Mark Levin
has come up with one of his worst ideas yet:
Put cameras in all public school classrooms:
https://www.marklevinshow.com/2021/07/13/cameras-in-the-classroom/
This is
supposed to prevent teachers from indoctrinating students with false history,
dangerous ideologies, etc., but what it will end up doing is something just as
bad as any of those evils: making all
these students comfortable with the idea of a panopticon spying apparatus that
will surveille them at all times.
Indeed, Mr
Declan Leary, in his excellent piece on the pitfalls of mandatory public
education, indicates that public schools have always been nothing but factory
centers for the production of regimented, soulless worker drones:
Economically, the
transition was disastrous—not necessarily quantitatively speaking, but in terms
of proper economics: that is, the ordering of material conditions toward human
flourishing. Following the execution of a project whose professed goal was the
elevation of all to the condition worthy of citizens, human life and society
have only become more systematized, and power and wealth have concentrated in
the hands of a corrupt and entirely unaccountable few. It would, of course, be
incorrect to speak of forced education as the cause of this disorder; it is
merely a means for its preservation and a catalyst for its accelerated
progress.
One of the most
original and incisive critics of mandatory schooling was the Roman Catholic
priest and anarchish social philosopher Ivan
Illich. In some respects a perverse social liberal, Illich was in others a
trenchant and insightful prophet against modernity, especially concerning the dehumanizing
tendencies of modern institutions. A key aspect of Illich’s argument, first
laid out in Deschooling Society (1971) was
that the institutionalization of education aids in the institutionalization of
society writ large. From the age of five through at least the age of 16,
American children are systematically integrated into an order that is itself
always integrating further, always expanding the bounds of its control.
Progressivism, leftism, modernism—whatever word we use for it—begins in schools
not because teachers happen to be liberals, but because it is in the very
nature of education as we know it.
In addition to
being dehumanizing, totalizing, and unnatural—or perhaps as a result of
it—modern, institutionalized education cannot even be called a success
according to its own standards. A hundred odd years on, the experiment of
corralling children in the classroom is an obvious and abject failure.
Especially among demographics whom government-mandated and funded schooling is
most meant to aid, few positive results can be seen and a bevy of available
metrics indicate that forced schooling simply doesn’t work.
We have dumped billions of dollars, trillions of hours, and millions of
childhoods into a system that produces employees for Jeff Bezos and voters for
Joe Biden who, if they are lucky, can at least do long division.
--https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/let-the-children-work/
Mr Levin’s camera
proposal only exacerbates these problems.
And a further thought: How is
inuring millions of children to constant, universal surveillance not a gigantic
step towards the ‘American Marxism’ Mr Levin has been railing against lately?
He is
profoundly wrong in his prescription for ‘fixing’ American education. Mr Leary’s solution is far superior: Scrap mandatory schooling altogether and
replace it with apprenticeships. Please
read his whole essay; it is worth the few minutes it will take to do so.
And, please,
Mr Levin, ‘Leave them kids alone!’ (Pink
Floyd)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5ApYxkU-U
--
Holy Ælfred
the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to
the Union!
