The Reason Education Sucks

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retrogradeorbit · 2015-01 · Recommendation

The Reason Education Sucks: [VIDEO] Edit: for those wanting something less cynical and more serious, I recommend some John Taylor Gatto: [LINK] [LINK]

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WhyDoIThink · 2022-08 · Reference

This video titled "The Reason Education Sucks" from George Carlin will explain why rent is skyrocketing: [VIDEO] Here is a quote from that video: "But there's a reason. There's a reason. There's a reason for this, there's a reason education sucks, and it's the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It's never gonna get any better. Don't look for it. Be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now, the real owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don't want: They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well informed, well educated people capable of critical

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mSparks · 2016-08 · Reference

Its not a mystery at all. China has tons of free world class education based purely on academic ability and a couple of billion people educated to a world class standard. The US has virtually no education system, what does exist is expensive and not practically oriented. Basic supply and demand. US has high demand for skills and totally non competitive supply. (even in tech now, which is why they need the H1B visa thing) But dont expect it to get fixed. It's that way on purpose. [VIDEO]

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