[lbo-talk] literacy

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> The purpose of public education has always been to
> prepare most people to do
> jobs for which not much literacy is needed. The
> American officials of
> education have had to design schools to produce poor
> or failed literacy in
> most, otherwise the above dilemma would arise.
>  

You overestimate the Ed bureaucracy. These people are
not even capable of running their own institutions,
much less engaging in a sinister plot to repress the
children of the workers and the poor. In addition to
being incompetent and half bright, the Ed bureaucrats
are asked to no an impossible job under absurd
conditions with no money. Add to that a culture that
systematically disses academic achievement
(pointy-haided inallecshuls . . .), and the outcome is
inevitable. Half-assed education may be functional for
capitalism, but it is not explained by its functionality.

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