Overt & Covert Education

The agenda of public education has become blindingly obvious. The uniformity of ideology and belief among rising primary, secondary and college students cannot be assigned to s*** happens. Somewhere along the line it was decided that empowering students to employ logic, evidence, critical thinking, precedent and common sense was not politically expedient or part of the social contract between the people and their government. Compliance and conformity with political ideologies that came to dominate the 1930s-1940s is systemic throughout the public education. Its end product is now on display at college and high school campuses throughout America. “Teaching” the young however is not restricted to overt state agencies but there is a covert instruction that also shapes the ideologies/worldview of upcoming generations. Who are these people? They are the writers, producers and financiers of the content in mainstream T.V., Movies, Music, News, Internet, etc. The images, actions, dialogue, behavior, etc. enhanced by modern technology shape the worldview of the young. The upcoming generations sit in this classroom for 2,693 hour per year compared to state sanctioned classrooms at 1,195 hours per year. That’s 3,888 hours of total instruction. Considering annual waking hours are 5,840 that’s a lot of education (i.e. the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction.)

Whatever one thinks of modern morals, ethics, behaviors they are an inversion of former conduct, values, etc. The education of the past- logic, evidence, critical thinking, precedent and common sense were also helpful in developing useful skills and integrating those skills in the workforce. So on one hand we have the emerging educated populace free from expectation and constraints regarding values and behavior and on the other entitlement on steroids but possessing little skill and erudition. Quite a dichotomy as well as a phenomenon of modernity. My guess is that there won’t be a happy ending