America is what it is today because of two primary influences....the modern Christian church and our educational system.....and that's not intended as a compliment. It's the latter that I want to address today. I was finally able to settle in to my chair about 6 o'clock in the evening. I booted up my computer and turned on Mark Levin who said that he was going to focus his program on education. I wanted to change topics from recent posts so I'll do the same as Mark with this post from July of 2016.
My own primary and secondary education was in Catholic schools. There was plenty of discipline, God was referenced, the Plymouth colony and Jamestown were honored, George Washington was a wonderful man, Thomas Jefferson was a genius, Benjamin Franklin was wise, Davy Crockett was brave and both Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee were great generals. They didn't teach me anything about sex except biological information. President Kennedy was assassinated and there were no counselors in school the next day. I got cut from the baseball team, and there was a valedictorian who did better than everyone else.
Our son had a similar good experience and education in his Christian elementary, public high school and a conservative private Christian college. He's never had any problem with logic, rational thought or analysis. In fact when he went to law school he excelled. Unfortunately, the American educational experience is as split down the middle today as we as a people are split in our political opinions. Hmmm. I wonder if there's a correlation? You bet there is!
Crimes Of The Educators, How Utopians are using Government Schools To Destroy American Children is a book written by educator Samuel Blumenfeld and journalist Alex Newman. The Progressive education of most today is a totally different animal than that which all American children experienced up until the beginning of the twentieth century. Most conservatives are very well aware of this but this book will shock even the better informed!
Admittedly, if one is not already concerned with our education system to begin with, then they will have no interest in reading the book and probably exited this post after merely reading the book's title. I'm familiar with Samuel Blumenfeld for I read his book NEA: Trojan Horse In American Education back when it was first published in 1984. Some readers are already familiar with him from his books and expertise on the homeschooling movement.
Here's 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 Samuel Blumenfeld and Alex Newman'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.
My own primary and secondary education was in Catholic schools. There was plenty of discipline, God was referenced, the Plymouth colony and Jamestown were honored, George Washington was a wonderful man, Thomas Jefferson was a genius, Benjamin Franklin was wise, Davy Crockett was brave and both Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee were great generals. They didn't teach me anything about sex except biological information. President Kennedy was assassinated and there were no counselors in school the next day. I got cut from the baseball team, and there was a valedictorian who did better than everyone else.
Our son had a similar good experience and education in his Christian elementary, public high school and a conservative private Christian college. He's never had any problem with logic, rational thought or analysis. In fact when he went to law school he excelled. Unfortunately, the American educational experience is as split down the middle today as we as a people are split in our political opinions. Hmmm. I wonder if there's a correlation? You bet there is!
Crimes Of The Educators, How Utopians are using Government Schools To Destroy American Children is a book written by educator Samuel Blumenfeld and journalist Alex Newman. The Progressive education of most today is a totally different animal than that which all American children experienced up until the beginning of the twentieth century. Most conservatives are very well aware of this but this book will shock even the better informed!
Admittedly, if one is not already concerned with our education system to begin with, then they will have no interest in reading the book and probably exited this post after merely reading the book's title. I'm familiar with Samuel Blumenfeld for I read his book NEA: Trojan Horse In American Education back when it was first published in 1984. Some readers are already familiar with him from his books and expertise on the homeschooling movement.
Here's 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 Samuel Blumenfeld and Alex Newman'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.
