite the opposite. Feminist and
The Power to Oversee the Education System, A Historical Timeline from the Prussian Empire to the Rockefeller Dynasty
Throughout history, the idea of those in power to oversee the education system started in the 16th Century. The history is complex and is rarely
A College “Education” has Little to Do With Education
An old friend of mine, who taught political science for 25 years at the University of Colorado, was known to tell his students that the real
Education and the Dismantling of the Mind
Are there any States in the Union that allow public schools to opt out of providing sex education to children? Of course, a counter-argument would
The Language of Neoliberal Education
This interview with Henry Giroux was conducted by Mitja Sardoč, of the Educational Research Institute, in the Faculty of the Social Sciences, at University of Ljubljana,
The State Weaponizes Education to Create Ignorance
A hundred fifty years ago, at least some Americans recognized that all serious discourse depended on the use of the faculty called Reason. Formal debate,
