I was speaking to someone home schooling their son about "Dumbing us Down" today which is a 1970s? book about the problem with public Schools. I recommended she read this book because she was home schooling her son who is around 10 I think. Then my wife said: "This is pretty outdated now". And I said "Not to me because I'm out of the 1970s." I was 21 in 1969 for example so the 1970s were my 20s mostly.
Then I thought about it more and said to this lady homeschooling her child. "The most important thing you likely need to know about this book is that if you send your children to public school it is unlikely that they will EVER be: "The Captain of their own Ship and Master of their own destiny."
There are two ways to think (likely more but to make it simple I'm just breaking it into two here.
There are two ways in this example.
1. Master
2. Slave
And the problem with public school is it tends to make people think more like Slaves than Masters.
I suppose if you analyze public schools that they were more started a lot by big companies who wanted people to work in their factories that they also wanted to know how to read and write. So, by making people read and write and conditioning them for Slavery in a factory somewhere is what all this was about.
So, if you ever want to have anything at all in your life a public school isn't where you want to start.
For example, in my own life I was put in a public school from Kindergarten through 11th Grade in other words 1953 to 1965. Then I was sent to a church private school by my parents. But only in my senior year as a student in a private school did I ever seriously consider going to college. Why?
Because I was too busy trying to survive the juvenile delinquents in the schools I grew up in and trying to avoid having to fight all the time or get knifed from about 8 years old through my junior year in High School.
However, what I noticed in Fall of 1966 when I entered college was that most of the juvenile delinquents who cause trouble from Grade school through high school were NOT to be found in college when I went there. So, I found I liked college because it was much safer than any public school I attended in my life up until then.
So, if you really want to understand what public schools do to people read "Dumbing us Down".
Also, according to online sources it says that Dumbing us Down was published in 1991. However, I think it's just this paperback edition that was published then because I remember reading about this during the 1980s.
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