Why do governments lie?

Governments lie. ...If they told people the truth, they wouldn't last very long. --Historian Howard Zinn.

Have YOU recovered yet?

I rediscovered I could learn on my own when I did my pilot ground school using a "programmed text" instead of an instructor. The main damage done to us by government-style education is it leads you to believe, mistakenly, that you need someone to tell you what to learn, when to learn and how to learn, and then insisting you haven't learned until they say so. 

Have you recovered yet?   --L. Reichard White, Monday, July 16, 2012 1:09 PM

Are YOU civilized?

The difference between "civilized" (cityfied) and uncivilized is that the "civilized" folks have ceded control AND "RESPONSE-ABILITY" to agents outside themselves. --L. Reichard White, June 18, 2012, 19:08:22

Backwards and Upside-down

"Modern" man does things backwards and upside-down. Education for example. Rather than teaching someone when they're ready to learn, we insist they learn when we're ready to teach. --L. Reichard White, June 16, 2012, 11:36:36

Quick fix?

"Remove the pledge from the flag. Remove the flag from schools. Remove schools from government." --Daniel Pose

Instant dinosaurs

The internet has made government schools instant dinosaurs. --L. Reichard White, Wednesday, May 09, 2012 9:52 AM

The Standard of Deviation

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." ~Frank Zappa

Monumental misdirection

"Government schools teach WHAT to think instead of HOW to think. Which makes for uncritical consumers of propaganda." --L. Reichard White

Biased?

Why do so-called "debunkers" spend all their time trying to debunk alternative conspiracy theories and virtually no time debunking the Establishment Conspiracy Theory?  --L. Reichard White, Saturday, May 21, 2011 10:05 AM

The bad-guys: It's not who you think - - -

Remember, it's not the people who are paid to run it who are evil, stupid and incompetent, it's the system, the machine, itself. --L. Reichard White, Saturday, April 23, 2011 5:20 AM

You can't handle the truth - - -

"Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the state has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied." --Arthur Miller (and thanks to Agente Snow)

Re-mem-mem re-mem-mem-mem-ber when?

Remember when you "pledged allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands?"

When did it become a "democracy?"

Why?

--L. Reichard White Friday, March 25, 2011 5:21 AM

Who's in control of you?

Do you listen to the commentary - - - - or do you observe and decide for yourself?  --L. Reichard White, Monday, February 07, 2011 11:10 PM

Always remember:

Just because it's stupid doesn't mean they won't do it. --L. Reichard White, Saturday, January 29, 2011 7:06 AM

learning vs. teaching

There's an important difference between "learning" and "teaching" - - - learning happens when the learner is ready, "teaching" when the "teacher" is ready.  It's more important by far that the learner is ready.  --L. Reichard White, Saturday, January 08, 2011 8:59 AM

REAL mind control!

Modern "schools" tell you what you have to learn, when you have to learn it, how to learn it, and don't admit you've learned it till you pass their tests and they tell you you've learned it. In other words, the traditions of modern schooling have taken complete control of what you learn away from you and put it in other hands. This is a tremendous coup. And loss. AND mistake.  --L. Reichard White, The HI-JACKING of Civilization, Chapter 24, Going Native, October 22, 2007

I LEARNED PHYSICS WHEN I TAUGHT IT, NOT WHEN I "LEARNED" IT, DESPITE ALL THE TESTS I PASSED. DITTO MY "EDUCATION" CLASSES, TRYING TO TEACH ME HOW TO TEACH.