Education for mediocrity - preserving the status quo

Why are governments and the elite so determined that universal education should be an education for mediocrity? Why are creativity and curiosity frowned upon? Why is excellence stamped out in the search for what they call 'equality'. The answer is frighteningly simple (c.f. Chomsky - I'll check the reference later). THEY are only interested in maintaining the status quo of a small, rich and powerful elite and a huge uneducated mass they can manipulate into working for them the way THEY want, buying the products THEY want to sell us, fighting the wars THEY want to play at, suffering the poverty THEY want to inflict on us, powerless unthinking consumers of the pap THEY sell us. We are blinded by the mediocre education THEY provide but which we pay for. We are taught NOT to see, NOT to think, NOT to react.

In recognition of http://www.ukauthors.com/

A plug here for http://www.ukauthors.com/
They are really good people. They're even crazy enough to publish MY poetry :))
I'm following them on Twitter too.

Taking down the king is dead

Sorry if you haven't read it yet but I've deleted the king is dead. I'm sending it to a poetry competition and I have to follow their rules.

However, I am working on new poetry now and I will share that when it's ready.