We are living in a flea circus

[greenseed]

So i was watching this presentation by Tragedyandhope.com s Richard Grove with John Taylor Gatto called The Ultimate History Lesson and John mentions a student of his telling him about his flea collection. The student said that if you have a bucket or container of fleas that are jumping around energetically and you want to make them docile you put a lid on tje container. After one hour you go back and lift the lid and the fleas would be huddled together and would not jump for a while. He relates it to the current public school system. When humans are born we are innately curious and active, moving and exploring but as we go through the school system our creativities and curiosities are suppressed and moulded with various "lids" of authority and conformity. Standardized multiple choice testing doesn't teach critical thinking but memorization. These test also keep children in a stressful one size fits all environment in which if they don't "behave" ie bow to authority they are punished and or drugged. John also mentions

[greenseed]

that flea circuses and flea training was a past-time of the elite in old-times.



Who knew flea circuses are a thing?

[greenseed]

Here's his book An Underground History of American Education (i haven't read it yet)http://mhkeehn.tripod.com/ughoae.pdf

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short history of the flea circus

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this flea sports video is funny as fuk

[Som-Pong]

Any teacher using standardized multiple choice tests is a lazy hack.

[greenseed]

i agree but as far as i understand theyre a requirement in most north american schools. i sure remember doing a lot of them. i enjoyed them because they were so easy and i would be praised for memorizing whatever jargon happened to be required for said test. la de da



here's a lab coat guy (superior to us of course; authority yupyup) talking about training fleas

[Masato]

Holy shit, scary thread

Will watch

[greenseed]

Please do. Those videos with John Taylor Gatto are very interesting in terms of the evolution of western education. The flea circus vids are just funny and creepy.

[greenseed]

Hi all,



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