Posted on 01/01/2013 5:32:24 AM PST by IbJensen
-— The info he presents is even more dark than I had known. -—
You have to read it to believe it. The history presented in govt schools, and even universities, is a thorough whitewash.
Many of Gatto’s lectures are available on YouTube as well. The five part “Ultimate History Lesson” is a treat, even if it isn’t the ultimate history lesson.
As a 76-year-old RIGHT wing conservative for 65 years, I couldn’t agree more with your comment! I became a Conservative right-winger before I became a teen-ager!
Down with the socialist central government and with BRANCO OBAMA!
Yes, the third party is the answer, DAMNIT!
We’re poorly served by this complicit second party bullsh-t and it’s passed time to recognize it!
“the Bush open borders really cemented the incremental-ism of turning the US into a non white nation.”
Dubya certainly finished off California.
We badly needed to have illegals deported from this state and instead we got 8 years of not enforcing the law combined with repeated attempts for amnesty.
Bush was the best thing that leftwing Democrats with a grievance against native white America could have hoped for. He insured that Obama or someone like him will rule this country from now on.
You are applying standards of today to the past. My father dropped out of school in the tenth grade ca. 1930. He would be embarrassed by his MBA grand daughter’s (My niece) lack of English and math skills. You can’t compare grade levels of the past to today. 6th grade tests from the 20s and 30s are too challenging for college students of today.
The government website calls them Obama Phones.
I agree with you. People named Bush can never be under-blamed for our fiasco.
I was a teaching assistant for Biology at a state university. I taught two classes, one for the general university population and one for the Education students.
The general class was quite an ordeal and required a lot of studying.
The Education School class was on a kindergarten level. It was like something you would see in a coloring book.
We require much more of someone getting a degree in basket weaving than we do someone pursuing a teaching certificate.
p.s. My dad was born in 1919 and constantly complained about ignorant youth. I never saw him read a book. He had above average intelligence, but he never developed his mind after he got out of high school. He held thoroughly ignorant views about a variety of subjects. He and my mother were lifelong Dems who believed all the lies about "greedy Republicans" and wonderful Dems who cared about the people. So don't lump all people together.
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When books were the only way to find out about the world, or the only way to escape to another place or time for an hour, well then you damn well better learn to read. And they did.
It's documented in the test score comparison between WWI and WWII recruits how badly literacy had fallen in a few short decades. Look it up.
Teaching kids to read isn't hard. Marva Collins ran in an inner city school, and said that she never had a pupil that she could not teach to read by Christmas of the pupil's first year. But she used phonics, which have been around and working since the days of Martin Luther. Just because today's standards are very poor now doesn't mean that they weren't better before.
There has been a lot of progress in many areas since Martin Luther. But none in education in the last 50 years. If you've read Brave New World, you'll recognize the philosophy of the progressive educators. They believe in different training regimes for different classes, the Alphas, Betas, Deltas and Gammas of the brave new Progressive era. Read John Taylor Gatto. Not only are today's standards much lower, it was a planned thing.
Charlotte Iserbyt's The Secret History of Western Education is on the same subject. If you want it from the Fabian horse's mouth, research the writings of John Dewey.
There is a direct correlation between years of schooling and overall knowledge. I doubt the recruits of WWI were better educated than the WWII recruits who had more years of schooling.
Three Japanese prime ministers in a row squarely highlighted America’s perpetual problem. Unfortunately they were severely chastised by the American news media for perceived racism.
Now clueless Americans have elevated a marxist nobody from the Peoples Republic of Illinois into the catbird seat. The longer this clownish leftist props his size 14 shoes on that antique desk the further this nation slides into the sewer and anarchy.
Bronco Bama is truly one of a kind. Unfortunately he’s the kind one would love to flush. Every time I see this slimy rat pose with his vice-president I want to puke!
I remember the cartoon from a few decades ago that was in response to Biden’s ascinine posturing during senate hearings. Here we had a nitwit attempting to act solon-like but came off as a complete ass.
The cartoon showed Biden at the zoo in front of the monkey cage. He was lecturing the monkey thusly:
“I’m a lot smarter than you and am better educated.”
She be ugly AND stupid.
If I didn’t know better I would say this woman is a South African.
Yet there are some imbecilic rinos who believe we need a third Bush and possibly a fourth.
“Whole word” reading is idiotic — it negates the entire point of an alphabet.
Well, english is not phonetically precise. There are other languages that are much more “how it writes is how it reads” — e.g. bough, cough, tough....
question though, why should calculators be allowed at all in school?
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