Originally Posted by Mr. Charlie

Gold stars is where it starts. That's when the conditioning begins. Because the aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment; it is to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

The education system is very successful in imprinting the following:

1. Truth comes from authority
2. Intelligence is the ability to remember and repeat
3. Accurate memory and repetition are rewarded
4. Non compliance is punished
5. Conform: intellectually and socially

Public education does not encourage critical thinking or imagination. It does not teach emotional intelligence. It does not encourage the pupils to work together to solve problems. It does not seek and help develop an individuals natural skills and abilities. It creates pupils to fit in to its social and economic system.

The truly illiterate of the 21st century are not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.


Nowhere did I suggest that Meg was worthless. Indeed I was careful to not allude to that by saying if she is happy on here chosen path in life then that is fantastic. It was the accolades I called worthless.