{"id":34351,"date":"2017-10-17T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T05:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34351"},"modified":"2017-10-06T09:06:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T13:06:55","slug":"qotd-the-problem-with-modern-education-an-alien-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/10\/17\/qotd-the-problem-with-modern-education-an-alien-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The problem with modern education &#8211; an alien conspiracy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>So, what is going on?<\/p>\n<p>Lots of things. Look, I\u2019m a science fiction writer. It\u2019s easy for me to say \u201cThere is a conspiracy by aliens, to make sure we never get to the stars. They infiltrated our education establishment and are destroying competence from within.<\/p>\n<p>Except it\u2019s not just education, and I don\u2019t believe in aliens or that ALL of this is done on purpose.<\/p>\n<p>But Sarah, you\u2019ll say, some of it is, like Bill Ayers redesigning education as a means to bring about a biddable proletariat.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, sure, that might have been how the dumbass conceived it. It\u2019s not why it\u2019s applied though. And dumbass? Yep. Bill Ayers, like most progressives is a clever fool who thinks society spins on words and theories, and not on basic \u201ccan do\u201d. This is one of the reasons communist societies QUICKLY become hell on Earth. Because you can\u2019t get rid of everyone who is competent without the rest of society collapsing. The ceiling doesn\u2019t stay up when you remove the walls. People who\u2019ve been educated beyond their competence don\u2019t see that though.<\/p>\n<p>Still, most people who APPLY his poisonous ideas aren\u2019t frankly competent enough to know what they\u2019re doing. No. They\u2019re doing it for other reasons.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Stupidity <\/em>\u2013 the most powerful force on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>There are any number of people who\u2019ll do whatever without thinking because someone in authority tells them not only that they should, but that \u201cit\u2019s the new way of doing things. All the smart people follow it.\u201d And frankly they\u2019re not competent enough to evaluate the \u201cnew way of doing things\u201d so they settle for APPEARING smart.<\/p>\n<p><em>Rapid change<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Even in the village, the teacher often floundered. They\u2019d added pre-history to the curriculum, and she\u2019d never studied it. So\u2026 her idea of pre-history was the Flintstones. I came home talking about cars made of stone (I wish I\u2019d had a camera to take  picture of dad\u2019s face.) Mom and dad corrected it. NO BIG.<\/p>\n<p>If my kids are maleducated in the same way say, about computers, I can\u2019t fix it. What\u2019s more, I\u2019m not alone. H*ll I found out the model of the atom I learned was superseded and that the physics I learned was not at all like what the kids learned (they thought I was nuts.) AND when Robert came home and told me \u201cWe\u2019re sequencing DNA in lab. When you sequenced DNA\u2013\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No, it\u2019s not a complete excuse, no matter what they tell you, but it is PART of it. Not in teachers not being able to keep up, but in parents or even grandparents no longer being able to fill in those deficiencies.<\/p>\n<p>The same applies to just about any type of work, btw, because the methods are so different now that the old codger who walked to the shop and corrected the new hires? He no longer can teach them anything.<\/p>\n<p>A belief in \u201cnatural\u201d things and \u201cnatural\u201d learning and that if it\u2019s not fun, it\u2019s not right. This apparently is the flowering of the student revolts in the sixties. It is certainly what is destroying marriage as an institution.<\/p>\n<p>You see, every marriage goes through rough patches. I probably have one of the happiest marriages in the world, but yeah, there were days, evenings, and sometimes entire months when I\u2019d have traded the whole thing for ten cents and a pack of chewing gum. It\u2019s just I knew it had been good and would be again.<\/p>\n<p>The same applies to learning. I don\u2019t care how \u201cgifted\u201d you are at math or languages or even writing, you are not gifted enough to intuit the whole thing at our present level. NO MATTER HOW GIFTED YOU ARE, YOU\u2019RE NOT GOING TO RECONSTITUTE AN ENTIRE SCIENCE OR ART WITHOUT LEARNING. And learning means some tedium, some memorizing and the inevitable patch that is difficult, even though everything else came easily.<\/p>\n<p>When the entire establishment goes over for \u201cshould be fun\u201d you\u2019re going to fail.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fear<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>People who are mal-educated and conscious of it don\u2019t hire people who know more than they do. Okay, so some do, but not many and those people are exceptional. This is why the whole \u201cThe president can be a dumbass if he hires good advisors\u201d always fails, as we have proof daily. People don\u2019t want their subordinates to upstage them. Any of you who EVER corrected a boss knows exactly what I\u2019m talking about.<\/p>\n<p>So, let\u2019s imagine that this started with the student revolts (it started a little earlier, with the busy parents who came back from WWII not passing things on.)<\/p>\n<p>Those people hit the market place and hired people my generation who were LESS prepared than they were. They were AFRAID of being exposed. Then my generation hired people less prepared and then\u2026<\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sarah Hoyt, <a href=\"http:\/\/accordingtohoyt.com\/2016\/03\/04\/the-war-on-competence\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The War On Competence&#8221;, <em>According to Hoyt<\/em><\/a>, 2016-03-04.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, what is going on? Lots of things. Look, I\u2019m a science fiction writer. It\u2019s easy for me to say \u201cThere is a conspiracy by aliens, to make sure we never get to the stars. They infiltrated our education establishment and are destroying competence from within. 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