Denmark Vesey: Compulsory Schooling Has Delivered More People Into Bondage Than Did The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade • DV University • Spring 2011

Sunday, February 06, 2011

Compulsory Schooling Has Delivered More People Into Bondage Than Did The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade • DV University • Spring 2011

"The aim of public education is not to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence. ... Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim ... is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States... and that is its aim everywhere else." H.L. Mencken The American Mercury for April 1924

5 comments:

uglyblackjohn said...: This being true - what can be done about it?
It's the responsibility of the family to educate their children - schools just provide the resources.
School just provides the starting point not the end result of having an education.
Most of what we learn (that we can actually use) is acquired from living life and applying the theories from school.
Having a high school diploma or degree from college just means that one did the MINIMUM required - not that they excelled.; Feb 7, 2011, 3:00:00 PM
Denmark Vesey said...: What up UB?

"what can be done about it?"

A couple of things.

1) STOP EQUATING "SCHOOL" WITH EDUCATION.

That's like equating a restaurant with food.

Can you get good food at Restaurants?

Sometimes.

Are restaurants the only places to get food?

Hell no.

Would you eat food from a "compulsory restaurant"?

Imagine a restaurant that did not have to compete for your business, because you were required to eat there by law.

Would you expect to find quality, nutritious food at such a place?

Why would one expect "compulsory schools" to distribute healthy, nutritious, empowering educations?

2) APPRECIATE THE FACT THE SCHOOLS WERE DESIGNED TO DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD.

It is a misconception that "urban public schools" have failed.

"Urban public schools" have been wildly successful.

They have done exactly what they were supposed to do.

They have crippled and contained the urban public.; Feb 7, 2011, 3:20:00 PM
DMG said...: However, the places you have suggested to acquire knowledge are analogous to dumpster diving behind a joint that sells chitlins. Not only are you consuming trash, but you are consuming trash made from a foundation of shit.; Feb 7, 2011, 3:33:00 PM
Denmark Vesey said...: " However, the places you have suggested to acquire knowledge are analogous to dumpster diving behind a joint that sells chitlins. Not only are you consuming trash, but you are consuming trash made from a foundation of shit.." DMG

Actually no Festas.

I'm consuming natural nutritionally dense food often grown by farmers we know.

You are consuming Subways.

Which is shit.

If you were better educated and less schooled you would recognize the difference.

Think about it.

It's also the reason that ALL of your patients are sick and will NEVER get better.

Your medicine is shit.

It is designed to make your employers, the pharmaceutical companies, rich by keeping them sick.

But .... 22 years of OBEDIENCE SCHOOL has made it impossible for you to accept that ... observable truth.; Feb 7, 2011, 4:13:00 PM
DMG said...: Analogy. Look it up.; Feb 7, 2011, 4:52:00 PM

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