Teaching Subservience

Larken Rose

The aim of public education is to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level.

March 20, 2008 - It's really handy when tyrants forget to hide their tyrannical agenda. I give you two quotes. First, this is one from my book, How To Be A Successful Tyrant:

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Starting Early

As with other animals, what humans learn very early in life often stays with them forever. Children are very trusting in authority and unable to think for themselves (having had little life experience). While of course they cannot understand complex "administrative policy decisions," the most basic pro-tyranny, anti- freedom concepts should be pounded into their little heads as soon as possible. Early on, the goal should not be to teach the young peasants specific facts, or even particular political ideas, but to mold the way they view life in general—to build a foundation upon which all your future propaganda can be built.

"[W]hen even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition." _{[Mark Twain]}

The most fundamental thing the young peasants must be forced to accept is: children who obey authority are good; those who do not are bad. The "teacher" (the "authority" in the classroom) is to be viewed as the sole source of truth and the sole arbiter of justice. The "teacher" has the final decision in everything, his decision cannot be appealed or questioned, and he can reward or punish at whim. Seeking the approval of the authority (via good grades, prizes, praise, etc.) and avoiding the scorn and disapproval of the authority should be the only concern for the little peasants-in- training.

"Schools are intended to produce, through the application of formulae, formulaic human beings whose behavior can be predicted and controlled." _{[John Taylor Gatto]}

Teaching Subservience

Everything about the "education" systems in most of the world teaches, first and foremost, that one should always be subservient to authority. As an aspiring tyrant, you have already had much of the work done for you, in that schools are already obedient-peasant factories. While you can therefore just use what is already there instead of having to start from scratch, you still need to understand how it works in order to assure that it continues to train your peasants to do as they are told.

"Look again at the seven lessons of schoolteaching: confusion, class assignment, dulled responses, emotional and intellectual dependency, conditional self-esteem, surveillance — all of these things are good training for permanent underclasses." _{[John Taylor Gatto]}

"A general State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly like one another; ... in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body." _{[John Stuart Mill]}

For an in-depth analysis and explanation of how "education" is used first and foremost to train the peasants to be willing subjects of an authoritarian system of control, see Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto. (Despite winning various awards for his work as a teacher, including New York State Teacher of the Year in 1992, Mr. Gatto now understands and attempts to expose the true agenda behind modern schooling. Though he holds pro-freedom, pro-individualist views that are antithetical to the agenda of megalomaniacs like yourself, his insights can nonetheless be turned around to help you maximize your tyrannical control of the peasantry.)

Slaves Training Slaves

It would be impossible to get enough willing conspirators to intentionally dumb down and subjugate all the peasant children. Fortunately for you, there is no need to do that. Most of the time, those who indoctrinate the next generation of authority- obeyers are simply duped peasants themselves, passing on the false ideas that they learned in childhood. Most teachers mean well and want to help the little peasant larvae, and don't even notice the messages of obedience, subservience, intellectual dependence and conformity they are delivering day in and day out. In other words, the teachers truly believe that obeying authority is good, and so that message always shines through, whatever other particular facts or concepts they are trying to teach.

The main lessons learned by students are: authority will decide what you know; authority is the sole source of truth and knowledge; authority decides whether your opinions and beliefs are correct; the validity or accuracy of information provided by authority is not subject to debate; authority will "grade" how good you are; authority has complete control over you; authority decides how you will spend your time; there is no appeal of a decision from authority; authority has the right to know everything about you, and everything you do; one should be silent and motionless unless authority commands otherwise; it is good to report others who disobey authority; authority can punish everyone for what one person does; your future depends entirely upon whether authority approves of you.

"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality." _{[H. L. Mencken]}

The students will forget the capital of Wyoming, how many moons Jupiter has, who fought in the War of 1812, and the scientific symbol for iron; but they will not forget the real message of school: good people obey authority.

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And this quote is from a California "judge":

“A primary purpose of the educational system is to train school children in good citizenship, patriotism and LOYALTY TO THE STATE and the nation as a means of protecting the public welfare.”

For a great (albeit creepy) article about this, check out the following: 

To Train School Children In ... Loyalty to the State.

STUMBLE IT!

       
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