by Wm. Maxwell Dominion, PhD

Created on: December 04, 2008   Last Updated: December 14, 2008

NATIONAL SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC COSTS OF WEAK PUBLIC EDUCATION

As you know, the consensus is that our national education system is nonexistent. In reality, our national education system is a hodge-podge of private, public, and charter schools that in years past varied and operated to different standards state-by-state. Our quasi-national education system is not educating American citizens well enough to maintain and sustain international competitive advantages. These competitive advantages are inextricably linked to Math, English, and Science literacy, and their application to the progression of science and technological innovation. Competitive advantages are critical to national security and future prosperity.

QUESTIONS

The question becomes "Why does the most powerful and riches nation in the world have such a weak public education system?" The answer lies in the complex tension and interplay between politics, free market enterprise, savage economic capitalism, and the paradigms of racialism, classes, and religious supremacy.

Savage economic capitalism wins out because the riches 1% to 5% of the American population, along with corporations influence and control our elected political officials. This unrestrained application of wealth and power militates against having a healthy public education system, democracy, and economy. As a result of our unhealthy democracy and economic practices, i.e., our countries flawed approach to governance pure free market enterprise cannot flourish.

EXAMPLES

Examples of savage economic and political capitalism are slave commerce and exploitation, Native American genocide and ethnic cleansing, and the current ethnic cleansing of Arabs in the
Middle East. These peoples have been victims of European and western colonialism, capitalism, and imperialism for hundreds of years by the French, Russians, English, United States of America, Dutch, and Germany.

"The attacks on September 11 in the U.S. are a consequence of the explosive situation in the Middle East, a region that has been ravaged by wars and conflicts that often last for decades and that feed on themselves. What has turned this region into such a powder keg has been its domination by the great outside imperialist powers that have literally sucked the wealth out for their own enrichment, at the expense of the vast majority of people, who are forced to live under abject poverty. To ensure the continual flow of profits, the big imperial powers have invaded and occupied parts of the region

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