The Prostition of Knowledge!

I had an interesting conversation with a college student the other evening, who was majoring in teaching. So being the inquisitive dinner guest I am, I questioned him on the subject he'd prefer to teach. I was surprised to find he wanted to instruct history. So to further the conversation, I asked, why? Here was his logic.

History never changes, you pass on reading assignments, and it's not complicated to instruct. Naturally, I wanted to know if he had a grasp on history, was he studying it, and was he fascinated by the background stories that make it interesting? Nope, not at all. It was a class he could easily prepare for, and really only do it once, just be repetitive, then assign a project due at the end of class. So I asked him, what if the answers he was given were wrong? He wasn't concerned, he was taught to judge a student by their past grade performance, and look for key words in their assigned papers. Good students get good grades, and historically bad students get average grades.

Now I was hoping this wasn't a trend, but he's done several apprenticeships as part of his major, and this is the wisdom of his mentors being passed down. I'm starting to see why our cookie cutter education system is failing our youth. This, my friends, is exactly the result of the collusion of government and union influence on our school system. Tenure has inspired a ho hum attitude in our education system, and the worse part of it is, it's being taught to the new teachers. It isn't a wonder why teachers unions fight so viciously to avoid performance based pay systems.

It starts at the top, higher learning institutions, (colleges), have an open purse with government backed student loans. The tuition keeps going up, because the financing is guaranteed, and the quality of graduate is going down. The requirements are lowered to gain entry, so the seats are full of government backed income. Has anyone else noticed that in these tough economic times, the colleges are still expanding?

American exceptionalism is being sold out to a socialistic education mill. If our future depends on our youth, they best be educated outside the standard government funded school system. Even the private institutions are falling for government control as all their money is now fed to them by Uncle Sam. Knowledge is being prostituted for financial gain. This could be why a four year degree is the equivalent of a basic high school education of years ago.....

God Bless!
Capt. Bill