Brick-and-mortar universities have become places to go to be protected from new ideas and narrow prospectives, but the End of Academia may mean the beginning of Education.
Brick-and-mortar universities have become places to go to be protected from new ideas and narrow prospectives, but the End of Academia may mean the beginning of Education.
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To the University: good riddance. I have seen more lives destroyed by “the University Experience” than perhaps anything else. Yes! That’s a first-world problem, but it is pernicious and deadly.
Education Agenda:
In the 1930’s the Carnegie Foundation put a strategy in place to undermine the United States as a sovereign nation. Carnegie established the Foundation to promote the Europeanization of America under the mask of universal peace. This movement calls for a World State.
In 1954 Ford Foundation president Rowan Gaither gave a report that stated that the first area recommended for foundation action was “world peace and the establishment of a world order of law and justice.” Gaither also said his directives were to use grant making powers to alter life in the United States so that it could comfortably be merged with the Soviet Union.
Carnegie Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation pooled their financial resources to control education in America –particularly to control the teaching of history. These foundations created their own stable of historians to create history by conditioning future generations to accept collectivism as desirable and inevitable. The mandate of this group of historians was “not to write past history objectively but to present it in such a way as to create attitudes so as to influence future history.” G Edward Griffin
The birth of progressive education and the concept of using education for social engineering did not originate at Carnegie. Johann Gottlieb Fitche the father of German nationalism was actually the man who provided the idea back in the 1700’s. He said: “Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished … The socialpsychologistof the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.”
Principles of Progressive education are to de-emphasize academic excellence in favor of awareness of political and social issues.
1. National sovereignty is the cause of war and must be replaced by world government.
2. Personal property must be eliminated because it leads to selfishness.
3. People will not assist or cooperate with each other in freedom so they must be forced to do so by the state.
Carnegie and Rockefeller foundations continue this ideological subversion, demoralization and denationalization to this day. Joined by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and billionaires William Buffet, George Soros and George Lucas, they continue to advance the collective agenda. In fact Gates Foundation has now teamed with the Carnegie Foundation and Planned Parenthood to advance Innovating to Zero, and other radical plans of social planning and control.
In these groups you have true believers and you have the financial parasites.
Given the moral climate and the lack of boundaries created by our modern world, these parasites have been allowed to flourish. Political correctness, moral imperatives, race baiting, and other techniques are used to keep the public at bay.
ARRA- The American Recovery and Investment Act of 2009 (Obama stimulus package) paved the way for the Department of Education (ED) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to build the foundation for the New World Order.
Billion-dollar funding in the form of grants has made it possible for ED and HHS to circumvent the Congressional funding process. ED has been able to directly fund the development of Common Core Curriculum and restructure the education system without true input from the states. HHS used grant funding to establish groundwork for the Patient Protection and Affordability Act, such as electronic medical records and research on PPACA base programs.
Both agencies have used the stimulus package to build data mining systems. They have used vast grant monies to foster complicity with states and individuals.
The goal of these programs is to exact as much information as possible from the American people. This information will be used to decide which members of society will be allowed to thrive, and which are dispensable. Children will be evaluated to determine their civic role in society, any potential leadership capabilities, and the appropriate educational pathway.
Information is required in order to control. Indoctrination through the education system is seen as the key to creating compliance with the collective system.
People can search online, garner information for a paper, cut and paste, turn the paper in and then get their grade. 10 minutes later they have completely forgotten what they wrote.
I’ll tell you one college that I’m highly impressed with and that is Hillsdale. I’ve take a few of their free online course that have proved to be informative and edifying.
I agree with Bill completely about the demise of “Brick and Mortar” institutions, particularly the ones that receive government “handouts,” they are useless.
The “I can Google that” issue illustrates the difference between information and knowledge.
Information is the individual dots in a picture, knowledge is how to connect the dots.
Thomas Sowell has pointed out that the web of knowledge provides structure that is much larger in scope than the individual dots connected by the web.
