One Hundred Reasons to Abandon Public Education Now

[_Tarski]

Quite possibly the stupidest post yet. Shockingly stupid.

It is nothing more than a list of unbelievably asinine taunts and immature spitting interspersed with the mention of a few people who educated themselves (so what?).

Without public education, schools would be only business/profit based entities that would provide only what sells. As we know from the success of McDonalds and reality TV, the public tends to choose trash. Donald Trump would open up paper mills and use advertising to convince the public that his schools and "universities" were providing real "classy" education (lol).

Without public education, it would be only the exceptional and the few that would be educated while everywhere schools that teach children the things hick parents or ideologue parents want them to hear (creationism, fringe economic theories, fringe Bible based geography, and various forms of denialism) would pop up all over unchecked.
Worst of all we would have multitudes of people who think a good written argument is one that is filled with run on sentences and excessive use of a thesaurus.
Education would become like a spelling bee or a Bible chase.
History would be reduced to jingoism and pseudo-facts like George Washington and his cherry tree.

The real problem is the culture of disrespect for the educated and for real knowledge. It is a culture where everyone has heard of Snooky, JayZ and Rush Limbaugh but almost no one has heard of Terrence Tao, Johan Pettersson, or even Gabriel García Márquez. And are parents likely to choose schools that teach about people and ideas they aren't already familiar with?
Nah, they want the Bible, jingoism and maybe plain old arithmetic and some spelling bees.
Ideas become mere commodities and like the food currently in the grocery store would slowly loose the germ of sustenance.

[_moksha]

101. With less education, the public will not dispute Fox News.

[_Kittens_and_Jesus]

Everyone was literate and competent in math before public education, and they all voted for conservatives!

Except Democrat negroes. Them weren't allowed to vote back den. Like Democrat wimin folk....

There's a reason we men put a clock on the stove...

[_subgenius]

101. With less education, the public will not dispute Fox News.

how exactly does abandoning the public education system equal less education?

[_Kevin Graham]

101. With less education, the public will not dispute Fox News.

how exactly does abandoning the public education system equal less education?

Do you really need this spelled out for you?

If we "drop public education" altogether there simply isn't enough private education elsewhere to meet demand. That logically means more people going without education. Like, tens of millions of people! And the majority of those people attending public schools, cannot afford private education even supply could satisfy demand.

[_ajax18]

In Colombia the government pays until you're in 6th grade. Then it's up to the family. You'd be amazed how many otherwise poor people find the money it takes to educate their kids.

In LA a lot of people opt for private education, and these aren't rich people. It's just that the public schools are so bad that the demand is that high.

[_krose]

Just looked up information on Colombian schools, out of curiosity. It appears their secondary-level enrollment is about 53%. Looks like that's working well for them.

[_ajax18]

Just looked up information on Colombian schools, out of curiosity. It appears their secondary-level enrollment is about 53%. Looks like that's working well for them.

That is interesting Krose. Granted it was 17 years ago, but when I was there part of the motivation to graduate high school was that you were not put at the top of the list for being drafted to the frontlines of the false war on drugs.

[_Droopy]

And we only needed one good reason why never to read anything from Americanthinker.com

Thanks for providing that Droopy.

My favorite was Einstein's remark about "formal education," and the idiots at Americanthinker thought this referred strictly to public education.

Ultimately, we should not be surprised that people like Droopy hate education so much.

And yet again, here comes the least knowledgeable, least read, least educated, and least intellectually competent in any room into yet another thread, the subject matter of which is so far over his head that, from his diving bell far below the surface of the discussion, all he can do is snipe and hiss at that which he does not understand, but despises because, whatever else may be at the core of it, he at least understands that its critical of his Lord, God, and Savior, the state.

[_Kevin Graham]

Are you actually trying to come across as an even bigger idiot than in previous posts? There is no "hissing" or "wailing" or "moaning" or "gnashing of teeth" needed. Just pointing out the simple fact that your precious article is full of idiotic nonsense. The fact that it quotes historical figures in ways that do not support their case, though they obviously think they do, is just icing on the cake here. You never fail to disappoint when we need a moment of comic relief.