Posted on 08/05/2014 5:36:24 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
John Dewey is often blamed (by me and many others) for being the cause of the long, relentless decline in American public education. In fairness, he is only the famous face of a bigger story.
In the early years of the 20th century, as the Victorian era moved toward the wasteland of World War I, anxiety and ferment rippled across America and Europe. Unions were rising; revolution was preached in every capital; assassinations were common. There was genuine fear that civilization would fly apart.
Edward A. Ross, a sociologist, published an influential book in 1901: Social Control: a survey of the foundations of order, a title that tells you what was on everybody’s mind.
Ask the people who then controlled American society, and they would tell you there were far too many ignorant immigrants coming from Europe. There were far too many unruly peasants of all kinds. The Civil War had ended 35 years earlier; millions of Southerners who participated in that war were still alive and still bitter. Many people feared – and others hoped – that the South would indeed rise again. The slaves had been freed – but where would that lead? The South was vastly torn up, and engaged in the process of rebuilding. Good schools were rare. In this shell-shocked semi-vacuum, well-organized do-gooders could make a huge difference. John D. Rockefeller wrote the book.
These currents and crosscurrents created a strange and shocking convergence. The far left and the far right somehow wanted the same things in public education:
Old money wanted to maintain the status quo by keeping the poor in their place.....
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Get your kids out of the government schools!
Nothing has changed in that respect. Nothing!
From Investor’s Business Daily (IBD), August 27, 2008...
“[Bill] Ayers, now a tenured distinguished professor of education at UIC, works to educate teachers in socialist revolutionary ideology, urging that it be passed on to impressionable students.
One of Ayer’s descriptions for a course called ‘Improving Learning Environments’ says prospective K-12 teachers need to ‘be aware of the social and moral universe we inhabit and ... be a teacher capable of hope and struggle, outrage and action, teaching for social justice and liberation.
The Annenberg papers are quite extensive — 132 boxes containing 947 file folders with 70 linear feet of material. They undoubtedly contain more surprises regarding Obama’s relationship with Ayers, one of many relationships Obama has sought to hide.’...”
Article: Annenberg Papers: Putting On Ayers?
http://www.ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=304729375940845
From the very beginning government schooling was a single-payer socialist-entitlement. Nothing good can come from that.
**THAT** is the problem and always has been with government schooling. It can NOT be fixed!
God and our Founding Fathers have successfully been removed from public education and replaced with all of his heroes.
From The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America",
Charlotte Iserbyt is the consummate whistleblower! Iserbyt served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education, during the first Reagan Administration, where she first blew the whistle on a major technology initiative which would control curriculum in America's classrooms. Iserbyt is a former school board director in Camden, Maine and was co-founder and research analyst of Guardians of Education for Maine (GEM) from 1978 to 2000. She has also served in the American Red Cross on Guam and Japan during the Korean War, and in the United States Foreign Service in Belgium and in the Republic of South Africa. Iserbyt is a speaker and writer, best known for her 1985 booklet Back to Basics Reform or OBE: Skinnerian International Curriculum and her 1989 pamphlet Soviets in the Classroom: America's Latest Education Fad which covered the details of the U.S.-Soviet and Carnegie-Soviet Education Agreements which remain in effect to this day. She is a freelance writer and has had articles published in Human Events, The Washington Times, The Bangor Daily News, and included in the record of Congressional hearings.
How many parents know there are more than one "philosophy of education?" How many Americans know that it is impossible to obtain a licence to teach in the United States - anywhere - without adopting one - and only ONE - flavor of one school of thought - the emotively named "Progressive" model of experimentalism pushed by Dewey and his eugenics-promoting comrades. It is avowedly anti-American and, in fact, can hardly be described in English.
Gatto's book (online at the link above) however is not so focused on the boring techniques and dry and obscure work by Dewey. It starts with a comparison between how children are taught in the U.S. today with the education of young George Washington.
Gatto should be secretary of education, over the period that department is defunded and phased out.
Probably why these folks didn’t like Catholic schools. They educated millions of those poor folks, and still do.
The Catholic schools were also Prussian-model schools. When I attended Catholic schools my textbooks were the same as my Protestant neighbors. The publishing companies mere modified them slightly for the Catholic system.
BINGO!
The author of the article consistently fails to grasp that it is the education model that **causes** the problem. Only failure can arise from a single-payer, prison-like, and compulsory socialist entitlement that was the wet dream of the progressives of the 19th century.
I call it SS schooling ( single-payer and socialist-entitlement schooling)
If any child does manage to succeed it is in spite of his attendance at an SS school.
But the kids coming out of the Catholic Schools were actually educated; even minority kids, during segregation! It has only been recently that Catholic schools have devolved into the silliness of other schools, because there are more lay teachers now who are educated at the typical universities with all their propaganda.
The Carnegie unit trains people to ‘the bell.’ Hear the bell whistle, and change locations. Do something else.
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