Paul Goodman wrote--
Quote:When, at a meeting, I offer that perhaps we already have too much formal schooling and that, under present conditions, the more we get the less education we will get, the others look at me oddly and proceed to discuss how to get more money for schools and how to upgrade the schools. I realize suddenly that I am confronting a mass superstition.
They put him on Ignore he means. Standard practice for the insecure. They are all for the truth, critical thinking, logical analysis, empirical objectivity and scientific dialectic but they "don't wish to hear that".
The superstition is, of course, that education can only be achieved in institutionalised schools and that teaching results in learning. Both completely barmy propositions and easily shown to be so. Learning being, of course, what you don't forget. What you can't forget.
The lie is that the others, of the type we have on here, saying that the money and the upgrading is for the schools when in actual fact it is for themselves. They have not the slightest interest in the schools or in education.
I'm looked at oddly permanently. Those who do so know full well that they daren't concede me one inch because their superstitious edifice, on which their self esteem, and possibly their prospects, are built, would collapse in a heap of dust. They are fully sold out to the Promethean fallacy and we will all end up like Prometheus if we take any notice of their self-flattering and self-aggrandising schemes.
For all education is involved in their schemes they might as well set courses and examinations on rote learning sections of the telephone directory and if their cosy conspiracy, which they have sold with assertions (executive truths similar to Saddam having WMD deliverable in 40 minutes) is properly functioning their certificates will be exchangeable for money and status and they will have a bunch of fawning students grovelling at their feet simply for deciding which grade learns the A-D sections or the T-Z ones and handing out the funny money. And not a student being able to remember anything of the telephone directory a week after the exam. As long as they have the permit to charge higher rates for their precious time than nurses, soldiers and garbage collectors is all anybody cares about. Education isn't in the frame.
It is an iron law of bureaucracies that members of it are ambitious of avoiding as much contact as possible with the clients. Just as a senior general doesn't shoot at the enemy, a senior social worker doesn't interview the grubby deadbeats, a senior priest doesn't hear hoi polloi confessions, a senior policeman doesn't arrest people, it follows, as night follows day, that senior educators don't educate.
Anti-IDers are either trying to climb the greasy pole by having the kids on Ignore or are having a vicarious fantasy, a virtuous one naturally, along those lines. Talking about education being posher and more fruitful that doing any educating.
It's religious to its very core. It's a mass superstition alright. It's a bloody bare-assed con if you want the truth as you all claim to do.
You're the biggest bunch of phonies I've ever encountered in one place. You're talking through your pockets or you have swallowed the bullshit of somebody who is. The latter is the definition of "dupe".
