Abdicating reasoning: Surrendering the debate over teaching, testing and assessment to the constables of obedience training | Dailycensored.com

Abdicating reasoning: Surrendering the debate over teaching, testing and assessment to the constables of obedience training | Dailycensored.com:

Abdicating reasoning: Surrendering the debate over teaching, testing and assessment to the constables of obedience training

by Danny Weil

In 2010 I wrote what follows below.  Since then, if you go to Truthout (GOP Declares no more critical thinking in schools, (http://truth-out.org/news/item/10144-texas-gop-declares-no-more-teaching-of-critical-thinking-skills-in-texas-public-schools) one can clearly begin to see just how damaging the forces of ideological control are and how irrationalism and unreason litter America’s cultural landscape.

Reactionary forces understand that in order to maintain high levels of concentration of social wealth alongside rampant inequality that both need each other and run concurrently, the average citizen must not know that he or she is being controlled.  Freedom truly must become ignorance and this ‘alchemy’ is accomplished through neo-feudal ideological forces that pose as education while assuring false