Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System

Click here to access article by Chris Hedges from Truth Dig.

Passing bubble tests celebrates and rewards a peculiar form of analytical intelligence. This kind of intelligence is prized by money managers and corporations. They don’t want employees to ask uncomfortable questions or examine existing structures and assumptions. They want them to serve the system. These tests produce men and women who are just literate and numerate enough to perform basic functions and service jobs. The tests elevate those with the financial means to prepare for them. They reward those who obey the rules, memorize the formulas and pay deference to authority. Rebels, artists, independent thinkers, eccentrics and iconoclasts—those who march to the beat of their own drum—are weeded out.

While Obama pontificates about the need to upgrade education for the US to remain competitive, the government is obeying the commands of corporations to produce the kinds of graduates that Hedges describes so well.