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"The Texas House (recently) passed Senate Bill 149, which creates a
graduation committee at each high school to assess whether students should
graduate even if they fail as many as two of the five end-of-course tests they
take as part of the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness.”
Source:
http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_27969676/bill-would-allow-high-school-diplomas-bad-test
In a declining society, bureaucracies have traditionally changed
definitions and requirements in order to obfuscate failure and to meet current
standards. In other words, to create the
illusion that they are meeting standards, they change the standards. The author
of “The Peter Principle” was an educator, and his book graphically demonstrates
the point; but predictably, educators dismissed it as humorous satire,
diminishing its impact on education
In today’s world, anyone who wants a high school, or a
college, diploma can get one. That is
the reason we see college graduates, especially in the liberal arts, busing
tables at Starbucks (at least the pay is better than McDonalds).
In ages past, overcoming one’s self was a much nobler
achievement than a college degree. That
was what Nietzsche meant when he coined the term “overman.” Actually, the term
was misinterpreted and initially called “superman,” its meaning corrupted by
the vagaries of translating an ancient manuscript of Zoroastrianism. Overcoming
one’s self has never been easy, and its achievement usually means isolating one’s
self from one’s roots, or natural-born legacy.
The prophesies of Zarathustra dealt with a segment of humankind’s
subtle and psychological quest for simplicity and mediocrity. Islam, a much simpler religion, eventually
replaced Zoroastrianism in the latter’s place of origin, Persia.
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