Being a retired skilled tradesman who has taught his trade to many young apprentices, I find teaching to be a fulfilling endeavor, however the student has to have the desire to learn and put in the hard work required to become skilled. I’ve found too many students that only put in the minimal effort and didn’t really care to do the necessary work. They were a waste of my time and the company’s money. This problem has increased in later years the closer I got to retirement to the point where the company and the State dropped the program. Accredited trade schools require tuition and passing grades as do Universities, but are having enrollment problems as well.
We cannot build a strong American workforce when the young are not interested in putting in the effort required to establish their own future well being. The military is only taking the best of the best anymore and only those young people who will do their best will succeed to become worthwhile citizens.
What do we do with the rest that just don’t care? We can’t afford to feed them forever. They are going to have to step up to the plate or die.
Looking from far awayt is baffling. When the marked is so messed up, creating some hardcore schools that promise to have high standards on requirement and no way issuing diploma to coasters should have a good edge on a market filled with almost only diploma mills. It takes a few years to ramp up the reputation but should fly from there till the balance swings back to at least neutral.
Yeah, if you teach the youth that being lazy is virtue and temper tantrum leads to getting you the stuff instead of just loath and a spanking that’s what you get, but a number of people still look look for the old style things.
I got my BA in 1969 and my MRE in 1976 (Army, etc. in between) and I’m currently a very healthy 72. My wife was a research librarian, but at this point has Parkinson’s Disease. That said, I’m going to run the “index card” idea past her, and anything we come up with will be posted.
Prayers for you and your wife.
Khan academy does some of what Bill is asking for. Curiosity stream does some. However Bill has a point if you are not taught where to start Wikipedia is a maze. Its also wrong on some issues because its edited & congealed group think. I think the last thing to go in universities are the labs: Physics, Chemistry, biology & engineering testing. They are much more about safety than just teaching. You can teach all 4 on a kitchen table or back paddock and stream it on YouTube but your not safe. In Russia in the Yeltsin years they were rented out. A lot of interesting and a lot of spurious work got done.
Khan Academy is wholly in the pocket of people like Bill and Melinda Gates and the Common Core program of anti-White, anti-western Culture; it was formulated from the Carnegie idea of control education, control individuals
So. Many. Ideas.
I’ve been planning to create a web site, name as yet undetermined but I might ask Bill for permission to call it MB2A.org, to host, to begin with, my Declaration of Sovereignty and related stuff I’m still working on. I can see it becoming an information hub for a lot of what the MB2A movement will do.
One of those things could be an education section where these “curated courses” would be housed. Another could be a “members” section to share info, events, and (real) news. (Yes, we do that here but a space dedicated to the movement would probably be a good thing.) I’m sure others will come up with other good subsections.
Frankly, I’d be quite good at setting policy for the site and high-level managing it. More detailed parts could be handled by people interested in specific aspects of MB2A. For education, for example, we’ll need experts in the fields we’re going to create courses for. I’d like to develop a comprehensive, online education that covers preschool to the highest reaches of every subject. For example, we could produce top-notch astrophysicists. And expert plumbers. And excellent accountants. And the best of every other profession and job.
Big goal, yes, but why aim low?
(I’m a retired, fairly old guy, like Bill mentioned. I have nothing but time on my hands.)
If you have the time on your hand, absolutely do it. Though before discovering warm water look around what is already done in the direction. I.e Mike Rowe made plenty of progress on the “academia” direction iirc.
Ok, my last thought on this great MB2A by Bill. I am nearing the end of my career. 45 years in the same biz, working my way up, up, up. Hard work, sometimes stressful work. Always rewarding work though. And through the years, it’s been really really successful.
I have had the fun honor to walk into a couple of middle schools and high schools and talk to students about what I do, how I started in the biz and how to get ahead in business and prosper.
About 8 years ago, at a high school near my home, my presentation was so well received. Teachers, admin, and students had a blast. while learning about many aspects of their favorite subject – skateboarding. I had a blast doing the presentation as well. The students, about 75 of them., hand picked by 3 teachers who described these kids as, well, as “not the ones heading to Stanford or UCLA”. The teachers saw my video on the educational series the Futures Channel, and asked me to show kids how a skateboard is made, what it takes to do it, what math, science and engineering skills are required to grow in such a business, as well as all the myriad of jobs available in a company like mine, from accounting to sales to production and warehousing/logistics. The presentation ran long, and the kids wouldn’t stop asking questions, good questions, so the teachers let it roll.
