Even those who aren’t surprised by the simple fact of Donald Trump’s assault on America’s universities must be shocked by the full frontal magnitude of it all, belated attempts to walk back parts of it, notwithstanding. (Harvard is putting up a courageous, clever, and effective defense.)
Trying? They succeeded, that’s why we’re here now. You wanna know what the state of education is now? An entire generation that went to high school through No Child Left Behind is now teaching kids. Many of them do not have a Masters in education, because hiring standards have needed to be lowered in many districts just to get any teachers at all. Hell for some schools, I’ve heard of recent exceptional high school graduates getting asked to come back and teach the classes they just finished.
Education in America died decades ago. The Trump administration is just burying the body.
“I love the poorly educated”- Trump, 2016
The last election results have shown that we’re already very stupid and don’t need the assistance.
It’s all about damn control.
They need everyone to be sick, stupid, and scared.
A healthy and broadly educated population which feels safe and secure is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
This is nothing new for the GOP. The Texas GOP accidentally said the quiet part out loud in 2012.
From the Texas 2012 GOP Platform
We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.
This is why educational outcomes in red states are so bad, particularly in the south where the GOP often controls legislative and executive branches. People are scared of things they don’t understand so undermining education makes people easier to scare. Why do they want to scare people, you might ask? Because scared people tend to vote conservative.
Over the past few years, a number of experiments have begun to shed light on the relationship between emotion and political inclinations. “There’s empirical research that suggests that when people are primed with images of mortality—graveyards, hospitals, the elderly—this can move them to the right,” said John Hibbing, who directs the political physiology lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Some studies suggest that people who are already conservative may be extra-sensitive to these images.
Does this mean I won’t have to get higher education to get that high paying job that requires a degree? Oh man this is awesome. /s
They pretend education is dogmatic indoctrination when it’s really learning scientific and philosophical methods and methodologies to think critically and evaluate arguments and evidence for yourself, and pretend their childhood religious dogma indoctrination with an unquestionable clergy authority isn’t damaging their ability to evaluate truth by lowering the bar of evidence to faith and personal experience when they deny those same garbage methods for every other religion but their own.
Trump and the Republican party does love the poorly educated.
Dad said colleges ruined his relationship with his kids… no dumbass your kids dont like you because you are a child and college gave them chance to be independent
It’s true but the universities are entirely complicit. They’re vehicles of indoctrination and privilege, not education not diversity. They’re completely entwined with corporations, MIC, politicians, etc. They literally “educated” Trump. It’s a training service for capital/fascism, not for labor. And it will continue to be so.
Thinking a university is just a training center for anything labor or exploiters, misses the.point. it’s supposed to teach us how to fit into the universe. How to be a human being and so more than just work for overlords
What’s your suggestion? We can’t exactly peer into the future and see who will use their education for good or evil. The point of an educated populace is to be able to spot and stop movements like Trump’s before we get into this position in the first place.
Yeah no shit. Educated people don’t usually vote for Trump.
I’ve been fighting for the liberation of knowledge from these people for twenty years.
Letting anti intellectual creeps have a say in knowledge, education, research is like the Catholic church being led by atheists.
People might know this if their education didn’t trick them to think otherwise.
But if a world can’t rally around the one positive segment of society and let it be ruined by the worst, what can we expect?
They want public education to be North Korea style and private education to be only for the wealthy.
Feel bad for my friends who have kids not yet at the age of reason.
It’s been the goal of the oligarchs and their pet politicians to dismantle any attempt to educate and maintain the system of indoctrination that exists. The system was designed to produce obedient factory workers who do what they are told. Once the Robber Barons were gone the new generation of oligarchs did not see a reason to replace the system. As it obviously benefited them to keep a mindless populace around. Colleges and universities have had to deprogram students to be able to think for themselves. Now that so many people are getting college and university degrees, the oligarchs want to dismantle the system so that it goes back to only being a privileged few are able to see what is actually happening.
It has always been the oligarchs fault for how shit our education system has been. We have always been an oligarchic third world country that has been draped in a disguise of being better than it was.
