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It is worse than you think - unfortunately.This is obviously not a random sample. I don’t think it is really this bad.
Thank You for the resource !!!A woman who had been a lawyer researched and documented a lot of this kind of thing (and wrote a book "Credentialed to Destroy: How and Why Education Became a Weapon"). This information is staggering.
Check out the "Invisible Serf's Collar" website. She started her blog around ten years ago (when she still had a child in the school system). The more she discovered had been going on (since the 1920s at least if not longer) the more she researched the linkages and discovered that this entire effort, to change the educational system in the US, continues today.
Invisible Serfs Collar
"a group which desires to be strong has no use for the man who claims to think for himself."www.invisibleserfscollar.com
From her "About Me"
My name is Robin Eubanks and I am an attorney. Not the sort who represents or defends people in a courtroom. I figure things out. Usually about what drives a business or industry, how it makes its money, and what the risks are to its revenue model.
I started off in Big Law doing corporate work and then helped start a legal department for a small healthcare company that grew to be a New York stock-exchange traded company.
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A background in Law is also excellent preparation for determining precisely what the terms commonly used actually mean. Especially in an industry that is consciously using language to hide the actual intended goals. My experience allowed me to recognize that education in the US and globally has been, for decades, engaged in a massive Newspeak (as in George Orwell’s 1984) campaign that creates a public illusion on what is being promised and what is coming to the schools and classrooms that are this country’s future. I know what the words and terms really mean to an Ed insider and how it differs from the common public perception. I have documented what was really behind the reading wars and math wars. I have pulled together what the real intended Common Core implementation looks like. And it is wildly different from the PR sales job used to gain adoption in most of the states.
I don't know about the old education systems' agenda, but I think it's safe to say that they at least want the products to at the very least be functionally literate. Such that you could get useful work from them other than mere manual labor.High IQ kids will rise either way, the education system in the past didn't influence the outcome of intelligent kids much either, it was more to keep below average IQ kids in line with the system, the ruling class want depopulation, miseducating below average intelligence will more likely lead them to early death.
The old eduction system gave people to ability to parrot and appear reasonably intelligent, go back a bit further before said systems and people in large swathes couldn't read or write, a lot of obvious stupidity was common, it seems we are going back to those times.
With the internet the high IQ kids have all they need, below average kids use the internet solely for entertainment.
Peat mentioned he was a progesterone baby - had a good start.High IQ kids will rise either way, the education system in the past didn't influence the outcome of intelligent kids much either, it was more to keep below average IQ kids in line with the system, the ruling class want depopulation, miseducating below average intelligence will more likely lead them to early death.
The old eduction system gave people to ability to parrot and appear reasonably intelligent, go back a bit further before said systems and people in large swathes couldn't read or write, a lot of obvious stupidity was common, it seems we are going back to those times.
With the internet the high IQ kids have all they need, below average kids use the internet solely for entertainment.
This isn't easy.Eighth-Grade Final Exam from 1895 - This is college level stuff these days!
Remember when our grandparents, great-grandparents, and such stated that they only had an 8th grade education?
This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 in Salina, KS, USA. It was taken from the original document on file at the Smokey Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, KS, and reprinted by the Salina Journal. 8th Grade Final Exam: Salina, KS -1895
Grammar (Time Limit - one hour)
Arithmetic (Time Limit - 1.25 hours)
- Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters.
- Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no Modifications.
- Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph.
- What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of lie, play and run.
- Define Case, Illustrate each Case.
- What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation.
- Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.
U.S. History (Time Limit - 45 minutes)
- Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
- A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?
- If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at 50 cts/bushel, deducting 1050 lbs. for tare?
- District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals?
- Find cost of 6720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton.
- Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
- What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at 20 per metre?
- Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.
- What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance around which is 640 rods?
- Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.
Orthography (Time Limit - one hour)
- Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided.
- Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus.
- Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.
- Show the territorial growth of the United States.
- Tell what you can of the history of Kansas.
- Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion.
- Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe?
- Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, 1865.
Geography (Time Limit - one hour)
- What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology, syllabication?
- What are elementary sounds? How classified?
- What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals?
- Give four substitutes for caret 'u.'
- Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e.' Name two exceptions under each rule.
- Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.
- Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, sup.
- Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the
sign that indicates the sound: card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last.- Use the following correctly in sentences: cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.
- Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication.
- What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
- How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas?
- Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?
- Describe the mountains of North America.
- Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco.
- Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S.
- Name all the republics of Europe and give the capital of each.
- Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude?
- Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers.
- Describe the movements of the earth. Give the inclination of the earth.
Also notice that the exam took six hours to complete.
I guess we can 'google' the answers .This isn't easy.
Ray's generation was among the smartest in terms of independent thought. Anyone who studied early 20th and 19th century scientists developed a certain kind of character called "inner-directedness." This is a term used by sociologist Riesman and is one of the most important and least obvious reasons why culture and politics declined so severely shortly after the Post-War period.
After the Baby Boomers, virtually every generation has been a snowballing effect of other-directedness. This is essentially the realization of some aspects of fascist societal dynamics without any hard control.
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