Thursday, July 26, 2012

Chris Hedges on “Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System” | Seattle Education

Chris Hedges on “Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System” | Seattle Education:

Chris Hedges on “Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System”


I posted an excerpt from this article in a Weekly Update last year and believe that this would be a good time to revisit this essay considering the campaign to privatize our schools in the state of Washington once again, this time by Bill Gates and the Waltons, through Initiative 1240.
This article was originally posted in truthdig on April 11, 2011.
Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System
by Chris Hedges
A nation that destroys its systems of education, degrades its public information, guts its public libraries and turns its airwaves into vehicles for cheap, mindless amusement becomes deaf, dumb and blind. It prizes test scores above critical thinking and literacy. It celebrates rote vocational training and the singular, amoral skill of making money. It churns out stunted human products, lacking the capacity and vocabulary to challenge the assumptions and structures of the corporate state. It funnels them into a caste system of drones and systems