A Nation of workers, not a nation of thinkers
Have you ever had the conversation that schools don’t teach you how to think? Have you ever been frustrated that you spend so many years in school and yet you come out with only the ability to regurgitate information? What if I told you that independent thought wasn’t the purpose of education in the first place? The decades before and after the 1900’s was the period of the Industrial Revolution. This is where many of the legendary billionaires made their fortune via the railroads, the automobile, oil, etc. The idea of the assembly line was crystallizing into reality with the birth of mass production. In 1902, The General Education Board was a non-governmental organization designed to support higher education and was funded primarily by John D Rockefeller. Throughout his lifetime he donated approximately $180 million. The board’s objectives were to promote farming, to establish public high schools in the South and to develop programs for African Americans. Why was so much funding put in