If you want to know where we're headed, look at the schools in countries that suffer from the most government interference. The answer is "down the shitter." foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/09/... - ThreadSky

erosalie.infoepi.com • 4 days ago

If you want to know where we're headed, look at the schools in countries that suffer from the most government interference. The answer is "down the shitter." https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/09/america-university-trump-middle-east-interference-zombie/

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erosalie.infoepi.com•4 days ago

No country burdened by government interference has ever consistently matched the United States in academic and scientific achievement. The constraint has prevented China from cleanly pulling ahead—and the CCP knows it.

erosalie.infoepi.com•4 days ago

If the U.S. begins to mirror that model by politicizing or restricting its own education system, it will not only fall behind but lose its edge entirely.

Despite its constraints, China has already surpassed the U.S. in several areas. Don’t assume America will stay on top by default. We won’t.

erosalie.infoepi.com•4 days ago

If a more biblical take is preferred, this is the embodiment of:
"You cannot serve mammon and God." (Luke 16:13).

If, at their best, education and science aspire to truth—and governments largely interfere to suppress that—then government interference is mammon. You can only serve one.

erosalie.infoepi.com•4 days ago

Before someone says, "Our institutions have lost their way!"—indeed, in many ways, that's true. That does not, therefore, mean we invite mammon to fix it.

erosalie.infoepi.com•4 days ago

As a former Republican, I find the notion that the state should micromanage every aspect of society sacrilegious.

It strikes at the meaning of freedom and is precisely what holds back the potential of many countries.

erosalie.infoepi.com•4 days ago

Students capable of so much more are held back in countries worldwide because their intelligence and capabilities threaten their governments. It is a dark place to be.

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jimpharo.bsky.social•3 days ago

I want to know what we're doing to stop this. And recover.

valentinabass.bsky.social•3 days ago

This article fails to mention the influence of the radical Christian nationalist movement that is the real driver of the the zombification observed in schools. It is in fact a pincer movement between Trump and this nefarious movement who have had designs on public education for decades

cajohnson-craig.bsky.social•3 days ago

wrote an article about this:

https://jacobin.com/2025/03/trump-higher-education-orban-authoritarianism

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