Due to an unexplained lag in my schoolwork, I'm going to take advantage of the time and write a blog post. Now I would like to upload pictures and do a post about some strange adventure that happened in Europe buuuuuuutttt the camera isn't wanting to coraporate. Having an absence of things to blog about I shall use Plinky.
The question for today, "If you were the president of the United States what would be your #1 priority?
Education
The most prevalent problem with the United States is that the up and coming generation can only think when things benefit themselves, party unity is based on what can benefit the individual, no one is willing to sacrifice for their country.
I'd hope to use education to change that. Give people a purpose, make America a nation to be proud of, inspire a national pride and all that. To do this I'd teach about America, its past its present and potential. I'd use the logic and wisdom of the sages from all ages to mold a generation who could be self controlled for a greater end. I'd create an enlightened people that would never allow the government that was created for them to be turned into an instrument of tyranny.
This education would be founded on these principles
Nothing helpful comes without hard work
Things naturally fall into chaos
For you live in excess someone else must live in poverty
Proving and engraining these three basic principles into kids would be the essence of the education. Rounding out these principles with the teacings of various school masters from history would be the curriculum. Once they were willing to believe and apply these principles, then I'd allow each kid to pursue a choice of work/study with classes that would teach him everything about that specific topic. Forget this silly idea of having kids know a little bit of everything, lets get them really good in one thing.
Yeah education we ourselves can take the cue from history and note that the most vile and evil tyrants were able to stay in power because they were able to change the educational system in their favor, for America to become proud again it must start empowering its citizens to beleive in its greatness and to have its citizens desire that greatness to increase so much that their willing to sacrifice for it. All through the process of education.
I'm Caleb Lagan and I approve of Plinky, it worked pretty well.
yes. let us all teach our children that no matter what they do the world will fall to chaos and there is not hope for simplicity. great plan. honestly that would just give them a poor work ethic. if they do anything it will cause chaos so why do anything?
ReplyDeleteon the contrary, knowing that the systems feeding,, supporting and providing for you are sooner or later going to disappear would encourage students to trust in something that will last longer themselves, the government. It will encourage a society dependant on the government, if this were to happen people would no longer simply try to steal as much as they can from the government, they'd have a vested interest in keeping the government alive because its one of the few things that can outlast the individual.
ReplyDeleteQuestion 1. What does Plinky mean?
ReplyDeleteQuestion 2. Your main points about education are summed up with this portion:
"Nothing helpful comes without hard work
Things naturally fall into chaos
For you live in excess someone else must live in poverty"
I understand (and agree with) the first two points. But what does the third one mean? My brain went on "red alert" (my built-in Communist detector). But I know you aren't a Communist because 1 I know who you are and 2 the rest of your post isn't Communist at all. In fact it sounds a lot like what I want America to be. So what does it mean?
And I totally agree with your point that people need purpose, a reason to exist and keep pushing on.