day no. 17,187: when the joke isn't half bad

“To say that the moderns are half-educated may seem to be too complimentary by half.” — G. K. Chesterton

And to punctuate the point, most moderns won't get that joke. All they heard was, "oh man, I have to do fractions!"

“Now the public school system may not work satisfactorily, but it works; the public schools may not achieve what we want, but they achieve what they want.” — G.K. Chesterton, What’s Wrong With The World

Feducation is not meant to produce free people, it is meant to churn out wage slaves.

"Public education has not produced an educated public." — G.K. Chesterton

Nor has intended to. To repeat Chesterton's previous point, public education has not failed, it has succeeded. It has done the thing it set out to do. It both tricked most people into thinking it was doing something else and did the thing it was trying to do

“Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” — G.K. Chesterton

A feducation will never give a man the tools he needs to question his government. The state will never supply its citizenry with the ability to live without it. The state is not teaching you who our forefathers were, let alone what they were taught. If you forget that men like that existed in addition to ignoring what they knew, the state can reign supreme and run on unopposed.