Thursday, June 24, 2010

The future - is engineered?

Consider the strange possibility that we have been deliberately taught to be irresponsible and to dislike each other for some good purpose.

http://4brevard.com/choice/Public_Education.htm
the industrial titans of the 1890's began to think that not only could the production line be engineered, but people's lives could be engineered as well, in order to work like homogeneous robots with the machines. Rockefeller and Carnegie gave huge sums to prominent academics to see if this could be realized through the educational system. They found that to a considerable extent it could, and it is still being done today as evidenced in the Congressional Record during the Clinton administration.

http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/marc_tucker/marc_tucker_letter.html
On Sept. 25, 1998, Rep. Bob Schaffer placed in the Congressional Record an 18-page letter that has become famous as Marc Tucker's "Dear Hillary" letter. It lays out the master plan of the Clinton Administration to take over the entire U.S. educational system so that it can serve national economic planning of the workforce.

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I found this out while researching this:
Versions of “Did You Know?” (4.0) video produced for the Economist’s Third Annual Media Convergence Forum in New York City on October 20–21, 2009.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqw-n0uAOpA The world is changing fast: UK perspective
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUMf7FWGdCw&NR=1 Exponential growth
The Economist video makes it look as if we can blame bad US economy on the population numbers. Unfortunately, it’s about quality too.
THE US AS THE CONSUMER SOCIETY: KIDS NOT USED TO STUDYING http://4brevard.com/choice/international-test-scores.htm
Results By grade 4, American students only score in the middle of 26 countries reported. By grade 8 they are in the bottom third, and at the finish line, where it really counts, we're near dead last. Its even worse when you notice that some of the superior countries in grade 8 (especially the Asians) were not included in published 12th grade results. They do not need 12 grades. People have a tendency to think this picture is bleak but it doesn't apply to their own school. Chances are, even if your school compares well in SAT scores, it will still be a lightweight on an international scale.
1. By the time our students are ready to leave high school - ready to enter higher education and the labor force - they are doing so badly with science they are significantly weaker than their peers in other countries.
2. Our idea of "advanced" is clearly below international standards.
3. There appears to be a consistent weakness in our teaching performance in physical sciences that becomes magnified over the years.
excerpted from a speech by Pascal D. Forgione, Jr., Ph.D. U.S. Commissioner of Education Statistics.