19th century Scottish
school oil on board painting «The Blind Piper» after painter J. Naysmyth (1808 - 1890).
Not exact matches
My tweet of Friday April 20, 2018 was typical of the reaction, «Actually Buhari was describing himself - he didn't get a good education and has no certificate; he's lived
on the Nigerian state all his life; he doesn't like work; and he's fixated
on Nigeria's
oil...» In truth, Buhari has not presented evidence of completing secondary
school - in all the elections he contested, including in 2015 he tendered affidavits to INEC and has declined to perform the simple task of providing his
school certificate; since he joined the army in 1961, he has been a «ward» of the Nigerian state and served in multiple states as military governor, as Minister of Petroleum and Chairman of NNPC
board under illegal military regimes; he was himself an unconstitutional military head of state; he was Chairman of Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) under the despotic and thieving dictator, Abacha; and is now back as civilian president.
Absalom Jones, 1810 Raphaelle Peale (1774 - 1825)
Oil on paper mounted to
board, 30 x 25 inches Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Absalom Jones
School, 1971
This «education» takes many forms: from blatant propaganda, like the UK government's  # 6 million «drowning puppy» ad campaign, the Obama administration's recent Climate Assessment Report and the one released by a group of compliant senior US military figures calling themselves CNA Military Advisory
Board, to more subtle brainwashing ranging from
school trips to wind farms and ice cream containers with pictures of wind farms
on the side and
oil company adverts illustrated with wind farms (to show they're not just «all about
oil») to, well, pretty much everything these days from supermarket delivery vehicles boasting about how much biofuel they use to Greenpeace campaign ads involving polar bears to Roger Harrabin's reporting for the BBC to Showtime's Years Of Living Dangerously...