Is American Education a conspiracy to dumb people down and produce obedient drones for an industrial economy?
If by “American Education,” you mean the public schools, i’d say this is mostly correct. But mentioning “industrial economy” focuses too much on people as workers (i.e., drones). Before that, they are citizens and voters. People who must be manipulated and controlled. John Dewey and all the other big shots in Education were trying to create a Socialist America, and to do that they had to create dumbed-down, compliant citizens. (I write about this a lot, trying to decide how much we can speak of a conspiracy.
