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The goals of modern Western Frankish culture are Utilitarian (not Christian or Sacramental), and are rooted in the false types and images (icons) of Papism and Protestantism which spawned the philosophical secular humanistic "Renaissance" and "Enlightenment", and the Frankish Prussian social model that weds (big corporate) "business" to the state through forced schooling.
The Land of Frankenstein
American modernism (schooling in particular, government also) is based on the Prussian model that marries “business” to the state.
The Demon of Overproduction
Coal, and later oil, relentlessly forced a shift in crucial aspects of social life: our relation to nature, our relation to each other, our relation to ourselves. But nowhere was the impact greater than in the upbringing of children.
Managerial Utopia
Before we could be Modern, the past had to be uprooted with village culture, tight families, and independent livelihoods. Only state religion had power to do this—but America lacked one. As Protestantism broke apart, America came into possession of something in its place—a tradition of Utopian exhortation, a full palette of of roving Experts and teachers
Public “Schooling” (including “Higher Education”) is rooted in the modernistic philosophy of “Efficiency” applied for “Dumbing Down” of the population, not the teaching of entreprenuership which might erode the market share of big business. Dumbing down students produces a corporate labor pool as intended, consisting of consumers instead of entrepreneurs, who consume higher education in order to qualify for corporate employment at higher salary than “unskilled”, “menial” manual labor, and the fringe “benefit” of greater consumer consumption that such pay enables.
Evaluating Bush Administration’s “No Child Left Behind”
“[A]dministration of the law is driving the US curriculum in the opposite direction from what a twenty-first-century economy requires.”
[See also: Sir Ken Robinson The Element ]
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