Race to the Top

And so another administration makes up another program that is miraculously goint to improve our schools.

Here is what education analyst Neal McCluskey says about the real impact of this $4 billion paperwork circus: "States must say how they would improve lots of things, but they actually have to do very little. It is decades of public schooling -- from the Great Society to No Child Left Behind -- in a nutshell."

Our education regime is loaded with fraud. They have no idea how to teach, or rather, they have the wrong idea. Their image of what a "finished" student should look like comes out of their own wild imaginations and the imaginations of "social progressives" of the past five generations. An educated eighteen year old will be "actualized" and "socialized" but not have a broad foundation upon which to base his interpretations of things he encounters which no teacher anticipated for him and for which he is completely unprepared. He knows nothing so he believes anything he is told, so long as it is cloaked in emotional language that makes him feel good. "You care, you're opposed to racism or cigarettes or sexual hangups or that old fashioned crap your grandparents used to get force fed in school, you know how to think, you know more than regurgitating what you're told in school, you're so smart you question authority, people used to believe this old garbage but now we're enlightened and we know better; you don't need someone to tell you how to think, you're smarter than that..."

All these stupid slogans mean absolutely nothing, but are eagerly lapped up by people with no education. They make you feel good, they make you feel superior to the Thomas Aquinases and the Saint Augustines and even the Galileos of our world, simply by labeling ourselves "smarter than them."

And that's all this generation has to go on--silliness. And by "silly" I'm using the word as it used to be used, referring to sheep who have not a single thought in their heads. They will vote for silly policies and silly politicians who impose destructive policies through silly, meaningless slogans like "Yes we can."

But that's what our educrats intend, because silliness and silly beliefs and silly followers and silly ego-stroking are what keep in power the party that has the most entrenched opportunists in the education profession.

Something has got to change, and I'm hoping to be one of the voices responsible for "CHANGE!!! YES WE CAN!!!"