Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.
Interpretation
The educational system is designed to maintain a level of thoughtlessness among the populace to ensure its own continuation.
This quote highlights a critical perspective on the purpose of the educational system, suggesting that it does not aim to cultivate critical thinking or independent thought. Instead, it is argued that the system is structured to produce compliance and uncritical support for existing societal structures, keeping individuals passive and unreflective in their thoughts and actions.
In practice
In a debate about educational reform, this quote can be used to argue for more critical and independent thinking in the curriculum.
Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today.
I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that. Let's go out and fix it.'
Writing practice brings us back to the uniqueness of our own minds and an acceptance of it. We all have wild dreams, fantasies, and ordinary thoughts. Let us to feel the texture of them and not be afraid of them.Writing is still the wildest thing I know.
What I really want are students who want to partner with other people, to be part of an organization and to influence people so that they can accomplish things that the organization would not have accomplished otherwise.
I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.
It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.
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