Education, Ignorance

This is why I love history. As time goes on I am more and more convinced of two facts. First, our world is entirely formed and constructed in narratives – overlapping, contradictory, and non-linear to be sure, but narratives nonetheless. Second the power inherent in such a narrative is seized upon by revisionists and the origin is hid from view. For sometime now I hated Dewey for the education system he brought in; moving away from the formation of a culturally literate individual. It is a result of the present education system that I am not as literate as I ought to be (I’m working on it, Masters in a humanities field, thank you very much). I could cite some evidence as early as St. Augustine (thank you Bruce Bubacz) pointing to what is now know as revisionist history.

Noam doing some history shows that all our contemporary concepts of democracy, liberalism, even a free market and education are hopelessly untethered from their origins. When you wonder why the next generation doesn’t know anything about anything, remember it is because the purpose of mass education is to create obedient people that can follow simple rules.