Republicans are the Anti-Education Party (and Proud of It)

[Diamond_Dog]

The modern Republican Party hates education.

A bold statement, I know, but it’s becoming more evident all the time.

Oh sure, they oppose Critical Race Theory and all forms of anti-racist curriculum, comprehensive sex education, and the Common Core standards proposed during the Obama Administration.

But I’m not talking about any of that.

Conservatives’ objections aren’t simply about specific types of instruction — they’re about the very process of schooling itself.

They oppose it and regularly make their disdain for education and the educated evident.

I first noticed it nearly 20 years ago, when then-president George W. Bush joked to students at Yale about having been a C student there. As W explained it, grades obviously didn’t matter; after all, you could be thoroughly unremarkable from an academic standpoint, as he had been, and still go on to run the country.

As bizarre as the moment was — it was odd to see an American president dismiss the importance of academic achievement — at least W’s embrace of intellectual mediocrity came from a place of humility and self-deprecation. Bush wasn’t trying to dunk on the process of education itself, so much as poking fun at his own advance despite having been an average student.

Compared to what we have now, this would be preferable, even endearing.

Good read….

https://timjwise.medium.com/republicans-are-the-anti-education-party-and-proud-of-it-444f1ae1724e

[ShazamIam]

1. The 10% need some of that vote from the low wage earners that keep them rich the earners

poor. If they keep them ignorant they can use fear and hate to win elections;
though that takes a great deal of effort in also suppressing the opposition voters.

Training the children of the working class (and people of color and immigrants) to be good servants with only enough educationj to carry out orders and be directed.

Special educations for the laboring and working classes, keep them voting against their own interests and voting for their employer's interests.

[fwvinson]

3. 60% of Republicans read at a 6th grade level. Read that yesterday. Don't have the link. Too lazy to

find it again.

[ShazamIam]

4. Yes, and trained by their religious leaders to be submissive, obedient and unquestioning. 10%

isn't enough to win elections, neither is that 60% so they have to have dummies and still rely on disenfranchising the opposition.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Grades don't matter for rich white sons of CIA directors. . . . nt

[Zorro]

5. They've been celebrating ignorance for at least the last four decades

I think the root of their disdain for education stems from the 60's, when school prayer was disallowed in public school systems by the Supreme Court. They've been het up ever since.

[BigmanPigman]

6. I think you nailed it.