Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Education or manipulation?


Apparently there are those that think our ancestors always had the worst of motives when they presented their ideas. John A. McDonald and Sir Isaac Brock were not creating a country they were stealing. Samuel de Champlain, Henry Hudson and Giovanni Caboto were not mapping new country they were subjugating the populace in “new” lands.

Having read some of the writings of John A. and of those around him I’m 100% sure that he wanted free of the oppressive, ignorant demands of the British Colonial Secretary. His second concern was that the neighbor to the south would attempt to absorb “his” country.

He also thought that the various “Indian” (ie: aboriginal) peoples would be defeated by a more efficient economic system and history proved him correct. He also thought that they should learn some of the systems brought from Europe or the peoples, their societies and language would also disappear. History almost proved that to be correct as well but due to an understanding imparted by the education system some of those languages … and societies … may be saved.
It is also true that the education system was poorly managed. It was full of concepts that had nothing to do with education and turned the schools into prisons, torture chambers, and mental destructors.
As it is practiced today education in general has a great many short-comings, but thankfully nothing as bad as what the “residential” system became.
Remember that the “residential” system started off as a supportive, constructive idea. It became a way to destroy the various aboriginal societies, and to eliminate the various languages and spirituality.
It was not, initially, intended to be that way.
A top shelf educational system should have the goal of teaching students how to think constructively and artistically. However they are now systems designed to make students think “THE WAY YOU ARE TOLD TO THINK.”
Apparently we have all kinds of money to pay for things that don’t really matter such as foreign aid, UN membership and attendance, trade junkets (commercial enterprises should be paying for that), Federal and Provincial “studies” (on a few dozen matters that anyone dealing with them could answer for free), or for legislation that in many cases should be paid for by insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies or special interest groups.
We don’t have money for schools, military veterans (who should be handling, when still in service, Foreign Aid), or seniors.
No money for school drama or music and very little for sports. Without sports a high percentage of the kids are likely going to be overweight and die early from circulatory problems. Without arts to develop minds they could precipitate almost any destruction one could imagine.
They certainly won’t have an education.
By the way, Sir Isaac Brock was a British soldier doing what British Parliament had told him to do.

Champlain, Hudson and Caboto would, in today’s world, be considered civil engineers or “surveyors”.

Education
By D.M. McGowan 2018

They taught us many things in school and some of us where fine
At following the words and rules along a designated line
A few were branded trouble when they left the proven trail
And popped the system bubble when they just refused to fail

“If you do exactly what we say you’re sure to get an “A”
Though you may not learn very much to help you through the day
But you’ll get the all important grade and be every politician’s dupe
For if you follow where you’re lead you’ll think they speak the truth”

What many didn’t see both students and the staff
It isn’t learning simple facts but how to love and laugh
Edison, Curie, Gates and Einstein they all had imagination
They didn’t follow another’s path or stay locked within their station.

Sure there is knowledge we all need in writing, science and math
Some we need more than others depending on our chosen path
And if you intend to just get along to do only as you’re told
What need for any new idea? What need to be so bold?

But if you intend to make a mark to be a Gates, or Jobs or Woz
You’ll need some imagination to be anywhere near the top
How do you exercise imagination, build its strength and survival?
Understand poetry, fiction and music to rise above any rival.


“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.” Marie Curie.

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”  Jane Austen

“Study the past and you’ll know your mistakes aren’t unique.” Dave McGowan


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