Paul Craig Roberts – paulcraigroberts.org Feb 12, 2026
Forty percent of US fourth graders cannot read. Even fewer can read at their grade level. One teacher responsible for 110 eighth graders reports that only two can read at grade level. https://www.bitchute.com/video/M8fPk94kCupI
Teachers report that kids are not capable of comprehending the content of written material, and that thinking and working out the answer to a problem is beyond their ability.
The 15 minute video in the URL above is worth your time. It shows us that we are raising a generation that is incapable of functioning in any job, or understanding domestic and foreign concerns that require public input in a democracy. In effect, without an educated and thinking public, there can be no democracy. Therefore, the failure of education means the replacement of our political system with something else.
The information in the video blames technology, especially artificial intelligence, which is beginning to undermine the comprehension powers of adults as well. The latter part of the video might strike some as a case for better teacher pay, but as the video makes clear pay is not the reason teachers are leaving education.
The adverse impact of artificial intelligence on learning is just the latest stage in the collapse of education. In previous articles, I have dated the decline in education from the destruction of neighborhood schools. People of the same socio-economic class fit together in more manageable ranges of ability. This makes it possible to hold all students in class to the same standard. Some do better than others, but there are not large differences that result in many who cannot fit within the standard range.
The neighborhood schools were destroyed by social engineering or the integration of different socio-economic classes under the same standard. The result was there were too many who could not meet the standard. Instead of questioning the policy, the blame was placed on racism. To avoid racism the educational standards were lowered. This let the Genie out of the bottle. Other deterioration followed, and the classroom degenerated into chaos and loss of teacher control. Today teachers say they are behavioral managers, not teachers.
Another adverse development was the creation of education departments in universities. In my early schooling years, education degrees were new on the scene. Those who taught my generation had degrees in the subjects that they taught. The math teacher had a math degree.The history teacher had a degree in history. The English teacher had an English degree, and so on. Most of the teachers were teaching because they love their subject, and their appreciation of the subject often passed on to the students and gave them an interest in math, history, language. Teachers had competence in the subject matter instead of in educational theory.
Today we already experience the decline in competence of graduates. Checkout clerks are not permitted to exchange for customers the equivalent in smaller bills for a larger one, because they don’t know how to do it. Customer service representatives are very limited in the help that they can provide. A real problem has to be moved up a level or two to a supervisor. To get an issue resolved today can require 30 minutes or one hour or half a day. I remember when issues were resolved in three minutes and that whoever answered the phone had the authority to resolve the issue. Today the time it takes to resolve the simplest issue is extraordinary.
As the current generation being educated is content to ask AI for answers, they will never be able to answer a question themselves. Everyone will think the same, which will be whatever AI answers. Therefore, those who control the database for AI will control understanding. Moreover, there will be no one capable of challenging the narrative in the AI database.
The consequences of this is extraordinary. Everyone will think the same. Diversity will not exist. Those who control the database will have total control. Humanity simply ceases to exist.
These are the real problems that we face, not whether we should destroy Iran for Israel, or whether Gaza should be turned into a resort. Does the fact that the real issues are unaddressed mean that the educational collapse has already gone so far that we can no longer think clearly and comprehend the real threats that we face?
Oleg Gordievsky: RI P the spy who helped avert a nuclear war
Story by Gavin Cordon • 10mo
n a July afternoon in 1985 two cars pulled up in a remote Russian lay-by in a cloud of dust as a dishevelled figure emerged from the bushes.
After a cursory exchange the man clambered into the boot of one the vehicles and they quickly drove off.
The man, sweating with fear in the boot of the Ford Sierra, was Colonel Oleg Gordievsky, a high-ranking KGB officer who had for more than a decade been passing the most closely-guarded secrets of Soviet intelligence to Britain’s MI6.
But now he was on the run after falling under suspicion as a traitor and the pick-up in the lay-by, close to the border with Finland, marked the final stage of an audacious operation to spirit him out of the country to safety.It began four days earlier when, in a prearranged signal, Mr Gordievsky appeared outside a bakery in Moscow’s Kutuzovsky Prospekt clutching a distinctive carrier bag from Safeway supermarket.
A man walking past him in the street eating a Mars bar and carrying a Harrods bag was the sign that his message had been received.Operation Pimlico was under way.
Under the elaborate escape plan, he had to give the KGB surveillance officers monitoring his flat the slip and head for the rendezvous point some 500 miles away, taking trains and finally hitchhiking.
