From a historical perspective Bismarck’s Germany was much admired by the US at this time. Germany had adopted much of the US anti free trade policies. Many of the elite like Theodore Roosevelt and Madison Grant had finished their pre university education in Germany (ironically the classical education of the “critical thinker”). So there must have been an awareness of how Germany was forging ahead as a power by centralising state control and employing “new scientific methods. It’s easy to see how these ideas would be copied or adapted to the US. Was it just a case of keeping up with the Jones’es or was that the cover story? Bismarck was apparently a Rothschild stooge.
Was there any significant backlash at the time to these educational changes? Who was doing the critical thinking?
IDK, by that time, the Germans (Wundt & Co.) may have been experimenting on the American students to see if they could get fooled into believing that "knowledge" was "thinking." Roosevelt seems like a prime target. Once I became aware of the magical effect of the "cause-effect complex equivalence" linguistic form, I started re-analyzing things that I always took for granted in the past: Aristotle, Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, etc. and so much of it - like German Idealism - is just a linguistic house of cards. I thought Bismarck got kicked out because he was too in line with Lincoln, no?
He had implemented much of the economic thinking of the Lincoln administration and had the audacity to buy US war bonds much to the distaste of the English. His resignation was demanded by the English King Edward V11 who held sway over the new Kaiser Wilhelm 11 who was naive and easily persuaded that Bismarck was usurping his power as monarch. Bismarck was not playing ball with the English European geopolitical strategy or the free trade policy and his German unification had taken territory off the French. The Germans under Bismarck represented a danger to British hegemony so he had to go.
I would suspect that the Rothschilds being the prime European bankers of the era to multiple monarchs were probably able to leverage weight in the affair. Bismarck had some familial connection through intermarriage with them.
From a historical perspective Bismarck’s Germany was much admired by the US at this time. Germany had adopted much of the US anti free trade policies. Many of the elite like Theodore Roosevelt and Madison Grant had finished their pre university education in Germany (ironically the classical education of the “critical thinker”). So there must have been an awareness of how Germany was forging ahead as a power by centralising state control and employing “new scientific methods. It’s easy to see how these ideas would be copied or adapted to the US. Was it just a case of keeping up with the Jones’es or was that the cover story? Bismarck was apparently a Rothschild stooge.
Was there any significant backlash at the time to these educational changes? Who was doing the critical thinking?
yes, and the Venetians like to pull the strings on both sides
IDK, by that time, the Germans (Wundt & Co.) may have been experimenting on the American students to see if they could get fooled into believing that "knowledge" was "thinking." Roosevelt seems like a prime target. Once I became aware of the magical effect of the "cause-effect complex equivalence" linguistic form, I started re-analyzing things that I always took for granted in the past: Aristotle, Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, etc. and so much of it - like German Idealism - is just a linguistic house of cards. I thought Bismarck got kicked out because he was too in line with Lincoln, no?
He had implemented much of the economic thinking of the Lincoln administration and had the audacity to buy US war bonds much to the distaste of the English. His resignation was demanded by the English King Edward V11 who held sway over the new Kaiser Wilhelm 11 who was naive and easily persuaded that Bismarck was usurping his power as monarch. Bismarck was not playing ball with the English European geopolitical strategy or the free trade policy and his German unification had taken territory off the French. The Germans under Bismarck represented a danger to British hegemony so he had to go.
I would suspect that the Rothschilds being the prime European bankers of the era to multiple monarchs were probably able to leverage weight in the affair. Bismarck had some familial connection through intermarriage with them.
I was schooled for industrial efficiency, but that was long ago when the US had industry. I guess today's children are just trained for efficiency.
Sleight of hand seems have its roots in everything. For the educational system; replacing critical thinking with rigor.