Comments on: The War Against the Imagination https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2014/02/22/the-war-against-the-imagination/ NoMoreFakeNews.com Fri, 04 Apr 2014 13:08:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.10 By: The War Against the Imagination https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2014/02/22/the-war-against-the-imagination/#comment-7358 Fri, 04 Apr 2014 13:08:43 +0000 http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=5581#comment-7358 […] Source: Jon Rappoport’s Blog […]

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By: Vanmind https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2014/02/22/the-war-against-the-imagination/#comment-7357 Tue, 04 Mar 2014 00:07:58 +0000 http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=5581#comment-7357 School = Prison is a misguided assertion.

Being sent to school is more like being inducted into the military. Indeed, that’s exactly what those old Prussians wanted, a system that trained children for future roles as warriors for the State. Dressed in their Teufelsdrockh-finest, graduates get to feed Leviathan and then die.

School doesn’t represent a punishment. Similarly, prisons don’t let convicts go home at the end of the day.

“Education: Free & Compulsory” by Murray Rothbard. If you think schools are prisons, the man himself is ready to teach you better.

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By: The War Against the Imagination | Flying Tiger Comics https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2014/02/22/the-war-against-the-imagination/#comment-7356 Thu, 27 Feb 2014 05:09:46 +0000 http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=5581#comment-7356 […] The War Against the Imagination. […]

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By: theVerge-again https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2014/02/22/the-war-against-the-imagination/#comment-7355 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 18:57:58 +0000 http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=5581#comment-7355 hi again.

Mr. Guffey lists three of some of the most relevant books written for our time, which were required reading when i was in high school. And now, they are “threatening” to english departments in university? Ha ha. If that’s not deliberate dumbing down, i don’t know what is. Would any of us be surprised?

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By: theVerge https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2014/02/22/the-war-against-the-imagination/#comment-7354 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 18:30:19 +0000 http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=5581#comment-7354 It is also the physical strain of mental exhaustion of ‘edjication’ that promotes the lethargy of pupils through it all. The hours and hours and hours of strain exerted to train their brains to accept all the shiite being systematically pumped into their eyes and ears is almost Olympian in it’s feat. From kindergarten beyond. It’s incredible.

Much gets lost during the whole process that can rarely be recovered, especially originality.

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By: The War Against the Imagination: How to Teach in a System Designed to Fail | Beat the rich https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2014/02/22/the-war-against-the-imagination/#comment-7353 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 19:01:07 +0000 http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=5581#comment-7353 […] There has been much talk lately about the worthless quagmire into which the American educational system has hopelessly sunk. I’ve been teaching English composition at CSU Long Beach for over ten years, and have never seen more hostility directed towards the field of education than now. A recent documentary, The War on Kids directed by Cevin Soling, takes the American educational system to task for all its numerous failings and compares public schools to prisons. This attitude reflects the feelings of many students, and not just high school students. I see a great deal of resistance …read more […]

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By: Chris Paquette https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2014/02/22/the-war-against-the-imagination/#comment-7352 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:21:15 +0000 http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=5581#comment-7352 Leave them kids alone guffey!

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By: White Raven https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2014/02/22/the-war-against-the-imagination/#comment-7351 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 06:30:25 +0000 http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=5581#comment-7351 This essay struck many resonant chords with me, and echoes many of the themes I’ve been expressing for decades, certainly since my late teens. It pained me seriously, and still does, to see the vast wasted potential of human beings of all ages and circumstances, to see their idealism and individuality washed out of them – to see the potent human creative spirit dulled by monotony and lies and false dichotomies.

I do believe that art, and music, and creative writing can all help break through this sick insistence on “right answers.” Having to fit their multidimensional souls into an incredibly limited, powerless and weak expression of humanity as pushed by the schools and the media, is something that quite naturally sickens people and makes them physically, emotionally, intellectually and spiritually ill.

And yet …. and yet … the profound potential of the human soul continues to express itself in this world, and as times get worse, the very best of what is within us will of necessity rise to the forefront. And all the phony machinations and propaganda of those who work based on fear, shall fall away like so much dust in the wind.

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By: “The true purpose of the university system is to bland out the culture to such a degree that there will no longer be any extremes on either side,—left or right—just the perpetual drone of academic discourse in which nothing important ever gets s https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2014/02/22/the-war-against-the-imagination/#comment-7350 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 22:08:18 +0000 http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=5581#comment-7350 […] Read more here:   http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2014/02/22/the-war-against-the-imagination/ […]

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By: suzencr https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2014/02/22/the-war-against-the-imagination/#comment-7349 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 16:41:46 +0000 http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=5581#comment-7349 “All they have to do is exercise the imaginations of their students, as well as their own, by offering a panoply of choices and then getting the hell out of the way.”

Every child born has unique genius just itching to express itself, but the system puts them in a box of rote expectation and the fruit rots off the vine. Thus a nation (world) of restless redundancy. No wonder it is exploding into violence! When every cell is bursting with imaginative possibility, rebellion against the mundane is inevitable and necessary. LIFE will find a way.

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