Meanwhile MI6’s Moscow station chief, Raymond Asquith, and his deputy, Andrew Gibbs, were preparing to drive in the same direction, taking their wives and Mr Asquith’s 15-month-old daughter on the pretext that Mr Gibbs’ wife needed medical treatment in Finland.
The two intelligence officers were operating under diplomatic cover and the plan was predicated on the assumption that, under the Vienna Convention, their embassy cars would not be subjected to search.
It almost came to grief however when, as they left Leningrad, they found they were being ostentatiously tailed by the KGB. Only at the last minute were they able to briefly lose them and pull off into the lay-by undetected.But they still had to negotiate the border crossing.
After a nerve-shredding wait in which the two wives sought to distract the guards’ sniffer dogs by discreetly scattering crisps and changing the baby’s dirty nappy, they were finally waved through.
A blast of Sibelius’s Finlandia on the car stereo told Mr Gordievsky, still in the boot, that he was finally safe.
Had he remained in Russia he would almost certainly have been executed.hat MI6 was prepared to go to such lengths to get him out was a testament to the importance officials attached to the man widely regarded as the most significant spy of the later Cold War years.
In the early 1980s he was able to warn the West that fears among the paranoid Soviet leadership of a surprise Nato nuclear attack had brought the two sides perilously close to war, prompting US President Ronald Reagan to dial down his anti-Russian rhetoric.His intelligence was subsequently crucial in guiding Margaret Thatcher in her early contacts with the reformist Mikhail Gorbachev, whose ascent to power helped bring the Cold War to a close.
Born on October 10 1938 in Moscow, the son of a committed communist and officer in the NKVD (predecessor of the KGB), Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky had always appeared destined for a career in Soviet intelligence.
After studying at the prestigious Moscow State Institute of International Relations, where he showed an aptitude for languages, in 1961 he was recruited into the KGB following in the footsteps of his older brother, Vasili.n 1966, he was given his first foreign posting, operating under diplomatic cover out of the Soviet embassy in the Danish capital, Copenhagen.
The young spy found his first taste of Western freedom intoxicating, while the crushing of the Prague Spring by Russian tanks in 1968 intensified a growing disillusion with the Soviet system.
Danish intelligence, sensing a potential defector, attempted to recruit him but the approach failed. Nevertheless, when he returned to Copenhagen for a second posting, the Danes alerted MI6 in case it could be more successful.
A series of apparently chance meetings, including one at a badminton court, followed, in which the KGB man was tentatively sounded out.
In 1974, he finally agreed to work for MI6, going on to pass a stream of invaluable intelligence about the KGB’s organisation and operations to his MI6 handler in monthly meetings held in a safe flat.
That came to an abrupt end in 1978 when he was recalled to Moscow following his divorce from his first wife, a fellow KGB officer, and subsequent remarriage.
At that point the case went cold, it being considered too dangerous to maintain contact in the Russian capital.
So there was delight in MI6 headquarters when it emerged three years later that he was being posted to London.
When Mr Gordievsky slipped out of the Russian embassy and found a phone box to call the secret number he had been given in Copenhagen he was answered by recorded message from a familiar voice welcoming him to London. Contact had been resumed.
> It shows us that we are raising a generation that is incapable of functioning in any job, or understanding domestic and foreign concerns that require public input in a democracy
Delusion.
They aren’t required for jobs. They, and you, will be culled.
You do not have a democracy.
But perhaps the biggest delusion is “we are raising”. You aren’t raising anything. You hand your kids over to the system, who indoctrinate them. What do you expect to be the result? Putting aside everything else, the dictatorship will raise what it requires. And so it has. And that’s what you’ve got.
In the history of the world, nothing has done more harm to more humans than the internet. So why aren’t these “concerned” people calling for the complete removal of the internet, and its bastard child “mobile phones”, from their country? Answer: because they themselves make sheckels from it. It’s like taking a cut from the drug dealers selling fentanol to your own kids. The kids angle is why your overlords use them to silence you on unsocial media. Everyone loves to use kids to show themselves as “caring”. Look at oxfam. Look at any “charity”. Look at any “politician”. Look at “celebrities”. Look at the “church”. “Oh, the poor children. We care. We care. We care.” BS.
“Forty percent of US fourth graders cannot read. Even fewer can read at their grade level. ”
Is it any surprise when all of our schools are being swamped by low IQ turd worlders?
Dysgenics is easy–you make the people browner
He who controls the programming controls humanity. Crazy people ruin everything. Shit happens if you let it.
The avatar picture illustrates the cause & result of the collapse of American public education system.