PoliticalChic
Diamond Member
1. Perhaps you have heard this criticism of government schooling: our students cannot complete with most other advanced nations.
This is the result of an education system that functions via Mushroom Management.... ….they treat students like mushrooms….keep them in the dark and feed them….manure.
2. "...the Left Wants Twitter Over Tolstoy in Our Schools
If one leftist teachers group gets its way, reading literature in school will be replaced by reading internet memes and Twitter posts.
A powerful group of educators called the National Council of Teachers of English recently released a statement calling on schools to “decenter book reading and essay writing as the pinnacles of English language arts education.”
But why?
To more thoroughly push its leftist ideology, of course.
The statement goes on to support critical pedagogies, referring to Marxist ideas, a la critical race theory. It reads,
3. The left frequently attacks traditional educational strategies like reading classical literature as upholding white supremacy.
Founded in 1911, the National Council of Teachers of English boasts that it has 25,000 members across the country that receive its materials and recommendations. One English teacher in Massachusetts bragged about getting Homer’s epic poem “The Odyssey” removed from her school’s curriculum, while the journalists at NPR extoll listeners to “decolonize” their bookshelves.
The group goes full radical Marxist by saying kids should learn critical literacy and critical media literacy, dropping all pretense of neutrality. “Critical” here is a thinly veiled code for Marxist-style ideology."
4. Authors from times past still offer valuable lessons and insight into the human condition, and as a society, we suffer enormously when we replace them with quick quips from Twitter.
Indeed, it’s our obsession with reducing messages to sound bites and 280-character tweets that’s part of the cause of today’s moral rot. Distilling strong values and lessons about what it means to be good people and good citizens is impossible under such conditions.
Literature takes effort and skill to unpack, but the value is immeasurable.
www.dailysignal.com
5. When you see what the Left/Democrats have done and are doing to education, keep this in mind:
" In October 1919, Lenin paid a secret visit to the laboratory of the great physiologist I. P. Pavlov, a Russian physiologist known chiefly for the concept of the conditioned reflex. In his classic experiment, he found that a hungry dog can be trained to associate the sound of a bell with food and will salivate at the sound even in the absence of food.
Lenin wanted to find out if his work on the conditional reflexes of the brain might help the Bolsheviks control European behaviour.
“I want the masses of Russia to follow a Communistic pattern of thinking and reacting,” Lenin explained. Pavlov was astounded. It seemed that Lenin wanted him to do for humans what he had already done for dogs.
“Do you mean that you would like to standardise the population of Russia? Make them all behave in the same way?” he asked. “Exactly” replied Lenin. “Man can be corrected. Man can be made what we want him to be.”…
Orlando Figes, "A People's Tragedy," p.732-733
This is the result of an education system that functions via Mushroom Management.... ….they treat students like mushrooms….keep them in the dark and feed them….manure.
2. "...the Left Wants Twitter Over Tolstoy in Our Schools
If one leftist teachers group gets its way, reading literature in school will be replaced by reading internet memes and Twitter posts.
A powerful group of educators called the National Council of Teachers of English recently released a statement calling on schools to “decenter book reading and essay writing as the pinnacles of English language arts education.”
But why?
To more thoroughly push its leftist ideology, of course.
The statement goes on to support critical pedagogies, referring to Marxist ideas, a la critical race theory. It reads,
3. The left frequently attacks traditional educational strategies like reading classical literature as upholding white supremacy.
Founded in 1911, the National Council of Teachers of English boasts that it has 25,000 members across the country that receive its materials and recommendations. One English teacher in Massachusetts bragged about getting Homer’s epic poem “The Odyssey” removed from her school’s curriculum, while the journalists at NPR extoll listeners to “decolonize” their bookshelves.
The group goes full radical Marxist by saying kids should learn critical literacy and critical media literacy, dropping all pretense of neutrality. “Critical” here is a thinly veiled code for Marxist-style ideology."
4. Authors from times past still offer valuable lessons and insight into the human condition, and as a society, we suffer enormously when we replace them with quick quips from Twitter.
Indeed, it’s our obsession with reducing messages to sound bites and 280-character tweets that’s part of the cause of today’s moral rot. Distilling strong values and lessons about what it means to be good people and good citizens is impossible under such conditions.
Literature takes effort and skill to unpack, but the value is immeasurable.
Why the Left Wants Twitter Over Tolstoy in Our Schools
The radical left wants to replace classical literature with learning about internet memes and Twitter posts.
www.dailysignal.com
5. When you see what the Left/Democrats have done and are doing to education, keep this in mind:
" In October 1919, Lenin paid a secret visit to the laboratory of the great physiologist I. P. Pavlov, a Russian physiologist known chiefly for the concept of the conditioned reflex. In his classic experiment, he found that a hungry dog can be trained to associate the sound of a bell with food and will salivate at the sound even in the absence of food.
Lenin wanted to find out if his work on the conditional reflexes of the brain might help the Bolsheviks control European behaviour.
“I want the masses of Russia to follow a Communistic pattern of thinking and reacting,” Lenin explained. Pavlov was astounded. It seemed that Lenin wanted him to do for humans what he had already done for dogs.
“Do you mean that you would like to standardise the population of Russia? Make them all behave in the same way?” he asked. “Exactly” replied Lenin. “Man can be corrected. Man can be made what we want him to be.”…
Orlando Figes, "A People's Tragedy," p.732-733
