Rote learning is, it might be noted, the predominant educational system in the Gulf petromonarchies whose tax-free, union-free and strike-free economies and privately-owned dynastic systems of government constitute the unspoken models for the world’s richest.
There is good reason why the rich would want rote learning for all children except their own. If children of the poor are taught to think critically they are obviously more likely to not accept cosmologies in which the power of the wealthy is divinely ordained — as it is in the Abrahamic religions. As was discussed in 2010 by one Vladimir Moss (https://web.archive.org/web/20130806034006/http://www.czipm.org/orthodox-monarchist.html), until the twentieth century almost all orthodox Christians viewed what we consider democracy as ipso facto atheistic and totally incompatible with religion.
In fact, it was Karl Marx who was the first to view democracy (as distinct from the Herrenvolk democracies of North America, Australia and South Africa) in a positive way and not as mob rule, and Marx equally viewed religion as incompatible with democracy. Only with the rise of the secular Nazi and Stalinist dictatorships, alongside the Marshall Plan and civil rights, was the incompatibility of religion with democracy genuinely challenged, and present-day history suggests the postwar boom period may well be extremely anomalous.
Although I have seen typos in many books (in one which I will not name, a typo was corrected in the second edition then, amazingly, restored in the third and fourth!) if ACE books have as many typos as is being suggested there really are problems.
Yea it's at the point for me where, even if the parents of these students believe in full Satanic possession, or that humans can cast magical powers, or that women have no place on the historical, political, or spiritual stage, the education itself is just bad. Even by their standards :/
Rote learning is, it might be noted, the predominant educational system in the Gulf petromonarchies whose tax-free, union-free and strike-free economies and privately-owned dynastic systems of government constitute the unspoken models for the world’s richest.
There is good reason why the rich would want rote learning for all children except their own. If children of the poor are taught to think critically they are obviously more likely to not accept cosmologies in which the power of the wealthy is divinely ordained — as it is in the Abrahamic religions. As was discussed in 2010 by one Vladimir Moss (https://web.archive.org/web/20130806034006/http://www.czipm.org/orthodox-monarchist.html), until the twentieth century almost all orthodox Christians viewed what we consider democracy as ipso facto atheistic and totally incompatible with religion.
In fact, it was Karl Marx who was the first to view democracy (as distinct from the Herrenvolk democracies of North America, Australia and South Africa) in a positive way and not as mob rule, and Marx equally viewed religion as incompatible with democracy. Only with the rise of the secular Nazi and Stalinist dictatorships, alongside the Marshall Plan and civil rights, was the incompatibility of religion with democracy genuinely challenged, and present-day history suggests the postwar boom period may well be extremely anomalous.
fabulous team of writers they have over there not even vetting this shit after 22 (!!) years
Hey! That's "superior Christian educatgion" you're talking about!
Although I have seen typos in many books (in one which I will not name, a typo was corrected in the second edition then, amazingly, restored in the third and fourth!) if ACE books have as many typos as is being suggested there really are problems.
Yea it's at the point for me where, even if the parents of these students believe in full Satanic possession, or that humans can cast magical powers, or that women have no place on the historical, political, or spiritual stage, the education itself is just bad. Even by their standards :/