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[Le Taz Hot]

5. I've posited this same theory right here on DU

several times and, basically, get laughed out of the room for it each time. I don't care, of course, because I know I'm right. I see the results in a student population that can't tell the difference between "to," "too," and "two." They have no idea how to form a critical, much less independent thought. (Enter Faux Nooze.) The dumbing down of American education was DELIBERATE. Why? Because the activism of the Boomers scared the shit out of them and it was important that education become all about training worker bees for production (example, teaching to the test, i.e., production) and not about training academics. Academics ask questions. Academics are critical thinkers who reach Level 5 (or 4, depending upon which scale you're using) on the Cognitive Rigor Scale. They KNOW when they're being manipulated. What we "teach" now is how to produce more for the 1% for lower wages and how to be consumers (you don't need to know HOW to add and subtract, just PURCHASE a calculator).