Posted on 12/15/2020 5:09:47 PM PST by linMcHlp
The book (title above) by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, was reviewed by Samuel Blumenfeld for WND, and his article:
https://www.wnd.com/1999/12/2877/
was published on December 2, 1999.
The source URL goes to Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt's website.
Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt's new book, "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America," is without doubt one of the most important publishing events in the annals of American education in the last hundred years. John Dewey's "School and Society," published in 1899, set American education on its course to socialism. Rudolf Flesch's "Why Johnny Can't Read," published in 1955, informed American parents that there was something terribly wrong with the way the schools were teaching children to read, and my own book, "NEA: Trojan Horse in American Education," published in 1984, explained in great detail how and why the decline in public education was taking place.
But Iserbyt has done what no one else wanted or could do. She has put together the most formidable and practical compilation of documentation describing the well-planned "deliberate dumbing down" of American children by their education system...
Iserbyt decided to compile this book because, as a "resister" to what is going on in American education, she was being constantly told that she was taking things out of context. The book, she writes, "was put together primarily to satisfy my own need to see the various components which led to the dumbing down of the United States of America assembled in chronological order -- in writing. Even I, who had observed these weird activities taking place at all levels of government, was reluctant to accept a malicious intent behind each individual, chronological activity or innovation, unless I could connect it with other, similar activities taking place at other times." ..
bttt
Every face mask is proof of this.
Yes! Anyone I see out in fresh air with a mask...I know their IQ.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1657417/posts
It costs a fortune to get dumbed down by institutions of “higher learning”.
reminds me of my old Hippie days...."Even I...was reluctant to accept a malicious intent behind each individual, chronological activity or innovation, unless I could connect it with other, similar activities taking place at other times....and around me" ”......
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/839935/posts
And several publications listed by Freeper Stand Watch Listen, in his reply 1.
Here are links to various education threads (also containing numerous helpful links)
Walter E. Williams: Inferior Education of Black Americans
Source:CNSNews.com; Published: February 05, 2003; Author: Walter E. WilliamsUnion Fraud Underscores Need for School Vouchers
Source: CNSNEWS.com; Published: February 05, 2003; Author: Linda ChavezTime for public schools to throw in the towel?
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: January 27, 2003; Author: Dr. Laura SchlessingerMy Classroom From Hell
Source: The Wall Street Journal; Published: January 24, 2003; Author: Joshua KaplowitzCan more money make schools better?
Source: TownHall.com; Published: January 21, 2003; Author: Phyllis SchlaflyAre public schools constitutional?
Source: NewsWithViews; Published: JANUARY 20, 2003; Auythor: Lynn M. StuterThe intellectual rape of Oakland's schools
Source: TownHall.com; Published: January 17, 2003; Author: David HorowitzHip-hop hogwash in the schools (Michelle Malkin)
Source: TownHall.com; Published: January 15, 2003; Author: Michelle MalkinDumbed Down and Dumber Still
Source: The American Prowler; Published: January 15, 2003; Author: By George NeumayrWashington's education establishment
Source: TownHall.com; Published: January 8, 2003; Author:Walter WilliamsNEA Hastens Death of American Education
Source: INSIGHT magazine; Published: January 6, 2003; Author: Ralph de ToledanoWhite Teachers Fleeing Black Schools
Source: Newsmax; Published:January 1, 2003; Author: Chad RoedemeierFiddling whilst Rome burns
Source: TownHall.com; Published: December 26, 2002; Author: Walter WilliamsGovernment School Monopolies Leave Children Behind
Source: Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty; Published: December 4, 2002; Author: Clint GreenThe silence of the lambs: McMillan blasts bureaucrats for destroying public education
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: August 15, 2002; Author: Craige McMillanTaking Charge: Let's Stop Aiding and Abetting Academicians' Folly
Source: HOME EDUCATION magazine; Published: July-August 2002; Author: Larry and Susan KasemanOpen Directory --Society/Issues/Education/Education_Reform
Deconstructing Public Education
Source: www.newsmax.com; Published: July 26, 2002; Author: Diane AldenSpecious Science In Our Schools
Source: Toogood Reports; Published: July 9, 2002; Author: Alan CarubaSYMPOSIUM Q: Is the National Education Association Being Fair to Its Religious Objectors?
