Paranoid or feasible?

I think of everything the government has become. All the lies and deception. And the thought pops into my head.

Public schools have been horribly underfunded for quite some time now. What if that's the plan? The government holds the purse strings. I can totally see purposely underfunding schools as something that the government would do to keep their power. True education breeds minds that don't just take orders. But that's what the government thrives on; total control without someone saying... wait, what? If the government kept school funding low, obviously students would not be getting as good of an education as they should be. There would be less programs and teachers would not be as intelligent as they should be.

Currently, there aren't many benefits to teaching other then the small possibility of changing some lives. Teachers get treated like crap; they aren't paid what they're worth, they're belittled by students , their benefits are slipping away, support staff is more or less non-existent, and they easily can get sued in this greedy day-in-age. Currently I hold a 1 million dollar liability policy so I can student teach. And that's the minimum required by law.

The government is slowly allowing the schooling of this country go down the shitter. On purpose? My point here is that without true education we are becoming a society of morons who just listen to what our government tells us. We take no action. We were not taught to fight for what we believe in; or to think for that matter. And that's great for the government. It keeps those rich kids from good, private schools in power. Of course the occasional person of power comes from an underfunded school. But the majority rules, and the majority are easily manipulated because of said underfunding.

Education in this country is not valued, which to me is odd. We claim ourselves to be number one in the world. We're the best! At everything! But we're breeding idiots.

If we want to stay on top, it starts with education.

If we want to bring peace to this world (which I think a loftier goal), it starts with education.

Sometimes I fantasize what the world would be like if we took per year attacking our neighbors and put it towards education. The result would be mind blowing.