The point of education is to create a flourishing society in which as many people as possible have wonderful lives filled with freedom, happiness and fulfillment... Whatever the method, it needs the movement from memorization to learning how to think... It means teaching them to be conscious! Conscious! Conscious! Conscious!

Reichians, disciples of Mr. Spock and the Summerhill school, etc. have called attention, with some impatience, to the brutality and stupidity of many of our traditional child-rearing methods.These methods are "brutal" and "stupid" only if, like the above-mentioned heretics, one regards the goal of child-rearing as the production of a sane, balanced, creative [NOT CRATED] human being. THIS HAS NEVER BEEN THE GOAL OF ANY SOCIETY IN THE REAL WORLD. The traditional child-rearing methods are quite logical, pragmatic and sound in fulfilling the real purpose of society, which is not to create an ideal person, but to create [CRATE] a semi-robot who mimics the society as closely as possible - both in its rational and irrational aspects, both as repository of the wisdom of the past and as the sum totalof all cruelties and stupidities of the past. Very simply, a totally aware, alert, awakened (unbrainwashed) person would not fit very well into any of the standard roles society offers, the damaged, robotized products of traditional child-rearing do fit into those slots.

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I regained my faith in Australian democracy. Pope Rudd connected with God to glimpse into the future, and came back to invent emerging dangers. "As nations grow and become more affluent, they also update their military forces." So speaketh our elected prophet.

A typical aristotelian statement, a piece of Ruddian common sense. But then, an elected leader in a democrazy has to have clairvoyant powers, his disciples expect nothing less. And so the present does just not matter enough to act, the prophesied future demands all financial attention.

Unfortunately, yet typically, most visions of politico parasites appear dystopic, even paranoid. Seer Rudd spoke of water, energy and food shortages, unstable nations in the neighborhood, endangered sea transport. He could not imagine that human ingenuity has easily surpassed the expectations of most pessimists by far, especially in the 20th century. The information revolution has just started, and the increase in number of life supporting inventions still accelerates. Although too many people still live in misery most people in the western world enjoy a wealth not available to the regents 200 years ago.

Consequently, the OECD report that showed the second least spending for education amongst industrialised nations, causes no worries to the Chosen One. Rudd worries along this lines: Some Asian nation will overtake Australia economically, and then use this power to buy better military equipment. Their superior marine and fighter jets will easily take over Australia, public bbqs will be transformed into woks, street sign will show cryptic letters in Asian alphabets, innocent blond surfer girls will be raped by vicious Asian invaders.

So instead of fostering education, which could see the emergence of solutions for problems like sustainable use of water, energy and food, better cultural understanding to lower the probability of the barbaric policy of warfare, Kevin's friend in the military industrial complex redirect heaps of taxpayer's money into their pockets.

Without enlightened leaders like Kevin, who knows for sure that war will come Australia's way, subversive believers in democracy like me might suffer from the delusion that provision of public infrastructure, education and efficient health systems identify a healthy and wealthy nation.

Corporate Takeover Part 2



Julia Gillard, the o so empowered female Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, wants more performance checks for schools. "I think we need to understand in a much more sophisticated way what's going on in schools. And I think the more information that enables people to understand it in a sophisticated way, the better."

Performance checks have become the latest craze in corporate madness, yet not every interaction is quantifyable. Basic literacy and numeracy skills, subject to Julia's desire to measure more, should not take 10 years to teach. However, measuring performance of a poorly designed system does not yield any valuable information. The results can either confirm the bad state of the system (if students manage to leave school illiterate, it proves major deficiences) or even worse, they can show "that it's all not that bad".

Did we know more by counting dead birds after the Exxon Valdez accident? The low official body count in the Iraq war does not change the fact of an illegal invasion. Measuring does not always help to gather useful data, to the contrary. Scales for grown, yet undesigned system like the education system, can only be arbitrary. As long as the goals for education lack an agreed and reasonable definition, performance checks provide nothing.

The implementation of this splendid plan requires plenty of consulting and administration, another project to redistribute tax money in friend's pockets. How many education units does an average teacher successfully to her/his students? Can the students still be herded in bigger classes? How much mandatory donation can parents contribute?

Meanwhile, kids leave school that cannot read.