Wanna get control? Use the education system.
Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 2:59 pmIf you ever want to look into the education system, and how it creates a servile class, you might find John Taylor Gatto's website worth perusing (linked below).
One section from an article on the site chimes with me, largely because I am increasingly of the opinion that there is an over-arching system of control. Cautionary note: consider the context of the period in which this notion of education was evolving because it might be rendered null and void if the system no longer works as it did back then.
Hitherto, I've always been a bit leery of global elites because of the baggage that accompanies such a world view. My stance has mainly been one of a loosely connected set of overlapping interests whose actions are not concerted but which further the perpetuation of a ruling class. But, the more I delve into this stuff the more I am inclined to believe that the agenda is being set by a very few people. "Very few" is not an absolute term so let's substitute that with "an elite".
There are many counter arguments to the line being sold on Gatto's website but, equally, there seems to be fairly strong evidence for a system of education that is (or was) specifically designed to create a pool of servile workers and a small elite to oversee the corporation. If that is correct then we might just have a little window into what is really going on. Are we really free agents or are peoples' hopes and fears deliberately manufactured to suit the agenda of those who want to lord it over the many?
john taylor gatto
One section from an article on the site chimes with me, largely because I am increasingly of the opinion that there is an over-arching system of control. Cautionary note: consider the context of the period in which this notion of education was evolving because it might be rendered null and void if the system no longer works as it did back then.
Inglis breaks down the purpose - the actual purpose - of modem schooling into six basic functions, any one of which is enough to curl the hair of those innocent enough to believe the three traditional goals listed earlier:
1) The adjustive or adaptive function. Schools are to establish fixed habits of reaction to authority. This, of course, precludes critical judgment completely. It also pretty much destroys the idea that useful or interesting material should be taught, because you can't test for reflexive obedience until you know whether you can make kids learn, and do, foolish and boring things.
2) The integrating function. This might well be called "the conformity function," because its intention is to make children as alike as possible. People who conform are predictable, and this is of great use to those who wish to harness and manipulate a large labor force.
3) The diagnostic and directive function. School is meant to determine each student's proper social role. This is done by logging evidence mathematically and anecdotally on cumulative records. As in "your permanent record." Yes, you do have one.
4) The differentiating function. Once their social role has been "diagnosed," children are to be sorted by role and trained only so far as their destination in the social machine merits - and not one step further. So much for making kids their personal best.
5) The selective function. This refers not to human choice at all but to Darwin's theory of natural selection as applied to what he called "the favored races." In short, the idea is to help things along by consciously attempting to improve the breeding stock. Schools are meant to tag the unfit - with poor grades, remedial placement, and other punishments - clearly enough that their peers will accept them as inferior and effectively bar them from the reproductive sweepstakes. That's what all those little humiliations from first grade onward were intended to do: wash the dirt down the drain.
6) The propaedeutic function. The societal system implied by these rules will require an elite group of caretakers. To that end, a small fraction of the kids will quietly be taught how to manage this continuing project, how to watch over and control a population deliberately dumbed down and declawed in order that government might proceed unchallenged and corporations might never want for obedient labor.
Hitherto, I've always been a bit leery of global elites because of the baggage that accompanies such a world view. My stance has mainly been one of a loosely connected set of overlapping interests whose actions are not concerted but which further the perpetuation of a ruling class. But, the more I delve into this stuff the more I am inclined to believe that the agenda is being set by a very few people. "Very few" is not an absolute term so let's substitute that with "an elite".
There are many counter arguments to the line being sold on Gatto's website but, equally, there seems to be fairly strong evidence for a system of education that is (or was) specifically designed to create a pool of servile workers and a small elite to oversee the corporation. If that is correct then we might just have a little window into what is really going on. Are we really free agents or are peoples' hopes and fears deliberately manufactured to suit the agenda of those who want to lord it over the many?
john taylor gatto
