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Solly Mack

(97,461 posts)
32. Education as labor force training.
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 12:18 AM
Jun 2018

Emphasis on turning out worker bees who are obedient to authority and have no thoughts of their own. They'll learn how bad unions are and how the company has their best interests at heart. They'll learn their only value is in working hard and never complaining. Never expecting more. Never having choices.



Education is so much more than learning a trade or having a profession.

It makes us better people. It teaches us to think and to look beyond what we think we know to a world of infinite possibilities. It tells us to dare to dream and then gives us the tools to make those dreams come true.

Education should never be used as some blueprint for conditioning young minds to be mindless workers for the state.

Education should free your mind. Education doesn't seek to narrow the possibilities, but rather opens them up.

It teaches us we have choices and provides the necessary information to make the best choice possible.

Education helps us to grow.

Solly Mack, former Educator and someone who still believes in the power of knowledge.





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WHAT ?? pangaia Jun 2018 #1
Exactly. Keep the chaos rolling; Putin is applauding. lagomorph777 Jun 2018 #5
NO, NOT TRUCK FUMP....... a kennedy Jun 2018 #10
Remember Rick Perry debate? Eliminate Departments of? OhNo-Really Jun 2018 #25
It was the Department of Energy neohippie Jun 2018 #39
He wanted to eleminat 3 Departments, EDUCATION was one of the 3 OhNo-Really Jun 2018 #42
Yes I was just filling in your blank neohippie Jun 2018 #43
All the better to kill Teacher Unions! James48 Jun 2018 #2
+1 Part of the plan. appalachiablue Jun 2018 #33
I wish the White House would vote to eliminate itself. mwooldri Jun 2018 #3
the effort to drown it in a bathtub continues unabated. NRaleighLiberal Jun 2018 #4
Idiots. Wrong merger. They should merge Agriculture and Veterans Affairs dalton99a Jun 2018 #6
children + work equals child labor BigmanPigman Jun 2018 #7
First thing that crossed my mind. Nothing surprises me any more. pazzyanne Jun 2018 #14
Let it turn. Crutchez_CuiBono Jun 2018 #27
Who will lead this new Department of Laborious Education? nature-lover Jun 2018 #8
Mindset that view education only as training. Not for a questioning electorate. Do as you are told. Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2018 #9
My first thought as well. n/t Coventina Jun 2018 #21
WTF?!? What's his scam, a pipeline directly from Kindergarten to Princess Royal's catbyte Jun 2018 #11
They forgot ..... Toorich Jun 2018 #12
Why wouldn't they just merge Education and Health and Human Services and simply call it Midwestern Democrat Jun 2018 #13
Because that makes more sense? pazzyanne Jun 2018 #15
Merge smerge Crutchez_CuiBono Jun 2018 #29
Don't trust these clowns to merge a mail list let alone any part of our government bucolic_frolic Jun 2018 #16
Makes perfect sense. The Department of Child Labor. Eom tarheelsunc Jun 2018 #17
Good idea. I've long thought the Bureau of Labor Statistics would make an excellent mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2018 #18
but they do completely different things.... that makes no sense Takket Jun 2018 #19
Bc nobody is stopping them. Crutchez_CuiBono Jun 2018 #30
No critical thinking skills needed for the masses working for the rich Freethinker65 Jun 2018 #20
Thank You Donny BlueIdaho Jun 2018 #22
First step to eliminate the Labor Department, next the Education goes. procon Jun 2018 #23
Is this some kind of joke? smirkymonkey Jun 2018 #24
I expected nothing less AlexSFCA Jun 2018 #26
I've never been a fan of how the federal ed dept operates, janx Jun 2018 #28
Sounds like Nasruddin Jun 2018 #31
Education as labor force training. Solly Mack Jun 2018 #32
Well said, the true purpose of education. appalachiablue Jun 2018 #34
Thank you, appalachiablue Solly Mack Jun 2018 #37
K&R - Solly, that was what formed me into a liberal thinker! KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2018 #36
Me, too. It's how I was taught. Solly Mack Jun 2018 #38
Something missing in this merger.... KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2018 #35
Right. Merge them and defund them both, killing two birds with one Republican stone. Nitram Jun 2018 #40
And that says much about how they see government... malthaussen Jun 2018 #41
Recycling Old Idea. Repubs first proposed it in 1995 onenote Jun 2018 #44
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