Education (Not Just UT)

[SabreHorn]

It's on the front of the Tower facing the Capitol but doesn't seem to have had much effect on those occupying that grand building.

 

[guy4321]

I am surprised there has been no call to remove the inscription.

If you tell them where it's from, that ought to get the riled up to change it.

 

[Mr. Deez]

Why I homeschool. This needs to get a lot of focus from the Adminstration and from Congress if Trump wins. DoDEA is teaching service members' kids some very bad stuff. And if you have time, click on the link in the article to the actual report.

 

[Chop]

A foundation of the problem:

Among many who lobby and vote (especially in the "little" elections), public K-12 education is viewed, in large part, as a jobs program rather than as a pathway to best educate the youth. This is especially true in small towns and rural areas.

 

[Chop]

So should high school government/civics classes come straight out and teach the youth that our government is corrupt, has plenty of officials who are not legitimately holding their offices, and is full of liars and cheats?

Or do we keep up the grand illusion to prevent chaos, destruction, and anarchy?

Thus far, we’ve opted for the second option. But now, We’re on or over the line where people can see that the emperor has no clothes, and that there’s a man behind the blinds operating an illusory Oz.

 

[SabreHorn]

The adults in this country, much less the youth cannot stand to know the hard cold truth, which less than 2% of the population speculates, much less knows. It ain't pretty.

 

[Vol Horn 4 Life]

So should high school government/civics classes come straight out and teach the youth that our government is corrupt, has plenty of officials who are not legitimately holding their offices, and is full of liars and cheats?

Or do we keep up the grand illusion to prevent chaos, destruction, and anarchy?

Thus far, we’ve opted for the second option. But now, We’re on or over the line where people can see that the emperor has no clothes, and that there’s a man behind the blinds operating an illusory Oz.

Unless we shut down the Dept of Education (which I am a fan of doing), they would never allow anything different to be taught or risk losing funding (which shouldn't be a stipulation to begin with).

 

[BrntOrngStmpeDe]

So should high school government/civics classes come straight out and teach the youth that our government is corrupt, has plenty of officials who are not legitimately holding their offices, and is full of liars and cheats?

Or do we keep up the grand illusion to prevent chaos, destruction, and anarchy?

Thus far, we’ve opted for the second option. But now, We’re on or over the line where people can see that the emperor has no clothes, and that there’s a man behind the blinds operating an illusory Oz.

You call it the grand illusion. I prefer to think of it as the aspirational target. I think you can acknowledge that there have been and still are individuals that twist our government to their own ends without dwelling on it as the norm. Much like the conversation about racism, you can acknowledge that it impacted peoples lives and still exist without dwelling on it so much that it by itself becomes the principal argument for failure. Yes, it is selling a slightly enhanced version of us. But particularly in youth, you teach the aspirational. Because if you teach all the faults, then the natural tendency of most youth, particularly teenagers is to use the bottom of the chart as their metric, rather than the top.