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the constructivist NCTM standard and science by “inquiry methods” which were first championed by John Dewey. These are the current fads and the basis for most state standards for these subjects. Both are horrible - how a kid ever learns anything being taught like that, I don’t know.

Here's a clue. John Dewey and company were never educators in the sense you're thinking of. They were indoctrinators (Marxist, of course) of the first stripe. The kids don't learn anything, and you cannot think of how they can, when the real trick is; they were never supposed to in the first place.

They only thing that mattered was getting them concentrated, in one place, to spew the propaganda, disguised as education. Real facts, real history, real skills, were all deemed less essential than the propaganda, or even totally non-essential. Some, like critical thinking skills, were deemed "counterproductive, and were not only ignored, but even totally discouraged by the "educators" in the "educatees"...

the infowarrior