Source: INSIGHT magazine; Published: June 10, 2002; Authors NO: Stefan Gleason ////\\\\ YES: Bob ChasePublic Sector Subverting Productive Industry
Source: Toogood Reports; Published: May 16, 2002; Author: Henry PelifianHistory of America's Education Part 2: Noah Webster and Early America
Source: Sierra Times; Published: March 27, 2002; Author: April ShenandoahHow Communist is Public Education?
Source: sierratimes.com; Published:March 22, 2002; Author: Chuck MorseHistory of America's Education Part 1: Johnny is in trouble
Source: Sierra Times; Published: March 20, 2002; Author: April ShenandoahAudit rips Georgia schools' curriculum
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution; Published: March 11, 2002; Author:JAMES SALZERWhy schools fail: Samuel Blumenfeld warns Bush's education legislation is ineffective
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: March 2, 2002; Author: Samuel BlumenfeldPublic School Isn't Like I Remember It
Source: Too Good Reports; Published: February 28, 2002; Author: Phyllis SchlaflyWhat Is Lacking In Our Educational System
Source: Too Good Reports; Published: February 28, 2002; Author: Ben CerrutiThe charade of education reform
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: February 2, 2002; Author: Dr. Samuel L. BlumenfeldAmerican public schools: Working just as designed
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: January 21, 2002; Author: Vox DayHigh Schools Fail Thanks To Grade Inflation And Social Promotion
Source: Toogood Reports; Published: December 5, 2001; Author: Vin SuprynowiczWHY AMERICANS CANT READ
Source: Accuracy in Media; Published: December 4, 2001; Author: Reed Irvine and Cliff KincaidThe Failing Teacher and the Teachers' Code of Silence
Source: CNSNews.com; Published: December 3, 2001; Author: Glenn SacksTime for outrage! Linda Bowles reports latest results in America's public schools
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: November 27, 2001; Author: Linda BowlesIlliterate in Boston: Samuel Blumenfeld explains U.S.'s ongoing reading problem
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: July 20, 2001; Author: Samuel BlumenfeldNEA - Let our children go!
Source: WorldNet Daily; Published: June 23. 2001; Author: Linda HarveyCOOKING THE BOOKS AT EDUCATION
Source: Accuracy In Media; Published: June 5, 2001; Author: Cliff KincaidWhy Do Schools Play Games With Students' Minds ?
Source: The Detroit News; Published: April 1, 2001; Author: Thomas SowellThe Public School Nightmare: Why fix a system designed to destroy individual thought?
Source: http://home.talkcity.com/LibraryDr/patt/homeschl.htm; Author: John Taylor GattoDumbing down teachers
Source: USNews.com; Published: February 21, 2001; Author: John LeoFree Republic links to education related articles (thread#8)
Source: Free Republic; Published: 3-20-2001; Author: VariousAre children deliberately 'dumbed down' in school? {YES!!!}
Source: World Net Daily; Published: May 13, 2001; Author: Geoff Metcalf {Interview}Could they really have done it on purpose?
Source: THE LIBERTARIAN; Published: 07/28/2000; Author: Vin SuprynowiczNew Book Explores America's Education Catastrophe
Source: Christian Citizen USA; Published: April 2000; Author: William H. WildDeliberately dumbing us down (Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt's, "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America"
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: December 2,1999; Author: Samuel L. BlumenfeldDeconstructing the Western Mind: Gramscian-Marxist Subversion of Faith and Education
Source: www.petersnet; Published: Winter 1997; Author: Frank MorrissLittleton Crisis to Government Control
The UN Plan for Your Mental Health
But they’re certain that they’re smarter than anyone, because internet, I guess.
