They can, they just don't want to. Kids spend at least 12 years being taught to hate learning and thinking, with any deviation from the official party line resulting in harsh social isolation and intimidation. It's been that way since the time I was in high school. They're taught to be automatons. Is it any wonder that's what they grow into?
There is a good book about how the education system was built up throigh compulsary schooling by the rockafellers and carnigie. It is a tool of governance not education. It teaches people to conform to government authority through shame. Book is titled along the lines of thd intentional dumbing down of america.
John Taylor Gatto is my favorite author on this subject. This is from his Infogalactic page:
What does the school do to children? Gatto asserts the following in "Dumbing Us Down":
It confuses the students.
It presents an incoherent ensemble of information that the child needs to memorize to stay in school. Apart from the tests and trials, this programming is similar to the television; it fills almost all the "free" time of children. One sees and hears something, only to forget it again.
It teaches them to accept their class affiliation.
It makes them indifferent.
It makes them emotionally dependent.
It makes them intellectually dependent.
It teaches them a kind of self-confidence that requires constant confirmation by experts (provisional self-esteem).
It makes it clear to them that they cannot hide, because they are always supervised.
They can, they just don't want to. Kids spend at least 12 years being taught to hate learning and thinking, with any deviation from the official party line resulting in harsh social isolation and intimidation. It's been that way since the time I was in high school. They're taught to be automatons. Is it any wonder that's what they grow into?
There is a good book about how the education system was built up throigh compulsary schooling by the rockafellers and carnigie. It is a tool of governance not education. It teaches people to conform to government authority through shame. Book is titled along the lines of thd intentional dumbing down of america.
Why Johnny can't think is another good one
John Taylor Gatto is my favorite author on this subject. This is from his Infogalactic page:
What does the school do to children? Gatto asserts the following in "Dumbing Us Down":
It confuses the students.
It presents an incoherent ensemble of information that the child needs to memorize to stay in school. Apart from the tests and trials, this programming is similar to the television; it fills almost all the "free" time of children. One sees and hears something, only to forget it again.
It teaches them to accept their class affiliation.
It makes them indifferent.
It makes them emotionally dependent.
It makes them intellectually dependent.
It teaches them a kind of self-confidence that requires constant confirmation by experts (provisional self-esteem).
It makes it clear to them that they cannot hide, because they are always supervised.
https://infogalactic.com/info/John_Taylor_Gatto