Posted on 06/19/2013 1:17:50 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
It's sad to say but seems entirely true: nothing good comes from our Education Establishment. They are all socialists or perhaps fascists.
They never think in terms of "let's teach lots of wonderful stuff to kids of all ages." They think only in terms of diluting content. Here is their apparent plan: teach less and teach it badly so kids will dislike the subject forever. (Reform Math proves that point.)
Americans really ought to think of their public schools as occupied territory, like France in 1943. We need more Resistance. Killing Common Core is a good start.
People are always asking how do we improve pubic schools. The tone is one of puzzled surprise that we seem to have these odd, unexpected problems, like some blight on a tree. We need clearer thinking at this point. There are lots of natural ailments that show up naturally, diseases, tornados, and such. Our education malaise is not like that. It's man-made, planned, deliberate, systematic, and subversive. Some really ruthless SOBs invent this stuff, and then sneak it into the schools. Get rid of these people and we'll have a wonderful renaissance.
NOTE: The biggest problem that is easily identified and corrected remains bogus reading instruction. Here's a quick briefing on that problem: http://www.edarticle.com/article.php?id=38556
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There's half your problem right there...
I don’t see the mystery. teach them that the new religion is diversity, dumb them down so that they watch “ellen” rather than ben Bernanke talk about how he is manipulating our economy.
job done
Okay, I’m suitably mortified, but the message remains the same.
Just to tweak the libs, I wore my Cabelas hat to the kid’s graduation last week. No one bit.. :(
Although I agree with much of what you have to say about education, I'll quibble with a couple of points. First, education is not all about teaching; it's about learning. Yes, teachers have a role, but most of the time teachers are valuable primarily as motivators, less as transmitters of knowledge. Second, I disagree that getting rid of a few ingrates at the top would change anything. The problem is institutional, and changing the leaders of an institution -- especially an institution as large and bureaucratic as our current education system -- rarely has a major or lasting effect.
What's needed is a new system. As Clayton Christensen points out, new systems usually arrive via "disruptive innovation", where a new approach quietly develops and improves in a small, underserved niche until it suddenly bursts upon the scene, burying the old system. Think digital vs. film, Starbucks vs. home-made coffee, PCs vs. minicomputers.
Some entrepreneur needs to understand deeply why people learn, how people learn, and what they need and want to learn, and then build an effective and replicable new system -- probably exploiting technology -- around that knowledge.
RE: “Second, I disagree that getting rid of a few ingrates at the top would change anything.’
Not a few. Probably a few thousand. These are Dewey’s Spawn. They are a cult, and determine everything that happens. Their garbage in, their garbage out. They ARE the institution.
I really do believe that INTENT is crucial. If these collectivists intend to dumb down the schools, the country will get dumber. It has gotten dumber.
Correct. Bureaucracies cannot reform themselves. The answer is free enterprise and home schooling via the Internet.
I agree that they are enemy territory, but public schools aren’t going away. We need more good Christian teachers to move in and move up - take them back over from the inside. If the commies could do it so can we.
Good idea. Can it happen?
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