Who is really ruining schools. Is it conservatives and their 10 commandments?
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Who is really ruining schools. Is it conservatives and their 10 commandments?
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@ResurgetExFavilla
A think that a lot of the ugliest elements of modern American 'education' have been driven by privatization - particularly lowering standards.
Colleges are being replaced with trade schools and both are privately funded. Maybe you can't say Colleges are private anymore. I don't know.
From what I can tell the LGBTQ community runs the schools.
The thing is, most, if not all of these problems could be avoided if we privatized all education.
It is just bad teachers. The reality is, most school teachers simply have no business teaching and have no idea what they are doing. To a great extent it is true even at universities, for, as it turns out, a good scientist does not automatically make for a good communicator/educator.
Look, my dad grew up in freaking Soviet Union, with the level of brainwashing no Western kid will ever experience - and yet his teachers in non-political classes were awesome. Why? Because, as lousy as that regime was, teachers there (in the capital, at least) were respected, and becoming one was pretty hard: you had to demonstrate extraordinary leadership qualities to even be given an interview. And once you got the teaching job - especially at one of the better schools - you would be pressed to take it very seriously and work on your skills actively.
What I see in American schools is very different. The school near me has a couple of obese teachers running physical education classes... I grew up in post-Soviet Russia where most people become teachers because they cannot get any other job... Needless to say, most of them really sucked - yet even there I have never seen a physical education teacher who was out of shape.
Teachers' unions really have done a number here, but they are just a symptom of the real problem. The real problem is that people do not have high expectations of the teachers: it is somehow assumed and accepted that most teachers are going to suck and people are okay with it. I am not even talking about the creationist weirdos teaching kids Christian nonsense (this kind of thing does not fly even in most totalitarian dictatorships), but just about teachers who treat teaching like a frustrating job and have zero passion for it. No one would hire a running coach who does not run - but physical education teachers who do not exercise and eat junk all the time? Hell yes, bring the elephants in! This is what you get when you do not pay for something directly, but hand your money over to the government and let it decide what services you are going to get.
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@MayCaesar
Sorry to hear your family grew up in a socialist/liberal/left country. I know that liberal policies come with a lot of evil things. I hope you are in a place now with freedom
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@WyIted
I think there is something wrong with the language people use on the West. Soviet Union was not a liberal country, not in the slightest. :D Putin's regime is a liberal paradise in comparison. And, ironically, the current president of the country I am in seems to have a very strong affection for Putin, so I am not so sure about the freedom part either.
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@MayCaesar
It's not liberal it's conservative?
So telle more about how the USSR and Ron Paul have similar policies?
So the Soviet Union was conservative and believed in free markets and free speech and personal gun ownership etc.?
I never lived there maybe you are right if freedom is bad and lead to the USSR maybe I should oppose it
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@WyIted
"Conservatism" refers to the tendency to hold on to the customs and traditions and be extra-careful with allowing massive change to take place. "Liberalism" refers to preserving and advancing liberty. These are orthogonal concepts, and it is not my fault that most people on the West do not stop for a second to think about the meaning of the words they use.
As for Ron Paul, I do not think he has any policies at all. Just talking points that somehow lead him to thinking that every war in the Universe is the US' fault. He actually is quite liked by the current Russian regime: they still call such people "useful idiots". So I think he would have fit quite well in the Soviet Union. If you were an American critical of the US government, then in USSR you could get away with saying pretty much anything. Why do you think Bobby Fischer liked spending time there so much?
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@MayCaesar
"Conservatism" refers to the tendency to hold on to the customs and traditions and be extra-careful with allowing massive change to take place. "
Bro, AI am a conservative and AI would change so much shit.
Also how would Ron Paul be a useful idiot, his ideology if spread in Russia would result in economic freedom and a virtual utopia. You can look at the economic freedom index which measures how closely a country aligns with Ron Paul's values and the higher on the list they are, the better they tend to do in terms of quality of living
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@WyIted
He is a useful idiot because, like many self-proclaimed libertarians in the US, he only seems to care about the misdoings of the US government - and other governments get a free pass from him (unless they are strongly allied with the US government). In the Russian-Ukrainian conflict his position is clear: it happened, you see, because the US meddled with the Russian expansionist plans and Putin did not like it. The US government offended the poor dictator and he snapped...
