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Confidence is a good thing when there is reason for it. Capable people generally are confident and they should be. But should confidence and ignorance be paired together? Most people would think not, but not the American school system.
Knowledge and confidence are natural allies but confidence and ignorance are not.
Knowledge is necessary to succeed. Confidence is also integral to success. Ignorance is an impediment to success. But confidence paired with ignorance is worse than ignorance alone.
The school system in the US now specializes in imparting confidence to its captives. Self-esteem and political correctness are more important than knowledge. “No child left behind” has come to mean that nobody fails, regardless of whether they learned anything or not. As a result, the country becomes increasingly populated with confident ignoramuses. These people have been taught and believe that their opinion on any matter is just as valid as someone knowledgeable in the field. Isn’t that what democracy is all about?
Mark Twain described education as
… that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
The US educational system now specializes in the latter half of Twain’s definition. That is a tragedy. More dangerous is that these people believe they are educated and have been taught to be confident in spite of their ignorance. Ignorance is better served by humility, not confidence.
Schools must get out of the confidence, self-esteem and politically correct mode. Knowledge conveyance, not lock-step behavior and a false sense of one’s self, is required. Convincing incompetents that they are competent puts them on a path that leads to failure and disillusionment. Is there any other industry so cruel and unethical to their customers?
Turning out ignorant people may make it more convenient for the political mountebanks, but it is ultimately destructive to individuals and the society in which they reside. If politicians insist on creating more political pawns through ignorance, the least the schools can do is to stop instilling confidence where it is unwarranted.
Competent people should be confident. Incompetents should recognize their limitations, not be praised for them. Everyone has a right to make a fool of himself. Sadly, the majority of our young cannot even discern when this occurs. The fools don’t even recognize they are fools.
Another Einstein quote –
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
Imagination however, requires curiosity and curiosity also encourages people to want to learn the truth about things – something both parents and our education system are completely failing at.
But this is the way the ruling class and big money special interests want it – to keep the masses under control and exploited to maintain their power and wealth.
Imagine what would happen if kids were only allowed to graduate from high school if they understood the enormity of corruption in our political system because of money and the serious ways this undermines and destroys their opportunity to prosper and therefore undermines or destroys their future while forcing many to be nothing more than economic slaves.
Real confidence is only achieved not just by acquiring knowledge but having the imagination that motivates one to be curious enough to want to know the truth.
“Convincing incompetents that they are competent puts them on a path that leads to failure and disillusionment. Is there any other industry so cruel and unethical to their customers??
I know that psychotropic drugs play a big part in the mass killings we see like Aurora, CO, Sandy Hook. CT but I think the actual trigger for a great many of these events committed by younger people is the realization of their ignorance and the fact that they’ve been lied to their whole lives.
In the past here I have compared this to the holocaust and even said that what were are doing to kids is even worse. I still believe that. With the holocaust, most victims lost their lives. With the intentional dumbing down of kids and simultaneously convincing them they are special, they leave the victim alive and adrift in a cruel world they are not prepared to succeed in. Instead, they slowly come to realize they are not only NOT special, but too ignorant to get by.
Maybe confidence and ignorance shouldn’t go together, but they usually do.
Confidence @ Ignorance in motion!!
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“The school system in the US now specializes in imparting confidence to its captives. Self-esteem and political correctness are more important than knowledge.”
This building confidence is essential to the support of the liberal/communist ideology. It is key that they maintain the idea that everyone is equal, everyone has the same value. If weight is given to the fact that one person knowing more than another makes the knowledgeable person more useful, more productive, more valuable, then their whole communist ideology collapses. It is therefore necessary for the support of the communist ideology that merit and ability be ignored and anyone that doesn’t measure up just needs more confidence and that they believe is what will make everyone (appear to be) equal.
Liberalism destroyed America and Europe. .
When a person exits education, they should have learned the following:
A) You can’t afford to ever stop learning.
B) You are just now realizing how little you actually know.
C) If you’ve learned those two lessons you are smarter than 90% of America, and will probably do just fine in life.
I learned early in life that one of the most damaging combinations is stupidity and a high energy level. When a little power was added to the mix, disasters were inevitable.