Phillips Exeter Academy, Public Education and "Intelligent" Design

[devilgrrl]

Someone on another message board brought this up and I thought I'd share

It's interesting that the debate on public education is narrowed down to evolution vs. intelligent design, textbooks, money, and intimate relations with teachers.

What you never read or hear about are the elite prep-schools, where a real education is administered, and such matters are below them, better left to...public education.

President Bush and his father were privileged to attend Phillips Andover.*

Without going into much detail about the schools, just log into their website, and see what the children of our leaders experience as education, and compare it to what the rest of the country's children are getting.

Now there is a real debate.

* corrected. Now back to what is stated.

[ruggerson]

1. Ummm... wrong

They went to Phillips Academy. Otherwise known as Andover. They wouldn't have been caught dead at Exeter.

[Bluebear]

2. Dim Son would have been eaten alive at Exeter nt

[devilgrrl]

3. Phillips Andover.... I forgot to add "sic" -

Yes, the original has an error but I didn't want to correct it because I didn't write it. :shrug:

Yes, the Georges went to Phillips Andover: http://www.andover.edu/about_andover/notable_alums.htm

[Inland]

4. Our public schools are so good they can teach BOTH science

and a bunch of shit made up to please fundies from some other community on the other side of the country.

We've got nothing but time and money to spare. Otherwise the winter break would be three months long if we didn't fill up time with BS "theories."

[Ilsa]

5. I wish the science and biology instructors

at Phillips academy would speak up about Bush's idiotic stance on "intelligent design.".

[newswolf56]

6. Bear in mind that -- regardless of the pseudo-controversies over...

allegedly "Leftist" or "Christian" teachers, absurd political correctness of the sort that gets young boys expelled merely for drawing pictures of firearms, etc. ad nauseum -- our public schools are exactly like our corporate media: (1)-absolutely controlled by the Big Business community and (2)-deliberately designed to provide the workplace with generation after generation of viciously anti-intellectual, mindlessly conformist, helplessly ignorant automatons -- the post-industrial, American equivalent of "good Germans," people so benighted they cannot even define their own interest, much less evolve the solidarity essential to defend it. THAT is the difference between American public schooling and the sort of traditional, classics-based education one gets at a place like Phillips Exeter: one is zomboid conditioning for all of us deemed (on the basis of our parents' incomes) to be proletarians, the other is learning for the oligarchy and its ever-more-powerful leaders.

(Note especially in this context the example of public-school history, civics and sociology: is it any coincidence these vital subjects are taught by coaches -- the least well educated {and therefore most boring} teachers in the school system? Indeed the very boredom {and thus ignorance} inflicted by such courses is itself deliberate -- the methodical discouragement of interest in politics and current events, the malicious restriction of the essential knowledge of constitutional rights.)

[delete_bush]

7. sounds a little too "nuanced" for Junior...

"A liberal education seeks to enable humans to understand, appreciate, and possibly alter the bounds of biology and tradition and to promote the development of self-critical, tolerant individuals who are committed to working with others to achieve a common good."

To think that such a wonderful opportunity was wasted on this idiot.