On Education
My sister recently sent me a link to an article on math education in the United States and its politicization and asked my opinion. I sent her the following email in response.
There is definitely politics involved in the system. What should be taught, how it should be taught, how to deal with the problem of massive under-performance by certain individuals or groups of the population? Not just in math but the social sciences as well… Schools teaching value systems that the parents don’t agree with; political correctness forced on the populace. Who is deciding what is politically correct? It definitely wasn’t me. Don’t think it was you either. School is a massive system of social control. It operates on the younger individuals of society while the police, FBI, CIA, NSA, IRS and financial credit tracking system operates on the older individuals of society. Throw in International Banker Mafia Cartel control of virtually all western governments, major corporations and major media outlets and you have a freakish system already operating every bit as pervasive as illustrated in “1984”.
School is also compulsory. Parents are compelled by law to school their children, most of whom get schooled through public or private schools. Only a small percentage of the populace home-schools their children, and even that is constantly under attack. And if you decide not to school your child, say you decide to keep them home and teach them how to run the farm or the diner or the hardware store or whatever other family business you own, the government will not allow it. You will be visited by a representative from child protective services who will claim to have the authority to enter and inspect your home. If you tell them to f-off they will return with the police. Tell them to f-off again and they will assault your house, arrest or kill you, forcibly take your child and place them in a foster care home where they will again be attending school…
Tim
P.S. I know this wasn’t quite the answer you were expecting, but I had fun writing it just the same.
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From: Sister
Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2015 3:53 PM
To: Tim Charles
Subject: NYTimes: The Politics of Math Education
What do you think of this analysis?
It’s always about who gets to decide what rational thinking is.