/lit/ - Literature

>>17869200
>There's really not some systematic agenda to brainwash students into societally productive drones
Banking interests bought out the relevant institutions and textbook publishers with that aim turn of the 20th century; Common Core is Satanic, and good faith or bad, you are nescient

>>15292918
>They follow trends, prestige, and money, and so rarely act outside the box.
Thumb twiddling, while anything pushing the envelope is copywritten, mothballed and memory holed into private hands and research.
Does anyone really believe the state of space travel hasn't moved beyond upscaled German Rockets from WWII?

>>15184420
>bought and paid for a century ago, along with medicine through the credentialing process
>the same pattern made England industrially uncompetitive with copy right law, whilst Germany actively printed everything and anything willy nilly to the point of surpassing the original Industrial Revolutionist European power
The GI Bill is the absolute latest sign post for this, with the desired upper/middle class knock on effects achieved somewhere in the late 80s-early 90s. Sokal Hoax expressed the nascent but terminal understanding of boiling frogs -- Peterson psyop of it being down to PoMo (as an co-author of dystopian non-fiction such as UN Agenda 21/30 documents) ought to have been a signal as to its artificiality. A Zizek or Badiou's "intellectual Stalinism/Maoism" is desirable on the other half of this rebis insofar as the surfeit of basketweaving subdisciplines within the humanities survives on the largesse ultimately paid for by the underclass as unapportioned taxes (in America anyways, via Federal subsidy).

>>15184906
>because the culture/zeitgeist is collapsing
Contracting from the consumer paradise into bare essentials -- which peregrinates around literal "physica removal" memes. Russia had its population shuffles in the millions, it's now reordering in the New World North as we speak with Wu Flu.

>>15187274
The priest class has laid its own bed, and it Will lie in it.

>>14913281
>Remove the Department of Education in the US for which there is no Constitutional remit and pass legislation to the effect that the Federal Government is to fuck off of it forever, in addition to removing all foreign funding from Universities (no lack of millionaires in need of tax breaks); foreign students in strategic disciplines must renounce their citizenship permanently prior to admission and must serve in the military two years following graduation
Abolish it pre-8-12 (non-mandatory), with the remaining primary schooling made strictly local funding sourced (with much smaller gynmasiums on the German/French model that are free to the top 10%).
The shell of K-7 becomes what it is -- day care, but with practical education emphasis towards trades (applied mathmatics, grammar, the raw mechanics of civic life & law) in anticipation of beginning as a journeyman at what would be Grade 8.

Even into the Depression era, itinerant tutors (often preachers) would go to small towns in the off season for the whatever crops were in rotation, and a collection would go up -- the tutor would receive food, room, and board in exchange for educating the youth. This was the American system from time immemorial, and it's not for nothing an Abraham Lincoln type becomes more literate than Jiao Blow ape in current year concentration camps for the mind (and compliant employees, rather than proprietors under free enterprise). Education and Entertainment were omitted from Eisenhower's original farewell speech. More than XYZ alphabets must be smashed to a thousand pieces.