The 2025 Ontario budget has lots of big numbers, but fails to address funding shortfalls in core program areas. CCPA’s same-day budget analysis examined the broad trend, and in an article for The Toronto Star, we discussed postsecondary funding.
I think you’ve slightly missed my point. I am not saying the education system is the propaganda tool. I’m saying underfunding the education system allows the propaganda tools of those with money and an agenda of control to operate outside of school with less resistance.
Look at the US as a prime example. Critical thinking is worse, belief in the book of desert fairy tales is promoted instead, and when critical thinking is untrained, historical knowledge is poor, scientific literacy is low, and corporate propaganda is prevalent, it becomes way easier for corporations to implement their totalitarian agenda.
I got it, you can just also take China as an example. The story is more or less the same: Critical thinking is only allowed if it doesn’t contradicts the state narrative, belief in the leader’s thought first and foremost, historical knowledge is poor due to censorship (younger people have never heard about the Tiananmen Square massacre, for example, and barely know about genocides such as in Xiniang), state propaganda is prevalent, and it is easy for the Party to implement a totalitarian agenda.
I think you’ve slightly missed my point. I am not saying the education system is the propaganda tool. I’m saying underfunding the education system allows the propaganda tools of those with money and an agenda of control to operate outside of school with less resistance.
Look at the US as a prime example. Critical thinking is worse, belief in the book of desert fairy tales is promoted instead, and when critical thinking is untrained, historical knowledge is poor, scientific literacy is low, and corporate propaganda is prevalent, it becomes way easier for corporations to implement their totalitarian agenda.
I got it, you can just also take China as an example. The story is more or less the same: Critical thinking is only allowed if it doesn’t contradicts the state narrative, belief in the leader’s thought first and foremost, historical knowledge is poor due to censorship (younger people have never heard about the Tiananmen Square massacre, for example, and barely know about genocides such as in Xiniang), state propaganda is prevalent, and it is easy for the Party to implement a totalitarian agenda.
So it’s basically the same thing.