day no. 16,961: all work and no play

“I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers.” — John D. Rockefeller

Secularism is all work and no play. Educrats don't care about the person, they care about the person's productivity. The womb gives birth to workers. They do not want free thinkers because that kind of thing gets them thinking about freedom.

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

Nor was it attempting to. Public education has not failed, it has achieved its goals.

"In our dreams...people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present educational conventions fade from our minds, and unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, educators, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have ample supply. The task we set before ourselves is very simple...we will organize children...and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way." — Rockefeller's General Education Board (1906)

Vocation is the goal of state education. It is not meant to produce people, but spare parts. State schools mass produce widgets. It makes people to replace the parts that have worn out. Federal education (feducation) produces citizens to rule and workers to tax. Public education is secular boot camp and lifelong wage slavery is the war.

"We want one class to have a liberal education. We want another class, a very much larger class of necessity, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks." — Woodrow Wilson

Self-appointed queen bees bemoan the scarcity of the worker bees and despise the ingenuity of the few who aspire to royalty. So, state education was invented to stunt the ambitions of potential usurpers and to stoke the inhibitions of potential workers into the flames of productive kindling. These people serve to keep the fire warm for those who like to read. These are the logs burned at the stake of secular avarice and indifference.