I’ve collected a number of excellent lectures, given by Samuel Blumenfeld, at various home schooling seminars..
Blumenfeld exposes the agenda of the early proponents of the Whole Language movement, which, contrary to some reports, did not start in the 1960’s; but rather, began to gather steam around the turn of the 20th century..
These educators were dyed in the wool Socialists, out of the University of Chicago... their methodology first permeated the Teachers Colleges, particularily in the Mid West...
Speaking personally, I was exposed to the Look Say (Whole Language) methodology in the Dick and Jane Books..in 1955.
If it had not been for my Grandmother, who taught me how to sound out words...I would never have learned how to read. I would have joined the multitudinous ranks of the Functionally Illiterate.
At any rate, Blumenfeld has done the historical Research..these lectures are invaluable as a resource to fully understand what the Left has done to our children.
Anyone who listens to these lectures will come to see that the only thing that Conservatives MUST do is take our children OUT OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM. We can do a better job homeschooling, educating our children, than the public schools can ever do.
Here are the lectures, in Mp3 format (they are joined together in Zipped files, to make it easier to download.) Here’s the link =
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=ae0f1a52cdf6bd4175a4fc82078ae6c8dda4e223c272b95cf7e866bfb1230ce0
When I met Sam Blumenfeld some years ago, I thanked him for teaching my little girl to read. I used Blumenfeld’s book “ALPHAPHONICS”...my daughter was four years old at the time, I spent 20 minutes per day with her and this book..at the end of almost 5 months, she could READ ANYTHING I gave to her.
“ALPHAPHONICS” works! Instead of spending thousands of dollars, and years teaching students reading basics...this book costs 25 dollars and within a few months... ANYONE can learn how to read with “ALPHAPHONICS”.
Here’s Sam Blumenfeld’s Website for more information = http://www.howtotutor.com/
Thanks for this post. Blumenfeld is a great man and America’s premier educator.
As a practical matter, I still believe we must also think in terms of improving the public schools. One easy way is to tell the people there about Blumenfeld. If every school teacher read “Victims of Dick and Jane” or heard these lectures, you would see a huge improvement.