it's a fair question and one that's hard to pin down in terms of an absolute answer. school was once about learning to read and write and multiply and not much else, at least in much of the US. it never really became the vehicle of indoctrination that folks like bismark wanted thought FDR gave it a good try in the 30's. we had a sort …
it's a fair question and one that's hard to pin down in terms of an absolute answer. school was once about learning to read and write and multiply and not much else, at least in much of the US. it never really became the vehicle of indoctrination that folks like bismark wanted thought FDR gave it a good try in the 30's. we had a sort of heyday form the the late 40's to the 90's that, interestingly, seemed to start to lose ground when the soviet union fell. i suspect having them as a foe did the US a lot of good in terms of preventing marxist drift in institutions.
I hear you. As I look back at my words, I think I used, "always seemed..." when I could have used "drifted away from basic skills development..." FTR, Marxism sucks.
it's a fair question and one that's hard to pin down in terms of an absolute answer. school was once about learning to read and write and multiply and not much else, at least in much of the US. it never really became the vehicle of indoctrination that folks like bismark wanted thought FDR gave it a good try in the 30's. we had a sort of heyday form the the late 40's to the 90's that, interestingly, seemed to start to lose ground when the soviet union fell. i suspect having them as a foe did the US a lot of good in terms of preventing marxist drift in institutions.
I hear you. As I look back at my words, I think I used, "always seemed..." when I could have used "drifted away from basic skills development..." FTR, Marxism sucks.