Posted on 03/06/2011 11:45:45 AM PST by Nachum
Okay, folks, place your bets. Was it clueless incompetence on a cosmic scale? Or, was it John Deweys collectivist wet dream turned Clockwork Orange?
One of these ways or the other, we became a country with 50,000,000 functional illiterates, people who can't read a cereal box, never mind instructions on a pill bottle when that exact skill might save a life. Prisons are full of people who can't read. The country's schools wallow in mediocrity. All thanks to educational malfeasance, decade after decade.
Illiteracy_in_AmericaJ'accuse! J'accuse! The so-called experts in charge of reading are derelict and destructive. Please, remove these parasites from our weary carcass.
Reading was always something that kids learned, almost automatically, in the first few years of schools. Kids learn the alphabet, then A is for Apple, then the sounds of the letters, and soon everyone is reading.
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My girlfriend’s sister would get frustrated over his inability to read fluently that she would take the book from him and read aloud...in 8th grade. then she would figure his math problems, all the while screaming at him. It’s not only bad teachers but bad parents and a society too fixated on the “rights” of a child.
Not every young black man fears responsibility? No, but far too many. Is that your point? No, but stats look pretty poorly. Are you a racist? No.
I was very fortunate to learn to read phonetically. It gave me the confidence to tackle works far beyond my ability at various times, for example, Milton’s Paradise Lost while a fourth grader and the best short stories of the old Saturday Evening Post.
So did I go to a fancy new school? No. Three grades in one room, a big coal stove in the back and no indoor plumbing.
But I had a teacher that knew what she doing and how to do it.
This was the plan all along...
“I believe that..education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform”
“I believe that...it is the business of every one interested in education to insist upon the school as the primary and most effective instrument of social progress and reform...”
“I believe that...every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling; that he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of proper social order and the securing of the right social growth.”
“I believe that...when society once recognizes the possibilities in this direction, and the obligations which these possibilities impose, it is impossible to conceive of the resources of time, attention, and MONEY which will be put at the disposal of the educator.”
All of the above are from “Education Today” by John Dewey published in 1940. They were all originally published in 1897 as his “Pedagogic Creed”. He was also a signer of the “Humanist Manifesto 1” in 1933.
“The conditions of work, education, devotion, and play should be humanized. Alienating forces should be modified or eradicated...” From the “Humanist Manifesto 2” in 1973.
If you cannot read then you cannot learn on your own. If you cannot learn on your own then you are able to by “modified”. For those of us that can read and learn on our own...they want to “eradicate”...kinda sounds like Mao.
“Perhaps they were in their classrooms, doing their FREAKIN’ JOBS!!!!”
How about on weekends? Not a peep from these enablers.
“Prisons are full of people who can’t read.”
I don’t suppose any of the blame can be placed on the people who are in prison, or on their families, broken families, pop culture that glorifies criminals, thugs and racial hatred. We will never make all schools great schools, but all schools would be exponentially better if parents would accept the responsibility of educating their children. Parents put their kids in school when they are six or younger, and that’s the end of their responsibility.
Besides his really weird, not to mention wrong, statements about reading, he also stated that teaching penmanship should be ditched, since everyone would be using a typewriter. And bear in mind, he said this over 100 years ago.
FWIW.............Dewey not only taught at the University of Chicago, where he set up their private school ( the LAB SCHOOL, where Obama's children went to, until they all moved to D.C. ! ), but was a major deal at Columbia University's "Teacher's College",instilling his patently ridiculous ideas in all strata of future teachers.
Yes, John Dewey really is one of the founding fathers of not only dumbing down America, but destroying the minds and abilities of at least 4 generations of hapless children.
bttt
I’m sure some of the ones that but the Obamanation into power can read. But unfortunately that cannot think.
My sister taught her kids to read the same way. Both of them were reading at around age 3 or 4, like yours.
And with the youngest one the teacher had the nerve to criticize my sister for not teaching her son to read “using the proper methodology”. Sis shot back “he can read better than the rest of the class, go ahead and make an issue of it” and the teacher shut up.
He’s being transferred to a private Christian school at the end of this quarter.
Just a guess here, but the 'good' teachers have more than likely been thoroughly intimidated into silence by the union thugocracy.
If you've never personally endured such a thing, you have no idea how deadly serious these folks are. I was once a Teamster. I know.
Not polite, and probably racist to graphically imply that every young black man in the group fears responsibility and fatherhood.”
Correct - the fear of responsibility only applies in 70+% of cases nationally, while reaching much higher levels in liberal urban centers. Just the facts.
Same with me. At a young school age, I was reading much higher level books such as stuff for high school and some college.
Instead of Dick And Jane, I preferred JANE’s books and their equivalents that the public library had.
In the typical public skrool way I was punished for it for a few years up through middle school by being put in some kind of development class with people that were polar opposites with learning disabilities.
“He’s being transferred to a private Christian school at the end of this quarter.”
Yea, there’s really nothing to it. People have been reading for 5,000 years, and believe me, most of that time, there was not an army of ‘education experts’. This stuff is child’s play.
As to your ‘trouble maker’ nephew (LOL), just the reaction of the Blob (as Thomas Sowell calls them) to him makes it more than clear that success for her kids was simply not an objective of today’s teachers.
School choice doesn’t end the problem or restore family responsibility....only separating school and state will.
Even those who CAN read are pretty screwed up. Obozo is their poster boy.
“(…) the spread of secondary and latterly tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought.” — P.B. Medawar
The ultimate portable skill now missing from a large segment of our population is the capability of CRITICAL THOUGHT! It goes a long way toward explaining our current mess (the violation of the laws of economics) and almost certainly explains Obama.
So many can’t read...sounds like a great opportunity to have a commercial “Look for the Union Label” Since they were educated in union run government schools.
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