In his last interview, Sagan said it was imperative for Americans to practice skepticism, educate themselves and to question authority. "Otherwise we don't run the government, the government runs us."
These authoritarian fools don’t know what science means! They think it’s all about fixed beliefs, credentialing and expert power which couldn’t be further from what science is all about …
The purpose of public education is to instill compliance and to indoctrinate.
That’s it.
Which is exactly why Prussia, a tiny nation that needed to maximize its resources and needed soldiers, workers and farmers all marching the same way to survive developed it that way, the other example is Sparta.
Sparta needed soldiers and slaves, the same.
We don’t. Our government and elites DO.
Not to mention giving Teachers dreaming of glory and fantasy realms have access to military age males - and we wonder why students march?
Science has been irredeemably corrupted and has no hope of redemption until cutoff from the spigots of public funding.
Good article. I am an applied scientist, professionally, and I trust the 'scientific community' less than ever.
These authoritarian fools don’t know what science means! They think it’s all about fixed beliefs, credentialing and expert power which couldn’t be further from what science is all about …
The purpose of public education is to instill compliance and to indoctrinate.
That’s it.
Which is exactly why Prussia, a tiny nation that needed to maximize its resources and needed soldiers, workers and farmers all marching the same way to survive developed it that way, the other example is Sparta.
Sparta needed soldiers and slaves, the same.
We don’t. Our government and elites DO.
Not to mention giving Teachers dreaming of glory and fantasy realms have access to military age males - and we wonder why students march?