The following post is from this past April:
I've been putting off writing this post, this book description actually, because unless the reader is at least aware that a Progressive education is a totally different animal than how American children were educated up until the beginning of the twentieth century then what is written in this book will shock even the best of conservatives and probably be ignored by everyone else. Also, unless one has children of their own and thus a heightened concern for where America is heading, then they are probably just not going to be interested. The book is Crimes Of The Educators, How Utopians are using Government Schools To Destroy American Children and it is written by Samuel Blumenfeld and Alex Newman.
Most readers of this post are probably gone now after merely reading the book's title. I'm familiar with Mr. Blumenfeld for I read his book NEA: Trojan Horse In American Education back when it was first published in 1984. Some readers of this post are certainly familiar with him, for his writing and expertise on the Homeschooling movement, and I'm sure that many if not most homeschooling parents chose that direction after reading Dr. Blumenfeld's books and other information on the Progressive influence on American children.
Let me give you a Thomas Jefferson quote that prefaces the entire book "Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God; that they are not to be violated but with His wrath?"
We know who John Dewey is right, at least those of us fifty years and older? Well, actually we don't, even though Barry Goldwater gave this warning over a half century ago in his book Conscience Of A Conservative..."In the main, the trouble with the American education is that we have put into practise the educational philosophy expounded by John Dewey...responding to the Deweyite attack on methods of teaching, we have encouraged the teaching profession to be more concerned with how a subject is taught than with what is taught...(and)...we have forgotten that the proper function of the school is to transmit the cultural heritage of one generation to the next generation as to make them (the students) capable of absorbing ancient learning and applying it to the problems of today."
Dewey's purpose in life seems to have been to dumb down American education in order to make the populace less individualistic and more controllable as a socialist utopian society is pursued. This from the book..."The method of achieving this was by simply changing the way children are taught to read in their schools. The utopians got rid of the traditional intensive phonics method of instruction and imposed a look-say, sight, or whole-word method..." There it is! The book is filled with SAT statistics, pertinent anecdotes and teacher testimonies, descriptions by neurologists on how the brain functions in reading, historical failures from 'fad of the year' teaching methods, the disaster of psychotropic drugs to cure ADD and ADHD, Big Brother and data collection, and concludes with an appendix of an article written by John Dewey in 1898 proving the author's thesis.
President Obama's answer in 2013 to the latest...dismal at best... national test results was, according to the authors, "to give all US three- and four-year olds access to 'high quality' preschool education." Their comment on this was..."The new program would be run at the state level, with federal oversight. In other words, the dumbing down would begin earlier." Big surprise here, huh?
There are dozens of references to Communism, Karl Marx and Socialism in this book of 321 pages, for as the authors write..."Socialism's objective had been from the very beginning to remake man from the competitive individual of a capitalist society to a cooperative being in a collectivist state." Chapter 14 is titled Cooperative Learning: Communist Ideology In the Classroom. A quote from H. L. Mencken is given..."There is no idea so stupid that you can't get some professor to believe it." This is part of Communist methodology...and we can see it in the global warming scam.
So the book is there for those who are interested but quite frankly it takes time and effort to read and investigate like this and few seem up to it even though our nation collapses more each and every day right before our very eyes. It's so much easier to just vote for Donald Trump.
I've been putting off writing this post, this book description actually, because unless the reader is at least aware that a Progressive education is a totally different animal than how American children were educated up until the beginning of the twentieth century then what is written in this book will shock even the best of conservatives and probably be ignored by everyone else. Also, unless one has children of their own and thus a heightened concern for where America is heading, then they are probably just not going to be interested. The book is Crimes Of The Educators, How Utopians are using Government Schools To Destroy American Children and it is written by Samuel Blumenfeld and Alex Newman.
Most readers of this post are probably gone now after merely reading the book's title. I'm familiar with Mr. Blumenfeld for I read his book NEA: Trojan Horse In American Education back when it was first published in 1984. Some readers of this post are certainly familiar with him, for his writing and expertise on the Homeschooling movement, and I'm sure that many if not most homeschooling parents chose that direction after reading Dr. Blumenfeld's books and other information on the Progressive influence on American children.
Let me give you a Thomas Jefferson quote that prefaces the entire book "Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God; that they are not to be violated but with His wrath?"
We know who John Dewey is right, at least those of us fifty years and older? Well, actually we don't, even though Barry Goldwater gave this warning over a half century ago in his book Conscience Of A Conservative..."In the main, the trouble with the American education is that we have put into practise the educational philosophy expounded by John Dewey...responding to the Deweyite attack on methods of teaching, we have encouraged the teaching profession to be more concerned with how a subject is taught than with what is taught...(and)...we have forgotten that the proper function of the school is to transmit the cultural heritage of one generation to the next generation as to make them (the students) capable of absorbing ancient learning and applying it to the problems of today."
Dewey's purpose in life seems to have been to dumb down American education in order to make the populace less individualistic and more controllable as a socialist utopian society is pursued. This from the book..."The method of achieving this was by simply changing the way children are taught to read in their schools. The utopians got rid of the traditional intensive phonics method of instruction and imposed a look-say, sight, or whole-word method..." There it is! The book is filled with SAT statistics, pertinent anecdotes and teacher testimonies, descriptions by neurologists on how the brain functions in reading, historical failures from 'fad of the year' teaching methods, the disaster of psychotropic drugs to cure ADD and ADHD, Big Brother and data collection, and concludes with an appendix of an article written by John Dewey in 1898 proving the author's thesis.
President Obama's answer in 2013 to the latest...dismal at best... national test results was, according to the authors, "to give all US three- and four-year olds access to 'high quality' preschool education." Their comment on this was..."The new program would be run at the state level, with federal oversight. In other words, the dumbing down would begin earlier." Big surprise here, huh?
There are dozens of references to Communism, Karl Marx and Socialism in this book of 321 pages, for as the authors write..."Socialism's objective had been from the very beginning to remake man from the competitive individual of a capitalist society to a cooperative being in a collectivist state." Chapter 14 is titled Cooperative Learning: Communist Ideology In the Classroom. A quote from H. L. Mencken is given..."There is no idea so stupid that you can't get some professor to believe it." This is part of Communist methodology...and we can see it in the global warming scam.
So the book is there for those who are interested but quite frankly it takes time and effort to read and investigate like this and few seem up to it even though our nation collapses more each and every day right before our very eyes. It's so much easier to just vote for Donald Trump.
