New World Order: “In your face, peasants!”

For most people, the field of education is now a big swamp of claims and counterclaims that never seem to be resolved. People give up trying to make sense of it all. It's a safe bet that the Education Establishment likes this surrender just fine.

A baffled public will be a passive public that pays taxes but otherwise shuts up. If the public is confused, they can't possibly mount a resistance to the foolishness in public schools.

If people want reform, they have to understand the basic issues. This is not difficult to do. Here is a quick look at the grim reality suggested by the phrase "In your face, peasants."

FIRST of all, starting in 1931, all public schools used Look-say to teach reading. This method is also known as Whole Word, Whole Language, Balanced Literacy, and many others. No matter what the name is, it doesn't work, not in large doses or small doses. The basic idea is that children are told to see English words as graphic designs and memorize them one by one as you might memorize astrology symbols, weather symbols, or electrical symbols. (In the traditional school children learn to read phonetically in the first year and then they use reading as a way to explore geography, history, science, etc. That's the world we need to reclaim ASAP.)

SECOND, all of math education is now conducted under various curricula contained within the phrase "reform" math. We hear a lot of talk about the meaning, the theory, and the highfalutin significance of this or that numerical operation. At the end of the year, however, children know much less math than they used to. I assume this is by design. New Math and Reform Math incorporated all the least efficient ways to teach and do math.

THIRD, all of contemporary education is disfigured by an idea called Constructivism (a.k.a. inquiry and discovery). Teachers must not teach directly. Children must learn for themselves. This can happen, of course, but not at a rapid rate. Constructivism relegates the teacher to a marginal role (the so-called facilitator). The idea of giving the children a collection of knowledge is now regarded as obsolete. With this one policy (that is, promoting Constructivism), our public schools reduce all but the self-starters to dunces.

FOURTH, all the bad ideas in the 20th century have been rolled into one big ball of malarkey called Common Core Curriculum. It's a huge government takeover; it seems to be totalitarian in intent; and you know it's completely bogus because Common Core perpetuates the terrible trio of Whole Word, Reform Math and Constructivism (along with a long miscellany of new and old gimmicks). Case closed at this point.

FIFTH and last, even as public education is debased, our "free press" has ceased to function as intended by the Founding Fathers. The press doesn't want to be free. It wants to be the life partner of the Democratic Party. If a bit of information is not part of the official White House story, that information will rarely appear in major newspapers. In particular, the media does not explain the many flaws and fallacies seen in typical educational practice.

There is a news blackout on the insights that parents need. It is precisely this news blackout that enables the New World Order to say, "In your face, peasants."

in her new book "Credentialed to Destroy," attorney Robin Eubanks lays out a comprehensive picture of what that phrase implies:

"What is being marketed as the Common Core national standards and accompanying ed reforms is actually a planned, centrally coordinated, interrelated, complete reorganization of American education….For now though we should best view education as a re-imagined means for an international political class and their business cronies to obtain the same type of riches and control as what the nomenklatura sought globally under Communism….We either have to confront what is really going on in American and global education directly and stop this nonsense once and for all, or it will destroy us.….An alliance of government and its bureaucracies, plus colleges and universities and big business, controlling and planning our economy for their benefit cannot deliver prosperity."

Of course, for brevity at its most brilliant, you can't beat Orwell's "Ignorance is Strength." That's what our Education Establishment is trying to sell us now. Under-educating children will somehow make them and the country stronger. This idiocy is the very essence of "In your face, peasants."

To fix the situation, we just have to reverse all the bad tendencies that have loomed up in the last 75 years. Don't accept ignorance and illiteracy as normal. This country has hundreds of great private schools. Copy their blueprint, that's a simple enough solution. Or look carefully at what our public schools are doing and then do the opposite. There seem to be few good ideas left in public education and that's why the whole sad spectacle ends up shouting at us: "In your face, peasants."

ARTICLE: "Top 10 Worst Ideas in Education" (i.e., what to dump) http://www.improve-education.org/id83.ht...

ARTICLE: "Obama Care and Common Core – both are bad to the bone" http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014...

ARTICLE: "Innumeracy by Design" http://www.edarticle.com/articles/27447/...#.U167KNy6Rj4

FIRST of all, starting in 1931, all public schools used Look-say to teach reading.

I'm skeptical. I don't think schools were anywhere near centralized enough at the time to put such a policy into effect.

