by trod1234 | 2025-06-16 03:00:34+00:00
I'd be interested to compare the outcomes of this supposed gender gap in education prior to the adoption of the existing teaching structures and pedagogy used today.

Specifically, going back to the way in which things were taught around 1966.

Starting with Sputnik education was changed broadly given a blank check and given carte blanche to reduce hiring standards of education in attempts to increase Engineers but the resulting outcomes have only seemingly made everything continually worse since that time period. This has caused numerous problems of corruption and ruin that drive these chaotic problems forward no matter what you do.

Instead of guessing at a pie in the sky thing on what you don't know, its more rational to go back to what previously worked with higher outcomes.

Eliminate Paulo Freire based pedagogy, hold teachers accountable, pay the good teachers more, fire the bad ones (no more lemon walk in Waiting for Superman), eliminate unnecessary torture, and return to teaching by a first principled approach instead of following a "Lying to children" approach which is the by-rote teaching used today. You'll see a huge change when you actually go back to teaching instead of torture. You do those things, and you'll see dramatic improvement.

The pedagogy used today is based more in Chinese thought reform and torture (under Mao) than anything else. Very few people have actually studied torture, and as a result those people are blind unable to recognize it, and it has been used everywhere to manipulate and control. Once you know how it works you see it in everything today.

You think the dramatic increase in school violence and shootings on the rise might point to targeted unending psychological stress/trauma being inflicted on children at vulnerable stages of development? You think people just bully out of the fun of things, its induced through clever techniques indirectly by teachers and they don't even know it because they are just parroting a technique without understanding the origin which was torture.

The hot potato for example isolates the victim, asks a opinion based question, and upon expressing disapproval of the teacher works simultaneously on the the person called out, but also on the approval seeking students who then do the bullying later. Its really quite clever but diabolical push pull intended to manipulate the student towards a collectivist thought/narrative. Teachers use this often mixing equally facts one should know with fictional narrative, which are indirectly sourced from the published books. No child would notice, even an inattentive adult might miss it (when they've had the training to recognize it).

Torture is the intentional infliction of such stress in sufficient exposure to bring about physiological impacts. Reduction of reasoning capability, Involuntary Hypnosis, PTSD, disassociation, or a semi-lucid psychosis seeking annihilation (capable of planning). These are the symptoms of exposure to torture.

The things that describe it in a way that you can recognize it were known about back in the 1950s and were unacceptable for PoWs, let alone sending your children off to such reeducation camps. If you teach someone that a lie is truth through torture, they'll just mimic it moving forward blind to the consequences. That goes equally for both teachers and students.

Its a sad state of affairs.

If you want to know more, you can read an overview by Joost Meerloo (Rape of the Mind), or the actual case studies from returning PoWs written up by Robert Lifton. Robert Cialdini covers all the psychological blindspots the techniques use except distorted reflected appraisal. This is how thought reform, cult programming, and indoctrination work.

Teach yourself, Reduce to first principles, recognize, and act.

You'll be horrified when you compare these things objectively and come to the realization that you've been forcing your children to attend a surrogate that claims education but is actually regular torture since before they could think.

Its quite likely they've turned out less than their potential because of that betrayal and the result of that damaging process.