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A World Without Teachers
The American Thinker ^ | 12/26/2011 | Richard Miniter

Posted on 12/26/2011 8:23:52 AM PST by Discoshaman

The Kindle and Nook may make for not only the most important advance in reading since Gutenberg, but also, quite likely, a major lesson in unintended consequences. Especially for the educational establishment, because for the first time in history, Americans should be able to envision a future without public-school teachers -- indeed, a future without public-school administrators or state departments of education with their rigidly enforced, politically correct social-transformation curriculum. A future without onerous school taxes, "education president(s)," self-preening school boards, or million-dollar classrooms. But most happily, a future without a single supercilious finger wagging in our face as we're forever lectured about how much a securely tenured, part-time, self-important, overpaid class of public employees "cares" about our sons and daughters. Really, really, really cares. And, of course, knows much better than we do how to bring them up.

And it's all possible because these cheap, handheld, downloadable reading devices such as Kindle and Nook now give parents a choice between tutoring and classroom education.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/12/a_world_without_schoolteachers.html#ixzz1heq4w6Z2

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: ebooks; education; frhf; homeschooling; indoctrination; learning; publicschools; schools; teachers; teaching; unions
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To: metmom

thanks again! I’m still trying to wrap my brain around everything I may have to shield her from.

She’s a very finicky eater, and yogurt is one of the few things I’ve been able to count on!


101 posted on 12/27/2011 8:46:48 AM PST by Scotswife
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To: Scotswife

There is soy yogurt and coconut yogurt but they are more expensive.

There is also soy milk and rice milk, which are often fortified with calcium.

Be careful with the soy. It’s supposed to contain estrogen like compounds and I don’t know what kind of effect that might have on a child.

A friend of mine who has a son who is deathly allergic to milk and eggs always looked for kosher stuff. Kosher is supposed to be guaranteed free of milk and egg products.


102 posted on 12/27/2011 9:31:59 AM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: Discoshaman
If it's not paper, it's not an archive.
Yes, I do appreciate the the potential of having 10K books on a CD and/or an e-book reader. Am very wary of most current readers, but am not entirely au courant with how they work so I won't make claims that might not be true.
An interesting side effect is that older books can be Gutenberged.
103 posted on 12/27/2011 9:34:46 PM PST by cycjec
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To: the invisib1e hand; Discoshaman

Discoshaman, basically I’m with you all the way. I just
have a tendency to see the “downside” ... Imagine. ....
Imagine all homeschoolers being required to carry e-readers
with tracking capacity. Imagine, as has been reported
already, remote erasure of e-books that aren’t approved
by the authorities. ... Yes, the end, the end of public
so-called education is so palpably close it can be
dizzying. But let’s be wary of the endgame. They won’ t
want to be superseded.


104 posted on 12/27/2011 9:42:42 PM PST by cycjec
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To: junta
A few years back, NYU Dental School wanted to switch to e-texts. temporary ones that would vanish at the end of the semester. I don't know the pricing system but I doubt it was that much cheaper. Don't know how that worked out bc my informant, who worked at the school quit because of that policy.
Taking on the college textbook racket means striking at the roots; the student loan program and the accreditation system. With regards to the former, the end, or some end is in sight but the possibilities include very bad ones as well as good ones.
105 posted on 12/27/2011 9:47:30 PM PST by cycjec
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To: Vince Ferrer

The Internet, as opposed to subsets thereof, to wit
Google and “the Cloud” is a game changer. OTOH, the
depth of material available online in many subjects
is not that great. I can’t imagine a world without
brick and mortar libraries personally.


106 posted on 12/27/2011 9:50:16 PM PST by cycjec
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To: metmom
The kosher pareve items are supposed to be milk free. One is depending on the certifying agency. Reliable ones OU http://www.ou.org and Star-K. can't recall the URL offhand. OU a "U" in an circle, Star-K a "K" in a circle. If there's any doubt whatsoever call them up an ask about their criteria.
107 posted on 12/27/2011 10:04:03 PM PST by cycjec
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To: metmom

Kosher pareve products may legitimately include eggs,
even though these come from a chicken, and the ingredients
should indicate that they do.


108 posted on 12/27/2011 10:06:23 PM PST by cycjec
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To: wintertime
wintertime: simply by attending children risk learning that a powerful government can give a ** lot ** of socialist goodies
One of the all-time great quotes.
Once upon a time, local school control did ensure some understanding of how the expense of the school system was borne.
This is not so any more.
109 posted on 12/27/2011 10:23:26 PM PST by cycjec
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To: lonestar

It may be time to “revisit” the currently imposed system
of “voting rights” too... or it will be after everything
else gets sorted out.


110 posted on 12/27/2011 10:34:21 PM PST by cycjec
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To: cycjec; Scotswife

Scotswife, ping to posts 107 and 108.


111 posted on 12/28/2011 5:12:26 AM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: cycjec

Way back in the 50’s when I was attending school,our techer[s] informed us how the schools were supported and new schools were financed. In the area I grew up in it they were supported by property taxes and if the citizens believed they need a new school, they voted for to issue bonds.


112 posted on 12/28/2011 5:17:43 AM PST by sport
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To: sport
I grew up in it they were supported by property taxes and if the citizens believed they need a new school, they voted for to issue bonds.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

With socialism the trend is inexorably toward greater and greater centralization. Town schools become county schools which become state schools that are eventually controlled nationally through legislation, the unions, and the crony- capitalist “education industrial complex”.

As for the voters:

1) There is inevitably the problem of which Alexis de Tocqueville warned. Once voters learn that they can vote themselves socialist goodies from out of their neighbor's pocket then it's downhill from there. Modern compulsory government schooling was a socialist “goodie” from its very beginnings in the mid-1800s to early 1900s. Simply by attending children ( and parents) learn that government has great power to give them socialist tuition-free schooling and babysitting, Well?...Why not use the voting booth for other goodles?

2) There is now an education-industrial complex. In my county government school workers are the single largest block of employees. No other business comes even close in the number of workers or in payroll. Add to this the **huge** number of crony-capitalist vendors and their employees who supply and service this education-industrial complex and the parents who enjoy taxpaid babysitting ( with minimal “schooling’).

In other words, Alexis de Tocqueville would agree with me. The voting mob wins. Whatever the education-industrial-complex wants, it gets at the voting booth.

113 posted on 12/28/2011 7:40:55 AM PST by wintertime (I am a Constitutional Restorationist!!! Yes!)
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To: AnalogReigns
I really do not believe ANY device or method—will do away wit the need for a good, personal, education—in Christian schools.

Are "Christian" schools what makes Asians and Indians so much smarter than us?

114 posted on 12/28/2011 11:37:49 AM PST by GunRunner (***Not associated with any criminal actions by the ATF***)
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