Earlier, during the protests in Hong Kong, he suggested that they were sponsored by the US government. The guy is a nutcase. But, again, people in Russia love him. Not sure about China - my guess is they would love him too, if they knew who he was.
A principled liberal (I use this word in its actual meaning) would be consistent in his criticism of abuses of power by governments. This guy is not principled at all, as I said earlier. I am, on the other hand: I can criticize the US government while acknowledging that it is still a far gentler government than the most - and I will not scoop down to defending foreign dictators' actions just for the sake of sticking it to the domestic ones. But then, I am a thinker, while Ron is a politician. I have come to not expect much from politicians. His son though is quite reasonable.
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@MayCaesar
It's more important to criticize your own government because that's the government you may actually be able to influence and DOGE has uncovered American born foreign influence campaigns so this needs to be criticized we should be improving our own government not trying to influence others.
In the Russian-Ukrainian conflict his position is clear: it happened, you see, because the US meddled with the Russian expansionist plans and Putin did not like it.
It's literally none of our business if Russia is expansionist. It has zero effects on America and never will. If it ever does we have first strike capability so we can merely eliminate Russia from existence.
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@WyIted
Russia has thousands of nukes, my friend... It is okay to oppose foreign interventions - I do myself - but it is silly to hide one's head in the sand and pretend that what happens over there has no impact on people's lives here.
It is one thing to focus on criticizing one's own government, and another to accuse it of everything and always assume that foreign dictatorships are in the right as long as one's government is involved there. Yaron Brook does the former, but acknowledges at the same time that most foreign governments are worse still, and will not come up with wild conspiracy theories and weird justifications of Russian invasions (as if Russia has ever needed any justifications to go somewhere and pillage). Ron Paul is one of those wackos who get a lot of publicity for making outrageous statements about the government, but underneath cool slogans there is nothing there.
Which brings me back to education: in the US ignorance somehow is not condemned. An idiot like Destiny will have millions of followers, while a hardcore expert on multiple geopolitical issues like Douglas Murray will be panned for daring to suggest that Joe Rogan's comedian guest might not be the best guy to speak on the situation in Gaza. People are sneering derisively at the word "expert" even.
With all of their flaws, in Russia and China, there is a real universal respect for intellect. People may condemn someone's ideas (word "condemn" does not do it justice), but condemnation of being knowledgeable and deep-thinking itself is not really a thing there. Here, something is seriously screwed up in this respect.
Russia has thousands of nukes, my friend... It is okay to oppose foreign interventions - I do myself - but it is silly to hide one's head in the sand and pretend that what happens over there has no impact on people's lives here.
first strike capability my friend
It is one thing to focus on criticizing one's own government, and another to accuse it of everything and always assume that foreign dictatorships are in the right as long as one's government is involved there. Yaron Brook does the former, but acknowledges at the same time that most foreign governments are worse still, and will not come up with wild conspiracy theories and weird justifications of Russian invasions (as if Russia has ever needed any justifications to go somewhere and pillage). Ron Paul is one of those wackos who get a lot of publicity for making outrageous statements about the government, but underneath cool slogans there is nothing there.
What weird conspiracy, the only statement is russia might feel they have been backed into a corner with nato's exanding presence.
Which brings me back to education: in the US ignorance somehow is not condemned. An idiot like Destiny will have millions of followers, while a hardcore expert on multiple geopolitical issues like Douglas Murray will be panned for daring to suggest that Joe Rogan's comedian guest might not be the best guy to speak on the situation in Gaza. People are sneering derisively at the word "expert" even.
from what I remember of that episode he was asked his opinion and then was shut down for giving it despite being asked and the "expert" Was also speaking with opinions he was also not an expert in at times. Plus destiny is your guy. Thats who you guys like and quite frankly I watch CNN to see your typical liberal view and destiny is smarter than your average liberal.
With all of their flaws, in Russia and China, there is a real universal respect for intellect. People may condemn someone's ideas (word "condemn" does not do it justice), but condemnation of being knowledgeable and deep-thinking itself is not really a thing there. Here, something is seriously screwed up in this respect.
The government was trying to shut down divisive speech in the UNited States instead of allowing it to be a free market as seen in the Twitter files and even Zuckerburg acknowledged the United States government intimidated him out of allowing posts they deemed "untrue" similar to how North Korea and Russia strangle information.
Look you either love freedom like a republican or hate it like a democrat or liberal or whatever you call it. same thing