His name will endure through the ages, and so also will his work.
-Friedrich Engels
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Can’t find the Marx quote in the image attributable to him.
Did I miss something or was Abraham Lincoln right when he said “Don’t believe everything you read on the internet”. I appreciate the sentiment, but still.
This is part of the general message in the Communist Manifesto
Not a quote. Don’t sell it as a quote. Something something Marx valued education something…
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Manifesto_of_the_Communist_Party
Everyone goes to school. Still 90% idiots.
Education isnt confined to school.
There’s no school harder than the School of hard knocks.
- ghandi, probably
Sure, but if you don’t even go to school you’re way more vulnerable to cult thinking (like maga or just the status quo).
Gotta start somewhere, and as they say, you can lead a horse to the water bucket, but you can’t force him to drink.
On the one hand, “think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of them are dumber than that.”
On the other hand, an educational system that was designed scientifically with data-driven best practices and not just what a bunch of fundamentalists in Texas think we should teach would also improve things greatly. As would, of course, strengthening the DoE and allocating DoD’s budget to education and infrastructure.
DoE isn’t gonna teach independent thought, the right to question everything including authority. Capitalist education will always lead to compliance, and doing your part to maintain capitalist hegemony
I mean obviously I want my anarchist alternative but I dont see it anywhere, do you?
My perspective isn’t from the american view where home schooling is not frowned upon, but from scandinavian and french school systems. They both have their ups and downs but no one “plead allegiance” or whatever in normal schools here (they have sort of religious classes in religious schools here in france so they might pledge allegiance to jesus or something).
In France they actually require critical thinking(with sources and argumentation, they even have rhetoric “competitions”) and working together.
On a side note, it would be so nice if people could tell which viewpoint they have, like [us] or [fr] etc. Discussions would be more interesting IMO.
