Value of public education and universal literacy?

>The ultimate value of literacy depends upon the end to which it is used. And to what end, is it generally used to-day? It is used for convenience or for entertainment, by those who read; for some advertisement, or some objectionable propaganda, — for money-making or power-grabbing — by those who write
>The real advantage of general literacy, if any, is to be sought elsewhere. It lies not in the better quality either of the exceptional men and women or of the literate millions, but rather in the fact that the latter are rapidly becoming intellectually more lazy and therefore more credulous than ever — and not less so; — more easily deceived, more liable to be led like sheep without even the shadow of a protest, provided the nonsense one wishes them to swallow be presented to them, in printed form and made to appear “scientific.” The higher the general level of literacy, the easier it is, for a government in control of the daily press, of the wireless and of the publishing business, — these almost irresistible modern means of action upon the mind — to keep the masses and the “intelligenzia” under its thumb, without them even suspecting it.
>It is, we repeat, by far easier to enslave a literate people than an illiterate one, strange as this may seem at first sight. And the enslavement is more likely to be lasting. The real advantage of universal literacy is to tighten the grip of the governing power upon the foolish and conceited millions. That is probably why it is dinned into our heads, from babyhood onwards, that “literacy” is such a boon. Capacity to think for one’s self is, however, the real boon.

Is she right? Are universal literacy and public education more harmful than helpful?

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Savitri Devi is always right.

Complex economies require that the labor force can at least read and write. The problem is that when low IQ people learn how to read and write they continue being low IQ. Only now they think they are entitled to an opinion (which "opinion" is whatever is on the media) and that opinion has the same value as the opinion of an expert. Which still would be pretty much harmless in itself if these same people didn't have the power to vote.

Shes conflating literacy with public schools. Yes, public schools are an attempt by the state to exert some level of ideological brain washing. But it's absurd to say an illiterate populace is easier to control. Oppressive regimes still try to prevent low caste members from gaining literacy. For fuck sake, why do you think there is such a movement to regulatebe the Internet? They don't want you reading all that "fake news".
Governments want to control information, and if they could have a productive class of illiterate drones, the globalists would do it. Instead they try to carrot and stick you into only consuming 'right think' info via hate speech laws and calling things "fake news"

Illiterate people are often quite independant. They follow the customs of their ancestors and not the norms determined by modern governments, although some people wouldn't consider fidelity to ancestral custom as independance. Illiterate people don't read the New York Times (i.e. propoganda). Unfortunately propoganda has already switched to a visual medium. Very few people read the news anyway (fortunately) but unfortunately they still tune into their TVs.

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>Is she right?

YES.

>Are universal literacy and public education more harmful than helpful?

1. EDUCATION SHOULD NOT BE COMPULSORY; THOSE WHO HAVE AN INTRINSIC IMPELLENT TOWARD TRUTH WILL BECOME LITERATE BY THEMSELVES, AND THOSE WHO WISH TO BUILD KNOWLEDGE WILL CHOOSE TO FORMALLY STUDY FROM THEIR OWN VOLITION, THUS, ONLY THE NOBLEST INDIVIDUALS —THOSE IMPERVIOUS TO MANIPULATION, AND DECEIT, THROUGH FALSITY— WILL BECOME LITERATE, AND/OR EDUCATED.

2. THE TERM "PUBLIC EDUCATION" IN THIS CONTEXT IS INAPT; THE APT TERM WOULD BE "COMPULSORY EDUCATION"; PUBLIC EDUCATION IS MERELY EDUCATION FUNDED BY THE STATE, AND IT DOES NOT NECESSARILY ENTAIL COMPULSION, WHICH IS THE RELEVANT FACTOR HERE.

>... THOSE WHO HAVE AN INTRINSIC [IMPELLENCE] TOWARD TRUTH...

>Who is this.
>google image search.
>Savitri Devi Mukherji (30 September 1905 – 22 October 1982) was the pseudonym of the Greek-French writer Maximiani Portas (also spelled Maximine Portaz), a prominent proponent of animal rights, deep ecology[1] and Nazism, who served the Axis cause during World War II by spying on Allied forces in India.[2][3][4] She wrote about animal rights movements and was a leading member of the Nazi underground during the 1960s
>Savitri Devi was also an animal-rights activist who authored the book The Impeachment of Man in 1959[4] and was a proponent of Hinduism[6] and Nazism, synthesizing the two, proclaiming Adolf Hitler to have been sent by Providence, much like an avatar of the Hindu God Vishnu.

Jesus fucking Christ why does Nazism have so many fucking weirdos?

>Jesus fucking Christ why does Nazism have so many fucking weirdos?

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

>Loses a war.

>Is an idiot.

>A winning idiot.

Fuck you all. The masses require an honest, unbiased education so they may not be deceived or oppressed.

>BBBBBBUT BRRROOOOOO, SCHOOL LIES TO YOU MAAAAAAAAN TEACHES YOU TO BE A DROOOOOONE.

>>It is, we repeat, by far easier to enslave a literate people than an illiterate one, strange as this may seem at first sight. And the enslavement is more likely to be lasting. The real advantage of universal literacy is to tighten the grip of the governing power upon the foolish and conceited millions. That is probably why it is dinned into our heads, from babyhood onwards, that “literacy” is such a boon. Capacity to think for one’s self is, however, the real boon.

Nah wrong on that.
Illiterate people can' t contest you in the fields of law and politics.

The people who think the concept of public schools are bad need to fucking die.
I've been to places where you still need to pay money to even get your kid to enroll in school because they have no free K-12 education. They suck major balls.

Illiterate people tend to follow some sort of imposed set of morals, usually by being inserted into some sort of community (generally with hierarchy), be it religious, national, military, etc. Therefore they are manipulated only insofar as their group is manipulated. This becomes more true the farther you go in the past.

Widespread literacy came after Enlightenment, where the trend started to change from basing ideologies on group to basing ideologies on arguments. And arguments are presented through logic and semantics, which can be twisted to manipulate and convince. Coupled with the increasing availability of information and the fact that the least biased most objective views are usually more complex and harder to communicate.

THE POSSIBILITY OF DECEPTION IS CONTINGENT ON THE INDIVIDUAL'S IGNOBILITY; A NOBLE INDIVIDUAL IS VIRTUALLY IMPERVIOUS TO DECEPTION, REGARDLESS OF HIS/HER LITERACY, AND EDUCATION, OR LACK THEREOF; AN IGNOBLE INDIVIDUAL IS OVERLY SUSCEPTIBLE TO DECEPTION, REGARDLESS OF HIS/HER LITERACY, AND EDUCATION, OR LACK THEREOF.

IN A NOBLE INDIVIDUAL, LITERACY, AND EDUCATION FACILITATE HIS/HER HEALTHY CONSCIOUSNESS, DIRECTING HIM/HER TO FREEDOM; IN AN IGNOBLE INDIVIDUAL LITERACY, AND EDUCATION, AUGMENTATES HIS/HER MORBID CONSCIOUSNESS, EXACERBATING HIS/HER SUSCEPTIBILITY FOR BEING DECEIVED.

YOU DO NOT SEEM TO UNDERSTAND THE TOPIC OF THIS THREAD.

what's weird about animal rights activism? and avatars are an old and established concept in hinduism, and if anyone fits the bill it's hitler i guess. even jung thought he embodied wotan.

and who will give them this "unbiased" education? such an education has never yet existed, and never will.

what are your lifts rei

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