Diseducating America: The Legacy Of A Fraudulent Education System

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The higher education system in America is the most rampant case of consumer fraud I can think of... in fact I stormed into the Provost's office and threatened to sue and expose the fraud (a professor had falsified her credentials). What got me going on this today is an article by Bruce Deitrick Price in the American Thinker entitled "K-16: Land of Lies" (I'll include a link below). What I want to offer is some of my experiences along the same line that Mr. Price takes in his superbly written article.

The number one problem, according to Price, is that nobody seems to be able to write in complete sentences. Anybody that's read much of my stuff on Steemit knows that I never went to school- my education prior to college comes from reading and a couple of years being taught at home by my Uncle Arthur. Naturally when I was accepted by a university, I was terrified... I had 3 1/2 months of adult ed and a GED. I was admitted on the strength of a few stories that I had hastily written. I thought I would be unprepared to go up against "America's best and brightest." My fears, I learned, were totally unfounded.

My first semester I took 4 classes, more or less, to see how I would fare... Three 100 level and one 300 (I wanted to see how tough the advanced classes were). The 300 level was in Science Fiction & Fantasy- something with which I had some familiarity. The professor and I became friends- he was what I thought a college professor was supposed to be... tough! Unfortunately, the university disagreed and his contract wasn't renewed. He went to work for the Mackinaw Center, a think tank, doing studies on education. He interviewed the executives in charge of hiring at major corporations and their largest complaint about recent college grads was that "nobody can write."

I took a class in Creative Writing with the professor whose letter had been instrumental in getting me into college. He had written a novel himself and suggested I read it... it was terrible. You could easily tell by reading it that he had never experienced any of the things his characters did- this from a guy whose mantra was "write what you know." It read like an academic treatise rather than a work of fiction. Here's one problem with the education system right there... you can't teach what you don't know. There's an old adage "Those that can do- do... those who can't- teach." There may be some truth in that, but what if you can't teach?

The university I attended used to be Michigan Teachers College and the Education Dept. was the largest on campus. What I learned was that the students that actually belonged in college either went to grad school or to work in the private sector after graduation. Mediocre students took jobs in government. The very lowest students on the academic totem-pole, went into teaching. One student I remember, who was an education major, finally got caught copying and pasting all the material for his papers. He got caught because a professor asked a question about the content of one (I was in the class) and the idiot hadn't even read it. This is who's teaching our children.

According to Prices article, the problem of plagiarism is rampant. That coupled with an inability to write cohesively presents a huge problem for employers. The problem doesn't seem to be limited to undergrads either. My friend Kris' dad was the head of Michigan Fish & Game. He was reviewing applicants for a Summer internship and had asked for essays. One applicant, a grad student in Microbiology submitted an essay about the zebra mussel problem in the Great Lakes. It began: "Zebra muscles, those pesky moluskes..." (I shit you not!) Is it any wonder that beginning in my Freshman year, I made a fortune ghost writing Master's Theses???

This is also much of the thrust of Price's article... the huge market for people that write fraudulent documents. Most of the kids that enter college are unable to function at the high school level. It isn't their fault. From grade 1 onward, fundamental skills in reading, writing, mathematics, etc. are ignored by teachers that are unable to perform themselves. Perhaps Nelson Mandela was right afterall:

By keeping children ignorant, they carry the same lack of skills into adulthood... the only people that benefit from education at any level are administrators and the corrupt teacher's union. The purpose of education in America is indoctrination. They churn out generation after generation of compliant sheep, steeped in Cultural Marxist propaganda and bogus science... and people wonder why nobody but a few can see through the bullshit the mass media is selling as truth.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/09/k16_land_of_lies.html

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