Ignorance. Education used to involve being force-fed a whole lot of stuff that wasn't relevant to getting a job. It wasn't fun, it wasn't enjoyable, and it wasn't cheap. But boy, it taught you to think. It gave you the tools to make valid decisions.
Now, the only people in possession of those tools are the ones who had the sense to make their own. Education was the first thing to be sold out, sold to the glib theorists with the soundbites like "learning through discovery." Yeah, right. If they trained soldiers and sailors and marines the way they teach kids...well, just imagine.
Rote learning, dates and kings, dead languages and dead composers and dead painters...it may be boring, it may be unpleasant, and it may have to be enforced by (el gaspo) discipline. But it gets the stuff in there and gives the brain something to deal with. It's bran flakes for the mind. And the constipated minds we see running the world today, the legacy of modern education, are its greatest advertisement.
IMHO (TEP)
Now, the only people in possession of those tools are the ones who had the sense to make their own. Education was the first thing to be sold out, sold to the glib theorists with the soundbites like "learning through discovery." Yeah, right. If they trained soldiers and sailors and marines the way they teach kids...well, just imagine.
Rote learning, dates and kings, dead languages and dead composers and dead painters...it may be boring, it may be unpleasant, and it may have to be enforced by (el gaspo) discipline. But it gets the stuff in there and gives the brain something to deal with. It's bran flakes for the mind. And the constipated minds we see running the world today, the legacy of modern education, are its greatest advertisement.