Then in 2019, I did it again, but this time I was part of a non profit annual presentation called Your Future is Our Business, and it was a career day with at least 50 professionals from lawyers to doctors to fire and police and everything in between. I tried to give the same presentation. But this time, I was just assigned to 1 random class filled with kids ranging from just before drop outs to Stanford bound. I don’t know what happened in the 7 year span, but not one kid gave a rats ass about the presentation. Eye rollling, distant stares, talking, no one gave a crap. Like they were being held against their will. I walked away from that high school, located in probably the wealthiest areas of the county, saying to myself “we are doomed”.
Phones, instagram, tic tok, snapchat, FB, Youtube, gaming?…I don’t know what happened, but gotta say SOMETHING happened to these kids. I was not alone. On the way out, so many others in varying professions were saying the same thing. One Highway patrolman said it was like invasion of the body snatchers. Only we were presenting to the Pod Kids, not real kids.
Sad to say, and sorry for the long rant, but…if education is to succeed, it has to come from thoughtful and caring parents first. A curiosity and interest in learning new things has to start early, and that is the job of parents. Whatever type of education system we devise here, it can’t start in the high school level, it’s got to be elementary school, or early middle school at the latest.
I just hope we’re not doomed.
We are not doomed, we are just temporarily snake bit.
I bet if you gave the same presentation from 8 years ago, split into 10-15 minutes segments and posted it on YT, you’d get a great response from these same kids. We struggle at church on how to reach kids now as opposed to 6-10 years ago. Gotta go where they are and they are on the net. A few times a year we take them someplace and detox. from technology.
This all goes in cycles. I remember my dad bemoaning the “idiot box” I spent so much of my time watching. Now it’s “the internet” SSDD.
Now we need to overcome the indoctrination more than the medium.
What you’re looking for is called the Socratic Method. Leaders/Teachers ask questions and send students in search of answers. The best leaders/teachers are those who ask the best questions in the correct order. The Internet is the perfect vehicle for students to seek and find answers and then engage in intelligent debate/conversation…
I think we will find the internet, as a whole, will become more and more controlled and censored. Answers to questions not approved will soon no longer exist. Chine paid Google to assist them in censoring the internet access of a couple billion people. The education was for Google, not China. Now they are using it on the planet.
Putting together playlists and/or web page lists on different subjects is a wonderful idea… The QUESTION is… How do we get young people to ENGAGE and take advantage of these resources?
This one touched me in so many ways. I retired as a SNCO after 20 because I couldn’t take the Obama military anymore. Discipline became a joke and was impossible to maintain. Next time you hear someone was removed because of a “toxic work environment”, understand that really means millennials couldn’t handle responsibility and complained to the IG.
As someone mentioned below, I went back to college to finish my degree in a job I’d been doing for decades. I enrolled in a Christian College and was immediately shocked at how liberal the classes were. One professor introduced himself as 30% slave.
I despair for this country. These podcasts are one of the only glimpses of hope I get. Thank you Bill.
A cooperative of mentors, background checked, thoroughly vetted, teaching along guidelines but not bound by the straight jacket of public school managerial menace. These mentors could be training young people in trades as well as history, science, literature, and philosophy.
As a “mentorship” the rules and standards are not the same as public or private schools but could bring on many of the same opportunities for the young people.
Because it is a cooperative training and learning supplies would be less expensive, legal advice could be cheaper for each individual and access could be more broadly dispersed to members and member communities.
Simple things like first aid, CPR, and using fire extinguishers could be the beginning, to teach individual ability and responsibility. Constitutional familiarization could be the next phase to strengthen individual liberty. A broad range of trade and professional training could follow to strengthen competition and individual achievement. Economics and finance could be taught…or examined…to foster financial success.
Communities could build their own cooperatives so the targets are many and tight knit or they could be regional and strong bodies of patriotic people that become very difficult targets to legally dissolve.
In any case, we need responsible adults teaching young people to become responsible adults.