Agree 100% on the idiocy of Look-say, whatever you want to call it.

There are kids you can't keep from learning to read, no matter what you do. I was one of them, learning to read at the age of 3.

There are other kids who will learn to read okay no matter what method you use to teach them. They're not really a problem either.

Then there are those, a considerable number, who would learn reading just fine if taught using a sensible method, but flounder with the idiotic ones. Abandoning this group to the tender non-mercies of faddists is unforgivable.

Rant off.

Euthanize public education. Put it out of its misery.

19th century fossil, relic of Bismarck’ s Kulturkamfp, permanently perverted by Dewey system.

The more Charter Schools ally with Homeschoolers, the quicker employers will refuse to accept public school certificates of functional lobotomy.

SECOND, all of math education is now conducted under various curricula contained within the phrase "reform" math.

True. However, "New Math" goes back about 50 years. I was in the first full class subjected to it in my school district.

Unlike reading, for me how math was taught was important, and New Math most definitely wasn't what I needed.

IOW, there ain't nothing new about this idiocy, except possibly its variety.

[Art.] If the public is confused, they can't possibly mount a resistance to the foolishness in public schools.

Even if their kids are getting bent over by predatory pederasts who are riding the strong arms of SIECUS, PFLAG, and the NEA into the classroom to scout for talent/chicken dinner?

The financial elites, i.e., international banking, new world order, etc., were historically frustrated by the religious and moral underpinnings of universities under the auspices of Christianity.

In the 19th century, they began the process of founding - and funding - their own universities outside the purview of any Church.

Thus the satanic secular university movement was set in motion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company_College
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe_University_Frankfurt

etc....

At such colleges, the elites were the ultimate overseers, and could therefore establish their own moral code to be taught, and could establish their own directions for research.

These same elite financiers developed the idea of communism as their preferred system of governing, and they institute communist governments where possible, while they, the true rulers, remain in the shadows as simply financiers that communist elites receive their financing - and orders - from.

RE: “I don’t think schools were anywhere near centralized enough at the time to put such a policy into effect.”

I think it was the progressives who were centralized enough and organized enough to push this thing into the schools. That is, the schools didn’t pull the policy into the school. The far-left pushed it in there, by the simple device of overwhelming all opposition. You see the same pattern now with Common Core. Schools are not being asked, they are being ordered.

I think it was Flesch in his first Johnny book who mentioned the mysterious disappearance of all phonics texts from American libraries. This is really creepy. But all it would take would be a cell of Commies who would just methodically steal the books and burn them. Six months later teachers can’t even find a good book on the subject.

American schools have always had tremendous diversity, for good and bad. But all the estimates I see suggest the first look-say books were introduced during 1930; more than half of the schools were covered by 1931; and by 1932 and 33, it was a mostly done deal. This was the depth of the depression. But the schools systematically destroyed millions of good reading books, and spent a fortune on new ones. What can you conclude but that the progressives really, really, really wanted look-say because they knew it would make the country weaker.

I will defer to your research. Before my time, anyway. As I said earlier, I quite literally cannot remember not knowing how to read.

My Mom used to have a picture of me bent over a book in the backyard, utterly absorbed, at the age of 3. It was The Jungle Book. No pictures.

Made no difference to me how they taught reading. Though I still remember being punished for hiding The Lord of the Rings inside my “reading workbook” in 2nd grade.

There I was, reading when I was supposed to be learning to read. Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird had a similar experience. Learning to read in an unapproved way.

LOL

Even though the RC Church had a lot of corruption, and there were relationships with the international banking families, what the “banksters” really don’t like is the Bible.

They wanted all reference to the Bible removed from universities, which was not practically possible in those years in Christian-run schools.

So they took to founding secular universities. Some Jewish financiers initially had a Jewish influence in their endowments, notably Jacob Schiff’s, but of course, given the godlessness of globalist elites in general, secularism drowned out any significant true Scriptural influence in the overall institutions. Of course, they will maintain departments that study from the perspectives of Judaism or the various Christian denominations, but over time their teachings became essentially blended with the globalist agenda.

It’s rather shocking to consider that the Ivy League schools like Harvard and Princeton actually have Christian backgrounds, since all their efforts during the 20th century and continuing are aimed at a subtle redefinition of Christianity to blend it in with atheism and rejection of God.

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