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Review for 05/13/03 - The Public Education System of the United States of America
I'm now going to review something that all of you know intimately. Every single person here has had experience with this, no matter what age. It is one of the most well known and infamous things in this country. It is the Public Education System. Now, of course, I can only review this horribly corrupted institution from a limited point of view. I've only attended two school systems in my life. Regardless, it is often the case that the flaws can be found in school systems across the country. But what is wrong with the school system? Why do so many students feel so disaffected, and flee it at a higher rate than ever before? Is the public education system really screwing children and adolescents over? I'd say yes and no. What afflicts this institution is the same problem that afflicted religion from the Middle Ages to the modern Protestant Revival. That is, the religion lost it's meaning when true piety and belief were replaced by ceremony and procedure. The education system has grown so large that it has to work like a factory: if students meet certain numerically-based requirements, they are considered ready to enter the workforce (something else I will touch on). Education here in America has, for the large part, been boiled down to the mundane memorization of written facts and the regurgitation of them on standardized tests. There is little actual "learning" taking place. Learning involves the establishment of connections between facts: only then do facts become knowledge. As I have said, this seldom happens in public education. Here's where I realized it's not so bad: that's not what the public education exists for. It exists to create a workforce to replace the current one, which will eventually stop working. So long as they prove themselves competent in school, which ultimately proves to be only subtly developmental, rather than an actual establishment of knowledge. This also applies to many of the state universities and community colleges. Might I add that the system also serves another, unanticipated purpose: to subdue what is otherwise the most criminally-inclined population in America. The crux of this review, however, is that public education serves to the lowest common denominator. I know personally that this institution is forced to bring down the people with true potential just so the average and less-than won't be left behind; to uphold the American ideals of equality and equal opportunity. This is crucial to understanding the accomplishments and failures of this insitution. Cool Hand Luke give the public education system of the U.S.A... 
Three cigarettes. Just because it fulfills it's purpose as a bureaucratic organization, churning out a workforce while Machiavelli laughs maniacally with the Secretary of Education. Yes, it did screw me over. Yes, I am bitter. Comments from the other gods: College is bettah. [=The Stadholder=] GIVE US SOME STRANGE AND MYSTERIOUS THINGS TO REVIEW HERE!
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