According to the news report she not only lectured them on the
need to work hard at getting a good education, but went so far as to tell them
that a good education guarantees success in life. This was going to be a long
post, but I’ll keep it brief:
1. Does Mrs Obama not realise that ghetto and near-ghetto
culture is different from mainstream culture and puts tremendous pressure on
kids not to get a good education – to
the point where so doing can be extremely dangerous?
2. Has she considered the question ‘how many people with
degrees are unemployed and claiming welfare?’ I gather it’s lots. Guarantee? I
don’t think so.
3. Is she not aware of a recent report which concluded that
young people are being put under unfair, unreasonable, maybe intolerable, and
certainly potentially damaging pressure by both the system and parents to ‘get
a good education’ irrespective of the stress it’s causing? My stepfather did
that to me when I was around ten. It carries the implied corollary of
suggesting how worthless you will be if you don’t
get a good education. It isn’t
nice and it shouldn’t happen.
I’m not against education. Education is generally good
(although I often wonder just how much it’s designed to make people happy and
open minded, and how much it’s designed simply to reinforce the Hum of Mother
Culture. I even wonder sometimes how honest it is.) But there’s a balance to be
considered and I do believe we’re loading far too much weight on one side. I’m
also disappointed when somebody with the gravitas of America’s First Lady travels 3,000
miles just to deliver the standard Establishment line.
Was that short enough? Shutting down and going for a shower
now.
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