What is an Ideal Education?
In order to know where to go, we need to know where we’ve been, define what our goals are and what it looks like when we get there. Education is only a vehicle for passing on our culture to the next generation. It needs to be right. See our post on “What Is Education.”
What was it?
In the early Greek and Roman days, those in-charge recognized that educated citizens were better to have around and easier to manage.
In a similar way of thinking, people realized that education was a way of protecting the elite and that educated soldiers fought better and won more battles.
Later, churches noticed that their congregations were made stronger with good, solid education. Religious education proliferated.
Meanwhile, colleges and universities developed more sophisticated curricula that benefited elites who could pay the tuition.
As the government started to provide more for the needs of the people, public schooling was established and expanded.
As the Industry Revolution grew, education was needed to support the needed labor force.
Somewhere along the line, obligatory public education was established and it became the norm.
Specialized Education was invented to sell certain schools and provide specialized education giving the student a good chance of landing a job in the career field desired.
Somebody realized that you could spread ideas and beliefs through education and Progressive Education was born. Since then, almost everybody has used education to promoted ideas and philosophies or suppress the oposition.
Modern Education has become bureaucratic and a place from which to push radical ideas. Kids are indoctrinated with ideas that destroy America as we know it.
Harsh. Yes, maybe, but we never got anywhere by diminishing the problem.
Dream it.
Education today should be something that gives you the tools to live your life and Survive:
As an individual.
As a family member.
As a member of groups.
As a member of society and Mankind.
It’s how we continue our culture through our children. Students should be taught to read, write, do math, understand governments, culture and economics. They should contribute to society a positive way, be able to problem solve, think critically and communicate with others.
Get it back.
We need to return to the basics - a classic, liberal education. The fundamentals are important. Everything is based on them and we need to get them back. Fast.
It has to be done step-by-step. One step at a time.
While we live in a democratic type society (bottom up), but we let the government bureaus dictate to us (top down). We need to return to a system where we (the people) tell the government how it’s going to be.