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Wow!!! This is impressive Musician Frank Zappa on how the school system is used as a programming tool. https://t.co/xYAB8D1ckY
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Schools are criticized for training people to be ignorant and lacking in critical thinking skills. They are seen as tools for the military industrial complex, producing obedient workers. However, parents can counteract this by providing alternative education at home. Encouraging creativity, reading diverse materials, and watching educational television can help children develop their thinking abilities. Parents should support their children's intellectual growth and not just focus on their success or being well-behaved.
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Speaker 0: Schools train people to be ignorant with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American schools do not equip you to deal with things like logic. They don't give you the criteria by which to judge between good and bad at in any medium or format. And they prepare you to be a usable victim for a military industrial complex that needs manpower.
As long as you're just smart enough to do a job and just dumb enough to swallow what they feed you, you're gonna be alright. But if you go beyond that you're gonna have these grave doubts that give you stomach problems, headaches, make you wanna go do something else. So I believe that schools mechanically and very specifically try and breathe out any hint of creative thought and the kids that are coming out. So what's the alternative for the parent who would agree with you? Well, remember that the school isn't the only place that a child gets educated.
If you realize that the schools are doing damage and I believe this. I believe that schools do a lot of damage to kids. Then you should do what you can at home to help give them something to counteract what's happening to them at school. You mean encourage creativity? Encourage them to read things other than what the school gives them.
Encourage them to watch things on television other than cartoons because I don't believe the television is all bad and some things that are on are very useful. And give them some support. Let them feel that you as a parent, want them to be smart not just to be successful, not just to be a nice little person that you want them to develop their thinking apparatus.