That's the intended outcome of the Rockefeller curriculum. Public education for the sole purpose of training workers with the basic skills required for the job they're hired to do who are also unquestioningly obedient to authority. Critical, strategic and long-range planning skills were eliminated as unnecessary, and also because they could lead to worker rebellion.
Good point. It seems there was an intention to remove long-range or "overarching" vision from education. Lack of vision would also prevent people from understanding the consequences of an agenda down the road. This in turn protects powerful criminals from people demanding accountability.
True. Also the importance of the humanities and literacy was scrapped in favor of training "technicians" (to borrow from Chris Hedges).
That's the intended outcome of the Rockefeller curriculum. Public education for the sole purpose of training workers with the basic skills required for the job they're hired to do who are also unquestioningly obedient to authority. Critical, strategic and long-range planning skills were eliminated as unnecessary, and also because they could lead to worker rebellion.
Good point. It seems there was an intention to remove long-range or "overarching" vision from education. Lack of vision would also prevent people from understanding the consequences of an agenda down the road. This in turn protects powerful criminals from people demanding accountability.