Smartest Generation Ever

[Drareg]

Peat mentioned he was a progesterone baby - had a good start.

If you look at John Taylor Gatto's Ultimate History Lesson posted above (I know it's long) he was teacher of the year in NY City and NY State.
He taught kids in Harlem as well as upper-crust from West Manhattan. He decided to do himself a favor and teach them all the same way.
He found that the kids who were supposed to 'be stupid' excelled when treated as if they were intelligent and no braked put on the process.
So all those folks in these videos who could not answer questions were basically taught to be stupid - none were actually lacking intelligence.

WEAPONS OF MASS INSTRUCTION - Page xviii
Alexander Ingliss 1918 book, Principles of Secondary Education:
Inglis, for whom an honor lecture in education at Harvard is named, makes it perfectly clear that compulsory schooling on this continent was intended to be just what it had been for Prussia in the 1820S: a fifth column into the burgeoning democratic movement that threatened to give the peasants and the proletarians a voice at the bargaining table. Modern, industrialized, compulsory schooling was to make a sort of surgical intervention into the prospective unity of these underclasses.

Divide children by subject, by age-grading, by constant rankings on tests, and by many other more subtle means, and it was unlikely that the ignorant mass of mankind, separated in childhood, would ever re-integrate into a dangerous whole.

Inglis breaks down the purpose - the actual purpose - of modern schooling into six basic functions, anyone of which is enough to curl the hair of those innocent enough to believe the three traditional goals of education listed earlier:

I. The adjustive or adaptive function. Schools are to establish fixed habits of reaction to authority. This, of course, precludes critical judgment completely. It also pretty much destroys the idea that useful or interesting material should be taught, because you can't test for reflexive obedience until you know whether you can make kids learn, and do, foolish and boring things.

2. The integrating function. This might well be called "the conformity function;' because its intention is to make children as alike as possible. People who conform are predictable, and this is of great use to those who wish to harness and manipulate a large labor force.

3. The diagnostic and directive function. School is meant to determine each student's proper social role. This is done by logging evidence mathematically and anecdotally on cumulative records. As in "your permanent record:' Yes, you do have one.

4. The differentiating function. Once their social role has been "diagnosed;' children are to be sorted by role and trained only so far as their destination in the social machine merits - and not one step further. So much for making kids their personal best.

5. The selective function. This refers not to human choice at all but to Darwin's theory of natural selection as applied to what he called "the favored races:' In short, the idea is to help things along by consciously attempting to improve the breeding stock. Schools are meant to tag the unfit - with poor grades, remedial placement, and other punishments - clearly enough that their peers will accept them as inferior and effectively bar them from the reproductive sweepstakes. That's what all those little humiliations from first grade onward were intended to do: wash the dirt down the drain.

6. The propaedeutic function. The societal system implied by these rules will require an elite group of caretakers. To that end, a small fraction of the kids will quietly be taught how to manage this continuing project, how to watch over and control a population deliberately dumbed down and declawed in order that government might proceed unchallenged and corporations might never want for obedient labor.

The children of rich and powerful go to elite boarding schools where they get a real education.

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I think monitoring progesterone levels during birth may help, I still think there will be differences because of inherited markers.

This guys teaching sounds like he is aligning them with religious belief, I think its similar to whats being phased out now, just gets people in line, highly intelligent kids are primed in the womb for the most part, its an unfortunate reality.
I know 4 kids close to me in my extended family and compared to other kids in the extended family the difference is profound, 2 of the kids were born to a mother who had gestational diabetes with both pregnancies, peat mentioned it can cause precocious kids, all go to similar schools, where you see the difference is in their curiosity, energy levels and the speed of processing information, the other kids are normal good kids, one of the kids is now 16, she's a polyglot, again went to a normal school but watched youtube videos, her verbal capacity reminds me of peats, the analogy and metaphor, how she translates complex topics into words.

The kids are a joy to be around but the parents are exhausted sometimes, 2 of the boys are like engineers at 5 and 8, their constantly building things, when friends come round they think the dad is a hobbyist and he's doing it.

 

[Peatness]

UKCOLUMN - The Schools Bill

From News Extra: The Schools Bill

Alex Thomson runs through 25 tyrannical aspects of the UK Government’s breathtaking bill to allow it to turn every school and every child into the approved kind of school and child.

www.ukcolumn.org

 

[Peatness]

Autodidacticism - #SolutionsWatch - The Corbett Report

Who said education was boring? On the contrary. Knowing more about the world, improving your skills and achieving success is electrifying and addictive. But first you have to learn how to learn. Autodidacticism is the process of learning about a skill or a subject without a formal teacher, and...

www.corbettreport.com

SHOW NOTES:
GetAutonomy.info/ignite

GetAutonomy.info/freedomvault

Slow Your Scroll example episode

The Ultimate History Lesson w/ John Taylor Gatto

Vladislav Trétiak : entre Moscou et Montréal

Parrhesia by Benny Wills

Interview 1683 - James Corbett on Crisis and Community

Chris McMillon interview with John McAfee

Grand Theft World

 

[Peatress]

They are supposed to be smarter than previous generations


View: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1632439865840226304

 

[Peatress]

How Silicon Valley and the Defense Department Plan to Remake Public Education

Alison McDowell: Future Ready Schools - 2017


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWB_CBqVwSM