The Success of Socialist Schooling

George Rebane

In the last Dark Days Diary (here) I highlighted a short dissertation on the spread of communism by a former KGB agent.  As we have frequently pointed out, and he confirms, the spread of that evil ideology is made possible by its acolytes initially gaining control of a target nation’s public educational system.  This is from the Marxist-Leninist playbook – ‘let me educate one generation of your youth to assure communism’s triumph.’  In the United States we are now educating the third generation with a curriculum that ranges between pure trash and insidious collectivist propaganda – e.g. Critical Race Theory.  And this is done in our public K-12 schools and also academe, which has for the most part eliminated all dissenting voices and thought on their campuses.

Historian and classicist Victor Davis Hanson makes the extensive case (here and here) that this onerous task is being carried out by teachers’ unions and faculty associations which have wholeheartedly embraced the goal of a socialist world order.  Their success can be measured by the fraction of our graduates who are profoundly ignorant of their American heritage and equally lacking skill sets which enable their entry into a productive workforce.  A disturbing share of them find work with government as the employer of last resort.  There they immediately fit in with the correctly thinking and compliant deep state extension of the Democratic Party, doing its work no matter who currently happens to control Congress or reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

For the Left, this fortuitous outcome is to a large extent the fault of our ‘go along to get along’ Republicans.  Over the years they, as the conservators of our Constitution, have shown little interest to understand and a backbone to resist the nation’s ratcheting of anti-American public policies.  The Republicans appear to measure their political progress by how good they feel when grumbling and griping about the Left to their likeminded constituents in cloistered gatherings.  These pity-party nodding sessions motivate only a trickling of attendees, if that, to take an active stance to counter the encroach of socialism in their communities.  The rank-and-file Republican then returns to his homestead to continue living a productive and non-contentious life minding his own business.

The only plausible road back (from beyond the tipping point to the Great Divide) is to regain local control of educating our children.  Rebane Doctrine has long taught that to do this is to change education policy so that in the public funding of education the money follows the student, and parents determine where the students are schooled.  This calls for a restructuring of our education industry into a more open-market, capitalistic format, and away from the rank socialist structure of today.  In the main, K-12 education should be available to parents in the same manner as is the choice of a college education.  This means that schools would become transparent for-profit institutions that make their performance (quality of their product) accessible to their clients.  Overall, given today’s cost of education, such a change would significantly reduce costs, and increase the relevance and quality of the delivered education.

Our leftwing knows that Sapir-Whorf’s theory of language enabling thought (q.v.) is correct as was made public by Orwell and put in practice on a national scale by Mao et al.  Today’s public educated true believers can neither believe in the existence of alternative ways to organize a beneficial society, nor understand where our nation’s present path is taking us (e.g. evidence of that abounds in these pages).

No one knows the truth of all this more than does our Democratic Party which has viewed their support of socialized education as required maintenance of their private manufactory of an ever-increasing horde of compliant constituents and unquestioning voters.  The last thing our Left will tolerate is making school choice possible and letting parents decide where their children will be schooled.

Comments

[Scott O]

"The last thing our Left will tolerate is making school choice possible and letting parents decide where their children will be schooled."
Yep.
Look at the parents that simply tried to stop part of the curriculum - "Call the FBI! Terrorism!"
You need a majority of voters to demand an end to govt run education nation-wide. Since we don't have that, and it doesn't look like you're going to obtain one, what now?

[Barry Pruett]

Yes. There has been talk around town of opening school similar to the John Adams Academy in Roseville offering a classical, patriotic education.

[scenes]

"The only plausible road back (from beyond the tipping point to the Great Divide) is to regain local control" full stop.

Just thinking about it for a sec, I'd say that one of the main causes for the emergence of Oceania is the firming up of remote control governing. Computer/communications systems, job hyperspecialization, the natural tendency for power to centralize, things work differently when you deal with matters face to face.

Does anybody really think that people like Adam Schiff, President Potato, AOC, or Jeb! would naturally attain power in a society with distributed power or a hunter-gatherer clan? Low-T males and crazy-eye wimmen will be the death of us all.

[scenes]

"There has been talk around town of opening school similar to the John Adams Academy in Roseville "

I love the idea, but the problem is that it's always 'talk' except for those personally trying to set it up.

100+ years ago, men of means funded local libraries, public buildings, opened schools, there were quite a few philanthropists.

Now? Not much except for the occasional funding of a plaque on a statue.

It's pretty hard to write a large check when you might still need the money, but I strongly doubt the staying power of local works, let's say a Great Books sort of school, unless some number of people put the thing in their will. Typically the money goes to the grandchildren or some cousin to buy a new car or a house, all while explaining why something like a classical education is a good idea.

[George Rebane]

Speaking of dumbed down socialist schooling, to become an actuary today is harder than ever, and only a small share of those attempting it do finally succeed. See the last Scattershots for details and an example question.
https://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2021/12/scattershots-22dec21.html

[scenes]

re: actuaries

Wouldn't that simply be the handful of people who write the software/spreadsheets? Admittedly, finding the odds in a novel situation is non-trivial. You could argue that that's one of the grand challenges in machine learning as actions are all about perceived outcomes.

[George Rebane]

scenes 1155am - I'm sure that the industry has developed a lot of spreadsheet algos to handle repetitive type cases - just plug in the new numbers and turn the crank. But the real problems that, say, most insurance underwriters face is calculating market (fair?) prices for premiums on policies that insure one-of-kind assets and events. Developing combat systems for new types of threats involves the next higher level of such probabilistics, and the added professional risk is always that you overlooked some subtle stochastics or combinatorics that appear obvious after a colleague points it out during a project review meeting (aka the shark tank). Been on both sides of that one.