If a house construction standard requires that a particular house be built with 30,000 nails to withstand hurricane winds of 90 mph over a 72 hour period, educators say that we can get away with using only 1,000 nails and that the house will still be structurally sound. Educators believe that if there are 4,000 electronic components in a television set, then it is okay to leave out 10 or 15 components. Educators believe that in constructing a television set it is okay for an electronics technician to just go ahead and leave out a few resistors and a few capacitors, and that the television set will still work. The fact that the picture is rolling constantly and that the TV. is unusable is of no consequence to teachers. The fact that the majority of young adults in America are unskilled, incompetent and incapable of functioning in adult society is of no consequence to teachers.
Some people say that educators have high standards, but in fact educators have no standards at all.
If educators had standards, they would make sure that everything that would be necessary to educate a child properly would be done. Educators insist on treating children as if they were products. Even that would not be so alarming if educators actually knew something about how to manufacture a perfect product. But educators themselves are so damaged and have so little knowledge of physical reality that if they were automobile manufacturers, they would try to produce cars with three wheels, not seeing that four wheels are essential to the functioning of the car. Children have very specific requirements if they are to thrive and prosper.