The wealthy place great stock in the education of their children, but it is the wrong kind of education and thus the wrong kind of learning. All three levels of government; federal, state, and local, shape America's youth not through socially responsible and quality teaching but through administrative policy making and implementation. Students are taught what these levels of governments want them to learn, and so they will never learn in the classroom, for example, about America's sordid history and current state of domestic and foreign affairs.
Students are mostly taught the what and when of carefully screened historical events, but if they are taught the why it is the state's rationalized and dissembling explanations. For instance, the most authentic book on American history in my opinion has not been approved by any state in America for the curricula at the middle or high school level. 2 As for higher education one would be hard put to find an elite university that has not been funded and compromised by the state. Take Harvard as a case in point. It offers senior executive courses for military personnel and its law school churns out corporate lawyers.
And then there is religious education, which is not too different from secular education. Both start with young formative minds. Both fill those minds with doctrines, leaving little room left for critical reasoning to question those doctrines, including learning how to discover and distinguish factual knowledge from beliefs. Both help sustain America's warring and spying habits. While the power elite don't push religion as the powerless do, whatever religion the wealthy children get is no less compromised by the corpocracy.
Deformed by the Entertainment Industry
The entertainment industry preys on young people, rich or poor, seducing them with glorified war movies, violent video games, jingoistic patriotic displays at sporting events, and what have you. The industry cheapens real life and thus makes real battlefield deaths less horrifying if at all.
Deformed by the Corporate Media
Controlled by large corporations aided by the warfare state, the American people, young and old, are played for fools, more so I suspect the powerless than the powerful. America's warring is always minimized and defended as just and necessary. Young people grow up accepting and promoting war.
Conclusion
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