Education Indoctrination
One thing that is often
misinterpreted is that certain institutions get their prestige because
of what they produce. Although this has at times in the past been true,
it is not to be automatically assumed at this point in American
history. Many of the United States best known universities are not
prestigious on current accomplishments alone. They possibly are
accomplished on the past doings of professors or students, but
currently fail to meet up to the expectations that are put on the top
schools in our country. A problem is that instead of continuing to move
our though forward and advance ideas that have been the foundation of
intellectual thought, educated people continue to build on fallacies
from the past, or create new ideas, sufficing small amounts of evidence
to prove their point and disprove past points.
Current intellectual thought is not precisely that. In many of these
institutions, knowledge is not necessarily rewarded. Professors from
the get-go teach students that they don't know things, in order to
create a student body who believes that they do not know things, as
opposed to teaching this student body what they need to know in order
to form opinions and create knowledgeable ideas of their own. I make
this statement based on the fact that many students in todays colleges
don't come out knowing or needing to know what it is they study, which
allows professors to in turn substitute rhetoric and personal beliefs
in place of actual learning. From the beginning of postsecondary
education, students are taught to believe whatever it may be that their
professors are saying. This allows the professors to suffice propaganda
for proper knowledge. Professors in turn use this extremely modifiable
minds to meet their own ends. An example of this is Barack Obama. Mr.
Obama is none the wiser for what he was taught at elitist schools.
Listening to him speak belies the fact that he even went to one of
these institutions, because of his seeming lack of knowledge about
relevant thought and political ideas. The idea that tire inflation and
tuneups will allow for as much oil to be saved as would be gotten from
drilling is an idiotic hope that is unfounded, unintelligent and
otherwise worthless. If, perhaps, 300 million Americans were driving
around on flat tires with untuned engines, then that idea might work
out. This, however, is not true as many Americans do the simple things
that they can to make their cars run more efficiently and correctly. If
institutions taught what knowledge driven thought consisted of, civic
leaders would not be leading us into the same cruxes that have plagued
our society since the beginning of the 20th Century.
The beacon of American thought is learning and knowledge, yet somehow
the people in the places that matter most have let that go, in hopes of
passing their own agendas. Allowances for personal error are seldom
made in American politics and society as it is seen as a weakness. As
Americans are taught to be more accepting of others, those preaching
that have done the opposite with their own. When a politician changes
his or her opinion because they have realized the err of their ways,
they are seen as a “flip flopper”, and not as someone who upon closer
examination has decided to fix where they have wronged. I do not see
the progress in politics or society that once set America apart from
the rest of the world. Even the one institution that we perfected and
allowed to function under our watch has started to come under fire from
the elitist people who have become the bane of it in the first place. I
am of course talking about capitalism, which if left to its own devices
will function better than any known, and possible unknown, economic
system. Adam Smith frequently spoke of an invisible hand that guided
the economy to perfection or at least proper function. This invisible
hand allowed for consumers and producers to decide where and what their
desired price would be. An invisible hand was not government
intervention, nor was it pressure from unrelated or uninvolved parties.
This would be a visible hand, and would be synonymous with a communist
or socialist economy.
Now is a more important time than the time of Adam Smith, as we not
only have to stick up for our economy, but also our way of life and our
rights as politicians and the educational elite allow more people to be
a part of their plan to take over the American way of thinking. The
American way of thinking is for individuals to have their own opinions,
not for a elite group to tell people how to think, and if there is one
thing to hold onto, that is it.