Posted on 08/18/2003 12:14:43 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Sad and pathetic, isn't it?
I don't get it.
It's all about free babysitting. It's as simple as that.
You're right about "whole language." Dewey developed it as a way to prevent children from reading. That's not a typo. As a socialist, Dewey believed that the purpose of schooling was to promote children working collectively. If children couldn't read, they would be forced to work together to guess at the meaning of words. This method of instruction had the additional benefit of preventing children from reading and therefore learning independently. Intellectually defenseless children are easy to manipulate.
The purpose of mass, forced schooling, which we imported from Germany, has always been the regimentation of society.
Math is now anathema because it represents objective, eternal truths. But to the socialist mind, truth is a social construct, not objective and eternal. Therefore, it must be "deconstructed." You can guess the rest.
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