Bill agonizes that he can’t come up with some way to replace the socialization and camaraderie that can be experienced by young people in the hallowed halls of academia once their august institutions collapse under their own pathological bloat. I can. It’s called the military.
College for me was never a social experience. When I wasn’t in class, or in labs, or in the library doing research (or rarely, asleep), I was working one of a myriad of generally awful part time jobs that paid for my tuition, books, fees, rent or food. I ran out of money and motivation at about the same time and volunteered for the Army to qualify for the GI Bill. I learned more about myself, the world and humanity in the Army than I ever would have in college, and made friends with whom I am still in contact, over 40 years later. I graduated wiser, debt free and far better educated as a result.
I think 2 years mandatory active military service with a four year reserve commitment for everyone coming out of high school would go a long way toward solving many of our current problems.
I worked through college as well, part time at first, full time at the end. I still really enjoyed the camaraderie and social experience, and I was a commuter. Hanging on the quad under the tree in front of Murray Hall, talking politics, current events, girls, what have you. Blowing off some of the easier classes to have these discussions, and letting the professors know. Inviting them to join. And I am generally an introvert. Still, it was an important part of the experience. I was actually a little disappointed when I brought my daughter for a tour of my alma mater, and noticed the tree was gone. (She ended up going there anyway, tree or no tree.)
No matter how good the US military is, when you get right down to it, it is just another government run program. Consider how much corruption is being exposed every day regarding the government. Forcing people to serve the State under threat of pain feeds the monster, it does not correct the problems.
I’m a new member here in Dallas TX. I consider it my first step in joining the fight againat leftist tyrany – No longer on the sidelines. Thank you for the awesome content you and your crew produce.
Conversation I hope to see happen in the near future…..
Bill W: Hey David, it’s me Bill. You know the piece you wrote, the one where I made a video on your research called “Eat the Rich”?
David B (Iowahawk): Hi Bill, yeah I remember that one. Great video on that by the way, lots of eyeballs on Eat the Rich. Thanks for the hat tip. What’s up?
Bill W: Well, one of the members at my site BillWhittleDotCom, his name is entirely unimportant, but his idea was interesting. This member really wants to “opt out” of any increased taxation from the Harris administration when she absolves all student debt accrued for all students over the last 25 years. The dollar amount is staggering I’m sure, but member T…uh, I actually forgot his name…hey, he’s one of my many many thousands of members so you can forgive me…he wanted me to ask you if you could work your satirical math magic to arrive at a figure which he can subtract from his IRS bill. A figure that would be his share of the mega student debt fogiveness bomb President Kamala is about to drop on all Americans.
You think you could do that for me, Buddy?
David B (Iowahawk): For you, Bill? Sure, I’ll take a moment out of my day of gapping sparkplugs to come up with an amount member T….uh, some member of yours…was asking for. Hell, maybe it might become a movement.
I’ll get back to you tomorrow.
Tim P: Student debt forgiveness. That will be the end of academia. I’d rather go to debtor’s prison, Hell, or Venezuela than pay more in taxes to cover the educations of stupid humans who made some very very bad choices of borrowing money to pay universities to not educate but indoctrinate.
Great song by Krokus, an 80’s hairband called “Eat The Rich.”
There’s also an army of Winston Smiths out there changing history in real time in ways large and small. I heard Winter Wonderland in the supermarket and noticed that ‘Parson Brown’ has been turned into ‘a perfect clown’
If it’s the Johnny Mathis version, it was edited to say “Circus Clown”. Pathetic.
The first time Mathis sings that verse it’s Parson Brown then the second time it’s circus clown. The lines that follows each are different, too:
In the meadow we can build a snowman
1st:
Then pretend the he is Parson Brown.
He’ll say, “Are you married?” We’ll say, “No, man.
But you can do the job when you’re in town!”
2nd:
And pretend that he’s a circus clown.
We’ll have lots of fun with Mr Snowman
Until the other kiddies knock him down!
Dude…just Dude….nailed it!
Sorry , I’ve must have gone Emily Litella
Never, EVER, go full Emily Litella!
