<OT> You won't believe this

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004, Leon Goldstein wrote:
>Joel Hammmer wrote inter alia:
>
>>The shame is that most voters are MS idiots, too, and
>>won't understand how irresponsible/stupid our elected
>>officials are. I have more security than this on my home
>>computer network.
>>
>Most of these elected officials know that their political success 
>depends on the ignorance and apathy of those who elect them to public 
>office.  This is why there is a conflict of interest in government 
>involvement in education.  A genuinely intelligent electorate would be 
>inimical to their careers.

One of the U.S. Presidential candidates in the 2000 election actually
claimed he wasn't elected because many of his supporters were too stupid to
figure out the ballot (ballots designed by his own party faithful :-).

Government schools are hardly interested in truly educating the young.
John Dewey, one of the founders of modern government schools said:

  ``The children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of
  the collective society that is coming, where everyone would be
  interdependent.''

  ``Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive
  anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be
  defined by their associations.''

Bill
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