Posted on 10/29/2015 1:11:53 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
Reflect for a few minutes on your experience in school, especially if you went to a public school.
Were you taught as much as you could have been taught? Were your schools set up to increase your learning and your mastery of basic skills? When you were in elementary school, did the school teach you to read right away? If a store was selling something for $10 and now there is a 15% discount, do you know what the new price is? If you read in a book that the Civil War occurred in the middle of the 19th century, do you know what years that is, even roughly?
The point is, our public schools are run by the same sort of people who inhabit the Democratic Party and Obama's federal government. They are obsessive control freaks about all the wrong details. Here's the pattern. They don't want to teach you knowledge. They want to tell you what to think and how to feel about everything.
When it comes to something important like counting to 200, learning the history of the country, or anything else that you can easily teach children, these ideologues get all wobbly. Reading is suddenly beyond their wildest dreams. (Instead, they've got ways to teach reading so that children in the sixth grade can hardly read at all.)
The point here is you can learn a lot about these people by the schools they set up, and by how good a job they did with you personally. For many years, you lived in a world that they created and shaped. You experienced their capabilities at first hand. How good a job did they do?
Were you educated in such a way that you were using all your talents and resources? Were you developed and pushed to do better and better work? Isn't that every child's birthright? You should be taken to the limit that you are capable of, shouldn't you? Did that happen in your case?
Typically, in the United States half the children do not even learn to read, at least not comfortably and fluently. The majority of children never become adept with basic math. As far as general knowledge is concerned, Americans are becoming increasingly empty-headed. Pollsters ask college kids: how many stars on the American flag? Where is Japan on a map or for that matter where's Alaska on a map? Kids don't know because nobody ever expected them to learn and retain facts. You may think this is an article about education—not exactly. It's about malfeasance and misgovernance. It's about extremist ideologues who are perfectly happy to dumb you down because they want to keep control of you.
All you have to do is ask, in your personal contacts with these people, the ones running your schools, do you feel they were taking good care of you? Do you feel they were concerned about you, and trying to give you the best possible preparation for the rest of your life?
If you suspect that your education was flawed and substandard from start to finish, take the time to understand why this happened. Maybe the people in charge were never primarily concerned about your future but about their future. They are trying to build a certain kind of society, and you have to be trained to fit into it. You have to be pushed, pulled, flattened and molded so that you can take your place in their Brave New World.
So if you want to look into the hearts and minds of the Democrat Party, the Liberal Establishment and the Media Elite, all you have to do is look into the hearts and minds of the people who ran your schools. In particular, principals, administrators, superintendents, and officials at all levels up to Arne Duncan and the president.
A book appeared around 1990 titled "The deliberate dumbing down of America." What a shocking thought that is. But can you disprove it from your own experience? Or, when you look back, do you see clearly that your schools were in fact trying to dumb you down?
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Bruce Deitrick Price/Improve-Education.org
Just my own experience here. When I was first involved in home schooling back in 2009 I ended up doing the high school curriculum and it took me until last year to finish it. I already had a high school diploma from a public school but my education was sorely lacking.
Feel free to read my posts from 2009 and see how I’ve changed.
So I suppose I’m proof of what you’re saying here.
Good luck American teenagers and millennials. You are going to experience the financial effect of this generation of “leaders” shifting the outcome of their economic idiocy onto you. Read up on being a serf. It will be your survival guide.
It’s also why the number of H-1B visas are on the rise. Our schools, from bottom to top are not in the business to teach anymore. But rather dumb down the population to make it easier to take over our country vis-Ã -vis a bloodless war.
Best line from “Good Will Hunting”, IMHO...
Will to Harvard Twerp: “...you dropped 150 grand on a f’ing education you could have got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library!”
Kind of in line with your advice...Good, BTW...
Why don’t you run it down for us? Tell us the main things you have learned from your experiences and how that shows that you are proof of what I’m saying here.
The most important things I’ve learned are basic math and reading skills. I know that sounds sad but I didn’t know how to make change before and I hated to read. After I did the reading classes I learned why things are spelled a certain way and how that relates to their meaning. With the ‘look say’ way of reading every word was totally unrelated to another word.
Like what’s the relationship between ‘total’ and ‘totally’? Do they have a similar meaning? I was never taught that in school.
I never saw a multiplication table until I got the home school curriculum. Now I just know the answers to some basic math questions instead of having to make groups and figure it out every time - which was something I never did so I would just use a calculator for things like 12x12.
And etc.
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