Armed Teachers
Below is a meme making the rounds. While I usually ignore fatally flawed memes, sometimes I Comment, which I did on this one:
Disagree on the high-tech equipment. It amps up their radiation exposure, and conditions them to be controlled by government/The Matrix for life. Let's create Free Thinkers, not more drones to service Huxley's Brave New World.
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My Social Media Comments tend to be brief and just address one point. I’d also note on the meme below that students don’t need “new textbooks”. Rather, they need teachers that actually understand their subject, and can create their own textbooks from a variety of sources. Today’s “history books”, for example, are pretty much all the same, Official Narrative vanilla. Is there anyone left that still thinks Oswald shot at JFK? (Sorry, rhetorical question, yes they do walk among us, thank you Government Indoctrination Camps and Corporate Media). It’s delightful to find textbooks from, say, 150 years ago, and get the perspective of those times. Sometimes it’s real damn ugly, but if one really wants to understand history, one has to understand what came before and how people were manipulated—usually by “religion”—to hold those beliefs.
Bring in some excerpts from great writers, brief biographies of people that explore the complexity of human nature and, at the same time, the capacity to expand.
Creating materials for classes shouldn’t be limited to the social sciences. All too often, a great teacher can be hampered by a lousy textbook they are required to use. (Yes, that also works the other way, a poor teacher saved by a great textbook, that subject perhaps for another day). Math, Sciences, English, all too often students fail to thrive because of poorly-written textbooks, and that need not be the case.
