Do you think they want the “common folk” to recall their superpowers?

Do you think compulsory schooling was designed so you can Be All You Can Be?

Do you think peer-reviewed materialistic science was devised to Expand Your Horizons?

Do you think the Committee of Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) exists for your benefit?

Or the James Randi Educational Foundation? Or Quackwatch?

One of my minor accomplishments was getting skeptic Joe Nickell booted off the nationally-syndicated Jerry Hughes Show in 1998.

Jerry Hughes interrupted Nickell’s tirade against me with: “That’s enough! I warned you about being so rude. You’re off the air. Don’t let the doorknob hit you where the bulldog bit you!”

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John Taylor Gatto (The Underground History of American Education: A Schoolteacher’s Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling, Revised Edition, 2001, 2006) wrote …

According to all official analysis, dumbness isn’t taught (as I claim), but is innate in a great percentage of what has come to be called ‘the workforce.’ Workforce itself is a term that should tell you much about the mind that governs modern society. According to official reports, only a small fraction of the population is capable of what you and I call mental life: creative thought, analytical thought, judgmental thought, a trio occupying the three highest positions on Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. Just how small a fraction would shock you. According to experts, the bulk of the mob is hopelessly dumb, even dangerously so. Perhaps you’re a willing accomplice to this social coup which revived the English class system. Certainly you are if your own child has been rewarded with a ‘gifted and talented’ label by your local school. This is what Dewey means by ‘proper’ social order.”