'Do away with private schools'

[dlk001]

Furthermore, they are essentially saying "government is unable to run schools properly, therefore all schools should be run by government."

+1 Nail in the coffin.

 

[Tpex]

Retarded commies...

Most if not all ANC big guns send their kids to private school. Never gonna happen

+1 I wnet to school with Zuma's nephew

 

[Nanfeishen]

A huge part of fascism is to control the educational system, so it makes sense that they want to abolish private schools.

The template for our educational system can trace back to the now vanished, though never to be forgotten, military state of Prussia.

The "dumbing down" of the masses to suit the elite.

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
http://www.amazon.com/Dumbing-Down-Curriculum-Compulsory-Schooling/dp/0865714487

the aim of public education is not:

to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence. ... Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim ... is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States... and that is its aim everywhere else.

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.

The actual purpose - of modem schooling into six basic functions, any one of which is enough to curl the hair of those innocent enough to believe the three traditional goals listed earlier:

1) 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.

http://www.spinninglobe.net/againstschool.htm

It is through the methodical destruction and purposeful elimination of the means by which a society educates and enlightens itself. The evisceration of a system that extols accountability and dialogue, opens up the gates of opportunity with the keys of ability, questions authority and seeks debate, creates a wealth of knowledge and illuminates talent and that births an informed citizenry and creates free thinking, analytical minds has been slowly implemented for the last several decades. The dumbing down continues into the present, unrelenting and unhindered, squashing the masses for the benefit of the elite.

A giant threat to the system is being disposed of, systematically and without remorse, making citizens yet one more cog in the engine called capitalistic exploitation of humanity.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15280.htm

The eradication of private schooling is just another stepping stone to total control and the eradication of free thinking, inovational, intelligent individuals, who can one day oppose the system and instigate reform.

 

[psichron]

OK, you seem to have your political ideologies a bit mixed up... Fascists are typically very Right Wing.

The ANC government is very left wing.... more socialist or communist.

The ANC has taken a hard-right recently.
Stuff like media censorship, anti-porn, anti-drug laws and banning of online gambling are good examples of anti-liberal trends within the government.

 

[Nerfherder]

But have we not established that the ANC is so far left that they have ended up right?

Yes, I agree with that 100%

Oh and you are wrong Garry but its too late to argue.

 

[BobsLawnService]

Because the problem isn't the teachers in their union assaulting students who just want to learn...

 

[psichron]

The template for our educational system can trace back to the now vanished, though never to be forgotten, military state of Prussia.

The "dumbing down" of the masses to suit the elite.

Yea, the problem with that kind of paranoid thinking is that you forget about Universities and Colleges.

1) The adjustive or adaptive function. Schools are to establish fixed habits of reaction to authority.

In Uni/College, it's pretty much ubiquitous for students to challenge authority and discuss their rights and place in society. If schools really did establish such habits, Uni destroys them almost completely.

2) The integrating function. This might well be called "the conformity function,

Don't know if you've ever been to a campus but ya... Exact opposite of this.

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

Uni is exactly that "one step further". And of course you get to choose exactly what you want to study and how much effort you will put into it.

5) The selective function.

In uni nobody gives a damn about how others perform. It's only you against yourself. You get out of it what you put into it.

 

[noxibox]

Yea, the problem with that kind of paranoid thinking is that you forget about Universities and Colleges.

In Uni/College, it's pretty much ubiquitous for students to challenge authority and discuss their rights and place in society. If schools really did establish such habits, Uni destroys them almost completely.

Don't know if you've ever been to a campus but ya... Exact opposite of this.

Uni is exactly that "one step further". And of course you get to choose exactly what you want to study and how much effort you will put into it.

In uni nobody gives a damn about how others perform. It's only you against yourself. You get out of it what you put into it.

There has been a lamentable decline in non-conformism at university. However even when there is non-conformism it is primarily amongst those whom schools have failed to properly brainwash. Overall it is definitely not the exact opposite.

It is questionable that university, even at its most non-conformist, does much to undo 12 years of brainwashing. The main non-conformists were already fighting against conformism during their school days.

Your university marks are also part of your permanent record.

 

[psichron]

There has been a lamentable decline in non-conformism at university. However even when there is non-conformism it is primarily amongst those whom schools have failed to properly brainwash. Overall it is definitely not the exact opposite.

It is questionable that university, even at its most non-conformist, does much to undo 12 years of brainwashing. The main non-conformists were already fighting against conformism during their school days.

Your university marks are also part of your permanent record.

Of course marks make part of your permanent record, that's preferable. And about your worries on non-conformism, I guess you haven't been to uni