The homogenizing of America’s children begins at an early
age in the public school system where everyone is told to color
inside the lines, get in line, shut up, and accept everything the
teacher says “just because.”
Though it is important to set the ground rules for society and
preach the advantages of discipline, anyone who dares to display an
iota of individuality is disciplined. As a result, society
wrongfully expects everyone to graduate from high school and go to
college.
The public school system started out of good intentions. It was
a positive move by the government, securing a knowledgeable voter
population, and creating many employable Americans who had attained
life skills and the intellect needed for survival in
post-industrial age America.
But this system has become a bureaucratic monster. Unlike the
other three branches of government bureaucracies, the fourth branch
isn’t in the limelight and its power often goes unchecked.
These bureaucracies are a predatory beast; one that eats and
breathes and grows until its nasty tentacles are wrapped around
every facet of a free individual’s life.
As more and more administrators, unions, lawyers, and laws took
over, common sense was abandoned in favor of a socialist school
system. American children were forced to conform to a low standard,
more money was put into union and bureaucrat pockets, and the
choice of educating oneself was destroyed. It is no wonder so many
college professors and school teachers consider themselves
leftists, for only the modern liberal movement would condone such a
fascist system that robs people of the right to educate their
children in the way they see fit, not by some arbitrarily chosen
national standard.
Young children are coerced to believe that every good person
must be educated. Those who don’t get their degrees are
stigmatized no matter how intelligent and resourceful they are. A
GED will always be lower on the social scale than a high school
diploma.
As a result of this assembly line education, people are funneled
into colleges and universities, attempting to reach the awesome
standard of the college degree. The standard has become so expected
that society is bending over backwards to ensure that everyone has
“access.” Affirmative action, grade inflation, lower
standards, and huge subsidies funded by taxpayers have all been
used to guarantee that everyone in society becomes an unquestioning
student regardless of skills or worthiness.
Ironically, the result is not a society where individuals are
treated equally, but the creation of a caste system based upon
education instead of wealth. The janitors, longshoremen,
carpenters, and construction workers are looked upon as lowly
people who weren’t smart enough to join the decorated elite
in their posh caps and gowns.
At least half of the students tricked into thinking that
education is a necessity could have entered trade schools,
apprenticeships, started their own businesses, or attained upwardly
mobile entry level positions. These people, as well as society,
would have benefited due to the creation of wealth and jobs. But
because of a forced education and public standard, taxpayer money
and valuable time are wasted learning things that often have no
practical application outside of an academic setting.
Such an educational system creates a lingering impact on
America’s future. Assembly line education has created too
many professionals. America has become an economy of services
instead of goods. We depend too much on foreign business for raw
materials, and hardly develop any new technology. New capital is
redistributed instead of created. Eventually our economy will
become stagnant.
We can’t solely blame bureaucracy. The beast likes to
reproduce. But since many graduates have public jobs that increase
the beast’s size, one must wonder, where will America be when
there is nothing left to feed it?