All true and all good, but the REAL “devil in the details” re. academia’s demise is that, aside from being a propagandizing tool, academia is a CREDENTIALING tool for many occupations, big and small companies, etc. etc. It has become the way the lazy world of HR weeds out candidates for jobs and of course how licensed professions (too many, btw) winnow their ranks and remain high-priced and scarce. We have to solve that credentialing issue because all of the great internet learning in the world won’t solve it, alas, by itself. No idea how to solve this, so please address it in future installments.
Just a thought. An ‘enterprising’ sort might start a credentialing website which you could sign up online, pay online, but travel to a location to take a series of tests in person. Part of the beauty is that you can pick a series of tests in your field of study. Mechanical Engineering. Agriculture. Electronic Engineering, Business Administration, Finance, Marketing….oh..forget that last one…. Your first test determines one of your strongest intelligences – auditory, visual, kinesthetic, etc and then following tests are tailored to present and take advantage of your key intelligence factors. Pass the test, get a certificate stating your level of expertise in your field of study.
Test results can’t be faked due to the need to ‘stand and deliver’ in a central test location staffed by professionals other than Lori Laughlin and Felicity Huffman.
It’s probably been done already. Kahn Academy?
You really hit the nail on the head. How to ask a question. Around 15 years ago my friend told me ‘to Google it’. My point being I couldn’t think of the question to ask to find what I was looking for.
What about our public libraries, are they infected with this leftist bullshit yet? At least that’s one place that they haven’t overwhelmed yet, right?
Give it time….through digitization of all the libraries and thee continued reduction of real, hold in your hands books, our history will bee changed forever and censorship will reign. Many books you download from AMZN for example, have automatic updates to the digital copies that downloads into your Kindle Cloud Reader and that reader sync with your off-line version as soon as you come online – Unless you find and manually select preferences to prevent this from happening and even then, those are vulnerable to be reset. All books you buy from this moment forward should be those you want to own and hand down to your family in hardback, best most authentic versions you can find. Locate good used bookstores as soon as you can as these will become a distant memory in the future as they contain real history and information.
I have never had one of those devices that you mentioned or bought any digital books, never have and never will. I like to buy and read the real thing at real book stores. Most of them are paperback versions, but I have bought a few hardcover editions. They cost a lot more this way, but I prefer to hold the book in my hands and look at them in my bookcases.
Excellent ;)…this appreciation is becoming a lot art…”to hold in my hands” something solid, meaningful, real…
Bill, I think this type of education would be great!
I would suggest a preview of the material to make sure it’s free of radical ideology.
As universities die, the same far left professors will be (and are) spewing their “message” online.
Groups of homeschool parents taking kids to museums, discovery centers, historical places, etc. Or classes at those places. (Assuming we stop allowing lockdowns.) Good way to be out with others their own age, interact, etc.
Vocational or trade schools for important skills that everyone needs. If your child wants to go to a university, have them pay their own way and don’t sign any student loans for them.
I think the big thing we can do is break the chain of indoctrination and brainwashing.
Take kids out of public school and put them in charter or homeschool. May take a hit on income, but what’s most important? The children.
Don’t allow endless hours of MSM, TV, or social media. Limit their smartphone use! Put monitors on their phone and limit what they can do on them.
Going to public school has more risks than most people know. Just some thoughts.
A problem may be that access to the Internet is controlled by those most threatened by Bill’s suggestions.
Already some information is no longer available on the Internet; our minders have deemed it too whatever to exist so it doesn’t. One can’t create a study series without information and in today’s world that information exists in only one place; and that place is controlled by our enemies.
The Internet itself was created and paid for by the taxpayers. It is the “service providers”, search engines, and video platforms (some) that misuse and censor.
Another reason why Sec. 230 needs to be revamped and said “platforms” be deemed “publishers” to make them liable for content on their platform since they are acting like a free speech platform, but censoring like a publisher.
Great reminder and summary!
Even a dim bulb like AOC can shine light on a fact that has been over looked. To paraphrase her bable at a congressional hearing on equity, diversity, bla.bla.bla “A lot of universitie’s R&D is funded with taxpayer money, that means we are investors, and shareholders in the technology created by these universities. As tax paying Americans, we share the risk in that investment, therefore, we should also share in the profits.” I would be in favor of that type of reparations. I want my Reps.