Posted on 09/19/2021 3:32:08 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Dumbing down is something our public schools are good at. Cluttering up everyone's mind is a vital part of the process.
Traditionally, education was focused on facts, information, details, content, learning, and knowledge, all of these hopefully leading to wisdom. Now we've gone to the other extreme.
The students learn little, and they cannot connect one fragment of information to another. Classrooms are filled with chatter. The brains of students are overflowing with nothing much.
This shift is bizarre. Wasn't it always assumed we were searching for the truth, for higher understanding, for the inner workings of reality, for the nitty-gritty, as slang had it?
If you mentioned any of that to today's students, they would wonder what you're babbling about.
By weird accident, or more probably a century-long plot, our Education Establishment embraced every method guaranteed to kick facts to the curb. There are so many examples:
Our professors of education agree that students should never have to memorize anything. What most of us call facts, these professors call factoids so they can more easily be dismissed as trivial.
If students are made to memorize anything, it's the wrong things, as in the cases of sight-words and cumbersome math gimmicks — e.g., the lattice method.
Direct instruction from teachers to students of any information is scorned. Children are told to find or create their own new knowledge. Teachers should not get in the way of this process — i.e., shut up.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I think our next generation is in deep trouble. Parents need to fight the non-education cabal.
Here is some food for thought: one hundred years ago we were teaching Latin and Greek philosophy in high school. Today we are teaching remedial reading and math in college.
The plot sickens.
Charlotte Tomson Iserbyt wrote Dumbing Down America. She says that if your kids are getting standardized testing, the system has got you in its clutches.
One effort to do this:
www.merit.academy
Long ... March ... through ... The ... institutions ...
But in those days it was not assumed that everyone needs to go to college. And the mantra “No Child Left Behind”” would be viewed as blithering nonsense instead of semi-religious education dogma. Some children do get left behind its a simple fact of human existence, some get left because they choose to, others do because they can only go so far, some because they can’t even start. No amount of money, time, hand wringing will change that !
The best first step is close the Colleges of Education so education methodology voodoo is stopped at the source. Yes it will trickle out through other forums like “Fill-in-the-Blank” Studies programs, but close the main source of the poison first. Require teachers to have actual degrees, even the elementary teachers. Make teaching qualification an apprenticeship, say a year of observed\monitored vetting. Then five years of experience before a license is granted.
Next step is restore discipline, of course this will cause a firestorm of “race card” playing.
But in those days it was not assumed that everyone needs to go to college. And the mantra “No Child Left Behind”” would be viewed as blithering nonsense instead of semi-religious education dogma. Some children do get left behind its a simple fact of human existence, some get left because they choose to, others do because they can only go so far, some because they can’t even start. No amount of money, time, hand wringing will change that !
The best first step is close the Colleges of Education so education methodology voodoo is stopped at the source. Yes it will trickle out through other forums like “Fill-in-the-Blank” Studies programs, but close the main source of the poison first. Require teachers to have actual degrees, even the elementary teachers. Make teaching qualification an apprenticeship, say a year of observed\monitored vetting. Then five years of experience before a license is granted.
Next step is restore discipline, of course this will cause a firestorm of “race card” playing.
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