I am fortunate i was still able to attend schools when most teachers, most not all, but the large majority, still wanted their kids to learn properly and desired to see them increase their abilities and intelligence. These teachers were more old school and would not use methods that were inferior and kept students confused and not learning.
I remember several good teachers.
3rd grade teacher was elderly and drove a very old Cadillac. She still had the farm of her husband and ancestors.
The rumor in school, was that she was a terror (she was really, very old, silver hair, and almost always a black dress), but she was very kind to all of us.
It was her last year teaching; IIRC, she had started teaching just after WW-I.
She had all of our class, plus parents, out to her farm for a picnic, and it was wonderful.
Another good teacher - math - also had a terrible reputation *by rumors.* Yet she was kind, too; and worked hard to be her best.
We did not know much about cancer, yet we somehow sensed that she was in trouble. She continued to soldier on, wearing a wig.
She managed to finish the school year, and we were proud of her and let her know.
Another good teacher, and probably great, was a kind old gent who also started just after WW-I. He had great skill at helping students. We loved him. This was also his last year teaching.
9th grade teacher also had cancer, but she also soldiered on. Her husband was a bomb wing commander for the early SAC ops nearby.
We were lucky.
I had an excellent journalism teacher 4 years through high school, he taught properly and made me understand hard news the way it should be
Good science teacher for chemistry and physics, brilliant minds, they enjoyed the few gifted students they got every now and then, they knew the impact they were having
Had a good math teacher senior year, he spoke up for me to help me take pre-calc and calc at the same time so i could have calculus finished before college, aced all of it.
My dad taught high school English for thirty years in coastal Oregon, beginning in ‘69. There was an influx of new staff that year...a lot of hipsters, though many were good teachers. One was fired for sleeping with students, and I know quite a few were using drugs.
1st - dumb down the teachers.
...I’m sorry, I have friends and family that are school teachers...they’re not the sharpest (ahem)...and they’re teaching your kids.
2nd - dumb down the next-gen of teachers.
Rinse repeat.
#10. Thanks for this great list on what is wrong with our educational system plus the tremendous Marxist influence and attacks on it.
{First rule for a researcher/writer is “Don’t organize your desk. You’ll always lose the documents/books you need”.
I had a pamphlet by Lenin, believe the accurate title was “Lenin on Education” which contained a great one paragraph expose of how communism was going to gain control of teachers in order to gain control of what will be taught in schools. Should have been printed by the Communist Party USA’s printing house, International Publishers. I’ll find it, eventually and list it.
Other books of interest:
* “M. I.Kalinin, on Communist Education - Selected Speeches and Articles”, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1953. Aimed at tactics and strategies for indoctrinating Soviet youth.
* “Strategy and Tactics of The Proletarian Revolution”, International Publishers, NY, 1936.
* House Committee on Un-American Activities, many hearings on communist penetration of American education, including:
- “Communist Methods of Infiltration (Education)”, Feb. 25 - 27, 1953, 123 pp. Part 2 - March - April 1953; Part 3, April 1953 thru p. 1079 (for all three parts); Part 4 - April 1953, thru page 1148. Part 5 - April 29 - May 28, 1953, thru p. 1586. Part 6 - June 22 - July 1, 1954, p. 1937. Part 7 - May 15, 1953, pp. 3559 - 3583. Part 8 - April 21 - June 8, 1953, pp. 4013 - 4053; Part 9, June 28-29, 1954, pp. 5753 - 5837.
* Small books by Mary Grabar and/or Tina Trent. One small book is “The Crisis in American Journalism and the Conservative Response”, includes on journalism schools, 2013, America’s Survival, Inc. - www.usasurvival.org (for more information on availability from them or the authors).
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I hope to have more sources for FR readers in the future.
Thanks for posting this treasure trove of great information....and, for the ping :)
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