Posted on 05/13/2010 12:08:57 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
"Years ago I wrote a sci-fi story in which disease wiped out the thousands of people living in a huge space station. All the technology continued on autopilot; sensors, missiles, and robots perfectly defended the space station. Humans approaching the station were attacked as enemy invaders.
The station became a type of doomsday machine. All the inhabitants had been killed. New arrivals would be killed.
I certainly wasn’t thinking about our public schools at that time but now I see a creepy similarity between what happened to that space station and what happened to this country’s Education Establishment. Both are running on an unintended autopilot and no longer serve the purposes for which they were constructed. Neither can be reasoned with or even approached....We can look back a century and observe our doomsday machine in creation." ----------- "How American Public Education Became A Doomsday Machine," a history article on Canada Free Press
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
Separation of school and State...
A big part is that many of the kids just don’t care.
Your pop-up ads just crashed my browser.
Too bad the truth is lost on so many people.
Like him or not, Marshall Fritz (I do hope I recall his name correctly) was onto something with his Separation of School and State thing.
I dream of the day when millions of parents wake up and yank their children from the clutches of the educrats, causing immediate cessation of that behemoth's rampage against education, leadership and entrepreneurship...then, I realize I'm awake and it's just a dream.
The government schools were never well-intentioned. There was always an agenda behind them, beginning with Mann, the Unitarians, and the Owenites.
The model is the mistake. The system has to be delegitimized and forced to collapse. Government should never be involved in education - and we have a perfect example of why.
Here’s a shorter report:
In 2010, Barak Obama is calling for fixing the public education system by giving us the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which will fix the 2001 GW Bush and Ted Kennedy legislation called “No Child Left Behind,” which was supposed to fix a system supposedly already fixed by a 1994 piece of federal legislation called “Goals 2000,” which was supposed to fix a system already fixed by “America 2000,” which was a 1991 response during the Bush administration to a 1983 federal report on education called “A Nation at Risk, which was published a full four years after Jimmy Carter fixed the nation’s public school system by first establishing a cabinet-level Department of Education in 1979.
It is amazing how many government “fixes” are designed to fix a “fix” that was typically created by a government “fix!”
May I just respond this way: when did kids ever care? Hasn’t it always been a battle? But that is all the reason why we need super-clever educators who can trick and cajole kids into welcoming education. What we have instead are educators not sincerely interested in education, and I always sense that they magnify all the negatives for their own purposes.
By “your” you mean CanadaFreePress? Well, that site is like the wild west. It’s sad that the most American site of all should be Canadian.
FR’s very own wintertime posted this rant/article about public schools today, hmm - the stars are aligned!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2512917/posts
Demoralization, Government Schools, A Plan for RE-moralization of our Nation
She’s got a plan. Education is key, KEY, KEY!!!!
Yep, and don't forget the big daddy of them all, Karl Marx.
I’ve homeschooled kids - my own and helped with others. It doesn’t take “clever educators” - it takes adults who are reasonably well-read and willing to learn more, who love the children, and are sincerely motivated.
That’s all it takes.
When I homeschooled kids, I didn’t even have a high school diploma. When they finally had to go to school at one point, they were in the 95% or higher of everything (except one was so-so in math) and went into the gifted and talented class, or whatever it was called. The so-so in math one went to the state finals spelling bee.
And I was a dropout/kickout from highschool, not a clever educator.
No, it doesn’t. I tutor kids all the time.
Kids know if the one who is teaching them cares about them and is exciting about teaching the subject.
All the other stuff is details. Of course, if kids are poorly raised, off the deep end etc, no one can teach them except people trained in that stuff or who have an ability to teach undisciplined/etc kids.
One out of control kid will make it near impossible to teach the other kids.
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