While I'm a conservative by nature, I am now fully behind the idea of radical change. This is most apparent to me in the fields of education, medicine, and forcing the genie of government back into it's original bottle. Education is first on my list because it's from our flawed perception that academic degrees equal intelligence that h…
While I'm a conservative by nature, I am now fully behind the idea of radical change. This is most apparent to me in the fields of education, medicine, and forcing the genie of government back into it's original bottle. Education is first on my list because it's from our flawed perception that academic degrees equal intelligence that has allowed the worst thinkers to be elevated to a position of authority. The amount of damage this has caused is incalculable. The first victim is common sense based on common principles. Once this is broached things go downhill quickly.
Education for the majority of people is needed to gain employment and become productive members of society. It should enable us to feed ourselves and nurture healthy families which would then allow us to build strong communities and ultimately a robust economy and society. Today, education has become a breeding ground for destructive thinking, dehumanizing behavior devoid of rational thought much less gaining any skillset that benefit the individual let alone anyone else.
Critical thinking and analysis is out the window. How to think has been replaced with what to think. Education has become indoctrination by the worst thinkers who in many cases would be unable to hold any job outside the walls of academia.
Unless and until we re-imagine the mission and methods of education we will never be able to solve the other vexing problems we face. Personally I would invest in more community colleges focused on good paying jobs and eliminate funding for most liberal colleges. We need to get back on track before more of our youth are poisoned physically, mentally and spiritually with worthless degrees in gender studies, multi-culturalism, black studies, etc.
While I'm a conservative by nature, I am now fully behind the idea of radical change. This is most apparent to me in the fields of education, medicine, and forcing the genie of government back into it's original bottle. Education is first on my list because it's from our flawed perception that academic degrees equal intelligence that has allowed the worst thinkers to be elevated to a position of authority. The amount of damage this has caused is incalculable. The first victim is common sense based on common principles. Once this is broached things go downhill quickly.
Education for the majority of people is needed to gain employment and become productive members of society. It should enable us to feed ourselves and nurture healthy families which would then allow us to build strong communities and ultimately a robust economy and society. Today, education has become a breeding ground for destructive thinking, dehumanizing behavior devoid of rational thought much less gaining any skillset that benefit the individual let alone anyone else.
Critical thinking and analysis is out the window. How to think has been replaced with what to think. Education has become indoctrination by the worst thinkers who in many cases would be unable to hold any job outside the walls of academia.
Unless and until we re-imagine the mission and methods of education we will never be able to solve the other vexing problems we face. Personally I would invest in more community colleges focused on good paying jobs and eliminate funding for most liberal colleges. We need to get back on track before more of our youth are poisoned physically, mentally and spiritually with worthless degrees in gender studies, multi-culturalism, black studies, etc.