US Education is Broken (2009)

I’ve been saying for a long time that the education system in our country is broken.  It was never in tip top condition, but it was headed the right direction through most of the fifties through the seventies.

Then with the rise of the Reagan era, public education started being propagandized as a burdensome cost on society, rather than an obligation of self-interest.

This is another of the videos I cut in Winters, CA, in June of 2009.  Again, you’ll find some themes that I’d already been pounding on for decades when this video was shot, and I continue to press today.  This is how I was thinking about it in 2009 – how do you think it compares to the things I’ve said more recently?  Do you think it holds up to reality now? I notice that the way I framed the video, starting off with criticism of “liberalism” and “political correctness,” isn’t necessarily the same as I would now – the points are valid but misdirected, and the labels themselves have a very different sort of valence in 2022 than they did in 2009.