Posted on 05/26/2006 11:21:36 AM PDT by cinives
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Gatto Bump!
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If home schooling was good enough for Abe Lincoln;
then its good enough for mine.
WE need to get rid of government schools. Nothing else is adequate.
Lord have mercy on us.
Aside from Sam Blumenfeld, Gatto is the only ed writer I've found that is worth reading. He's a great man and a great writer.
And they'll get my kids over my dead body.
Schools would serve as "instruments of managed evolution, establishing conditions for selective breeding before the masses take things into their own hands" (now I quoted that from a published essay by Edward Thorndike at Columbia Teacher's college in 1911).
Ideas have consequences.
Today we're getting around that by importing uneducated illegal aliens steeped in socialism.
They can't educate capitalism and individualism out of us fast enough so they're allowing in enough numbers of socialists to overwhelm us.
The real purpose of modern schooling was announced by the legendary sociologist Edward Roth in his manifesto of 1906 called SOCIAL CONTROL. Your librarian will easily be able to get a copy of this book. In it Roth wrote, (I am quoting) "plans are underway to replace family, community and church with propaganda, mass-media and education (of course he meant schooling)...people are only little plastic lumps of dough". Another insider, H. H. Cadard, chairman for the Psychology Department at Princeton, called government schooling approvingly -- "the perfect organization of the hive with the anthill". Cadard wrote further, "standardized testing would cause the lower classes to confront their biological inferiority, sort of like wearing a dunce cap. In time that would discourage reproduction of the ants on the anthill".The hits keep right on comin'
Even Thomas Jefferson, often used to justify public schooling, only thought 3 years of several hours a day was necessary. Other education was best got at home.
We need to get rid of most of government along with it, but I'll be happy to start with public schools.
Bump for later.
I find that plausible. It's very difficult to explain both parties' willingness to commit national suicide.
We need to appeal to the God of "In God We Trust"
No problem. Totalitarian Collectivists would be perfectly comfortable turning you into a dead body to achieve their ends. After all, when there is no God, there are no eternal consequences for murder.
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We should pray often, and as bluntly and aggressively as we can. But, then we must act. Just as prayer alone would not get us past Pearl Harbor - prayers will not bail us out of this current assault on our liberty! So I say, "Praise the Lord, but pass the ammunition!"
A good friend of mine sent the following paragraph that better expresses my true feelings about God, and prayer, and with his permission I submit it now for your consideration:
"It is not enough to simply claim to stand on ’faith.’ The Book of James clearly admonishes that ’faith’ without accompanying action is actually deadfaith. We must be realistic about the present situation. In the words of this organization’s namesake, Patrick Henry, ’There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged!’
The Bible states that ’Righteousness exalts a nation.’ But can indifference and passive acceptance of evil be construed by any stretch as being ’righteousness?’ Are the chains of slavery and servitude the inheritance which we want to leave to our children? So pray by all means, but then act!"
I think I just discovered one of my favorite writers. Thanks for the ping.
I'm somewhat familiar with John Taylor Gatto's work. While I don't agree with absolutely every thing he states, he himself points out one can disagree with some of his individual points yet still heartily agree with his larger point. When it comes to the larger problem of education, he has hit the nail directly on the head.
People look for scapegoats in the nation's educational crisis. Bad kids, bad parents, bad teachers, bad cirriculum, bad culture. Just spend a little more money, make a few more rules, pile on a little more busywork, add a few more hours, and everyone celebrates but very causing the crisis, but the public school system in its entirety. Parents should keep their children out of them if at all possible.
i love this guy... i read his, The Underground History of American Education, a couple of years ago... what a read!
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