The Educational Industrial Complex
President Eisenhower famously warned us about the dangers of the Military industrial Complex. Prior to that, General Smedley Butler opined a similar warning, as well as numerous others.
Is there any similar eerie toll currently forewarning us all to the malignant injection of capitalism which is building leviathan like crisis to our education system to a level from which we may not be able to recover.
While this burgeoning national apocalypse looms, far too many of us reflexively knee-jerk our selves right back into our self incarcerating political boxes where we are easily managed and led by As Yeats called them “The worst (who) are full of passionate intensity."
Capitalism should only play the most miniscule part in the education of our young people. However as it stands currently, there seems to be more concern for the money students bring in than cultivating their young minds.
This problem should galvanize the nation into a NASA like focus. Instead, we’re so myopic in our public vision and so off-base in what our goals are, we actually aid the problem.
Is there any similar eerie toll currently forewarning us all to the malignant injection of capitalism which is building leviathan like crisis to our education system to a level from which we may not be able to recover.
While this burgeoning national apocalypse looms, far too many of us reflexively knee-jerk our selves right back into our self incarcerating political boxes where we are easily managed and led by As Yeats called them “The worst (who) are full of passionate intensity."
Capitalism should only play the most miniscule part in the education of our young people. However as it stands currently, there seems to be more concern for the money students bring in than cultivating their young minds.
This problem should galvanize the nation into a NASA like focus. Instead, we’re so myopic in our public vision and so off-base in what our goals are, we actually aid the problem.
