Education – Young Daffwold's Almanack

This video is part of the section of my “9 Point Agenda For Counter-Revolution” which proposes that we Change Our Direction.

More information on the “9 Point agenda for Counter-Revolution”

Education is a primary function of democratic government.

First because it is a human right, and governments job is to secure human rights.
But also because an informed and educated citizenry is a necessary condition of democracy.

And, because government has a responsibility to manage the economy, and as technology evolves, the economy requires an ever more well-educated workforce.

This education must the universal,
it must be high quality,
and it must be integrated.

Young americans should be encountering people from all segments of our society and beyond. This is necessary to build a democratic society which minimizes racism, xenophobia and class hatred.

Before Ronnie Rodeo's Reactionary Rapepublican Revolution, we were moving in the right direction.
Education was free for all in the first 12 grades and inexpensive colleges and universities were available to most.

The quality of education for the majority of American citizens was improving greatly and our schools were becoming more integrated at every level.

The education system here in the United States was the envy of the world. Other countries sent their brightest students here to be educated; and emulated our system when designing their own.

This is no longer true. Our education system is bad and getting worse.

How could this come about?

Before Ronnie Rodeo's Reactionary Rapepublican Revolution, our government emphasized expanding human rights and the need to develop the potential of each human being.
We believed in investment in human development and funding the future of this great people.

But Ronnie Rodeo introduced a contrasting set of values.
For the last 40 years the emphasis has been on diverging funds from human development to subsidize corporations and aristocracies.

There is been a change in focus from improving human minds to controlling human behavior.

Federal funds are being diverted from public education to private schools for the purpose of enriching corporations and aristocracies,
and also to divide society, creating unequal opportunity and animosity within the citizenry.

The planning time frame of our government has been dramatically reduced from multi generational human improvement to short-term economic growth.

Now it seems like every time I talk about Ronnie Rodeo's Reactionary Rapepublican Revolution the discussion boils down to "we changed the direction and started going the wrong way".
But that does pretty much sum it up.

It's time for counterrevolution. The education system in the United States is going in the wrong direction and we have to reverse it.

We need to fund it, fix it, and make it fair.

First we have to fund it.
Privatization is a waste of money.
Education is primarily the job of government.
And although much of the control and management of the school system should remain local, the only way we can fairly and adequately fund our education system is by using federal dollars.

The present system of local funding, usually using property tax, not only leads to unequal education but increased geographic segregation.

And we need to invest in our educators.
One of the most important jobs in our society requires the very best, brightest and most dedicated practitioners.
We need to restore the high status teachers once held within our society and reinforce it with high pay and high quality training.

Education must be free, and all students must be able to acquire as much education as they need to pursue their dreams.

We need to invest in our future. We need to invest in our democracy.

In addition to funding it we need to fix it, and make it fair.

To fix it we need to re-examine the purposes of education.
Our system needs to:
produce informed and curious citizens of our democracy,
prepare young people to be productive in our economy,
develop each individual's personal and artistic communication and expression,
and encourage entrepreneurial genius.

To do this we need to train our children and youth to:
Collect, Connect, and Communicate.

* Train the senses to Collect raw data and ideas from other humans, past and present.
* Train the brain to Connect ideas and observations in the process of building its own special way of looking at the world.
* And help each student to develop Communication skills so as to share her or his unique ideas with others.

Education starts at birth.
Our government needs to assist new parents attempting to provide an rich environment for infants in the home,
often while balancing two or more jobs between them.
And of course daycare must be free for all.
Daycare which is not warehousing, but the first stages of education.

We need to fund it, we need to fix it, we also need to make it fair.

Although for the most part equal dollars should be spent for each student, provisions must be made for special needs students.
And I also believe that funding should be 15% higher for each student below the poverty level.

Schools must be required to employ any practical means to maximize integration,
racial, ethnic, economic, religious,
and anything I may have neglected to list.
Our democracy requires it.

America is only great if the American people are great.
The most important single initiative for making Americans rate is to fully fund our education system, fix it, and make it fair.

This is not the only video in which I discuss education. I would especially refer you to my video on "funding the future", which is part of my nine point agenda for counterrevolution.