I remember John Taylor Gatto saying that the class curriculum in his public school in the 1940s in grade 7 had him reading an english translation of Julius Caesar's writings on the Gallic Wars and in grade 8, he had the option, which he took, of reading it in Latin.
Yes, but most people dropped out back then. The general public was dumb as nails. And the ones that stayed in weren't much better - being brain-washed by the group-think of those those continued in their studies (or radicalized if disagreeing with the "group").
You certainly didn't need much education to work on the farm or a repetitive factory back then, so there were those who only finished grade 8.
It was very much the Prussian educational system then, even if the remaining students were being taught how to divide and conquer the opposition by reading those writings, and killed creativity.
Steve Jobs alludes to that in an interview, how it would've rendered him uncreative if he had never bucked the system when he was young, and that was the intent of that system.
It is a really great system for an ethnically homogeneous country that wants to be a military and industrial powerhouse, and that's why it still works so well in some Asian countries and not multiracial and post-industrial U.S.
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I remember John Taylor Gatto saying that the class curriculum in his public school in the 1940s in grade 7 had him reading an english translation of Julius Caesar's writings on the Gallic Wars and in grade 8, he had the option, which he took, of reading it in Latin.
Yes, but most people dropped out back then. The general public was dumb as nails. And the ones that stayed in weren't much better - being brain-washed by the group-think of those those continued in their studies (or radicalized if disagreeing with the "group").
You certainly didn't need much education to work on the farm or a repetitive factory back then, so there were those who only finished grade 8.
It was very much the Prussian educational system then, even if the remaining students were being taught how to divide and conquer the opposition by reading those writings, and killed creativity.
Steve Jobs alludes to that in an interview, how it would've rendered him uncreative if he had never bucked the system when he was young, and that was the intent of that system.
It is a really great system for an ethnically homogeneous country that wants to be a military and industrial powerhouse, and that's why it still works so well in some Asian countries and not multiracial and post-industrial U.S.
We need to teach children the greek classics, trivium and quadrivium.
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