tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4983334520933101277.post4563087050902913250..comments2024-02-16T06:29:33.587-08:00Comments on Welcome to " The Math UnderGround " -- Seattle & Washington State: Got Dough? How Billionaires rule our Schoolsdan dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536720661510933983noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4983334520933101277.post-89918367641792107122011-01-30T15:54:41.894-08:002011-01-30T15:54:41.894-08:00Thirty or forty to a classroom, sometimes two on a...Thirty or forty to a classroom, sometimes two on a computer, but six or eight was the norm. They woke up before six and stayed until six in the evening. They were sent to six or eight lessons in a day, but the teaching was at best perfunctory. The discipline that was enforced during this regime was a deliberate attempt to instil fear of disobedience and idelness into the hearts of the pupils.<br /><br />This harsh attitude toward the poor was due to the prevailing belief that even the slightest taste of achievement or extra free time would corrupt them so much that they would no longer be willing to work to support the extravagences of their masters.<br /><br />Now what greater temptation can there be to voluptuousness, than a place were every sense and appetite of which it is compounded, are fed and delighted; where the eyes are feasted wigth show, and the ears with music, and where gluttony and drunkenness are allured by every kind of dainty; nay where the finest women are exposed to view, and where the meanest person who can dress himself, may in some degree mix with his betters and thus perhaps satisfy his vanity as well as his love of pleasure?<br /><br />Does not the luxury of the rich add to the benefit of society as a whole, because their demands create jobs, while any hint of the poor doing but any more than getting by must be a terrorist's lie. For if the poor had enough for drinking and partying than they must be paid too much. After all, that is a part of their innate corruption. Who needs a public hanging when it gets reported by the news and a prison is as good home as a park bench.kprugmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02126184111625382040noreply@blogger.com