Education Standards and Totalitarian Conformity
by Danny Weil
This is the seventh of a series of guest posts by Dr Danny Weil from an article (World Class Standards: Whose World, Which Economic Classes and What Standards?) he originally published in Daily Censored.
In this seventh section, Dr Weil argues that federal imposition of educational standards essentially programs children to be obedient subjects of a totalitarian society.
Standards and the False Claim to Universality and Objectivity
By Dr Danny Weil
Human beings come to educational sites with different cultures, backgrounds, opportunities and constraints. Post-formalism alleges that rationalistic universal standards are really socio-historical constructs, and at this juncture, peculiar constructs allied to the needs of a particular socio-economic system—post-modern capitalism. They argue that they are little more than dominant-based claims, scientific, mechanical formulas and regulations that educational elites proclaim as immutable and non-transformational, but which in actuality are socially and historically created. By masquerading as objective science, standards become a tool for imposing conformity
