Anonymous Deweysh Bag advocates the global gulag:
This Vox character has a twisted, tweaked, and, militant understanding of “citizen.” He’s frightened (as he should be) that with a public school education, our nation’s young can not grow to become the Christian Right. The libertarians are just scary, and applying that economic philosophy means that no one ever has to learn anything that their parents don’t want them to learn.
I subscribe to John Deweys’s philosophy of education and believe that we have a responsibilty to educate our children to be knowledgeable citizens of the world with responsibilities and skills that allow them to participate in global discussions.
As usual, we have massive projection here. I’m not the least bit afraid of public school educations, I am simply completely contempteous of them precisely because I was public schooled for seven years. Clearly, I have firsthand knowledge of the fact that our nation’s young can and will grow to become the Christian Right regardless of how they are schooled. Totalitarians of ADB’s sort always think that they can brainwash and kill enough people to keep the masses in line; they never seem to grasp that their repression creates the very opposition it is designed to eliminate.
ADB then goes on to prove my point of the purpose of public education:
Here’s something I pulled off a website to outline the issues:
Understanding of a citizen’s responsibilities to others, to society and to the environment:
Understanding of ethical behavior in personal, professional and public life:
Knowledge and skills for involved responsible citizenship at the local, state, national and global level:
Don’t see a lot about reading, writing and arithmetic there, do you? Just a lot of propaganda about being a good little fascist worker-bee global citizen.