The Death Of Education

[PoliticalChic]

1. Today, the education industry uses minimal educating as a beard for its true purpose: turning out 'Lock-Step Liberals' who obligingly vote for policies they can neither explain nor defend.
In due credit, no other government agency has been as efficient nor successful as government schooling.

2. Need proof? One such would be to ask any Liberal/Democrat to state which three or four books have informed their geopolitical outlook.....you've get the proverbial deer-in-the-headlights face.

Or....simply look at the outcome of government schooling:
"For Blazquez, watching American youth embrace avowed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders for president, strikes him as “absurd.” It is the end result, he says, of the cultural marxist education and media propaganda that has anesthetized too many Americans who do not defend the values that made America exceptional."
Cuban-American Filmmaker Warns America Is Morphing Into Communist Country



3. It goes wayyyyyyy back.
Just as Stalin was far smarter than his vassal, Franklin Roosevelt, the Soviets put the poison pill into our system with John Dewey.

The Soviet Potemkin Villages worked like a charm…..on the least insightful: American Progressives and Liberals…..the same sort who vote Democrat today.

One of the most significant dupes is the man who has had more of an effect on American children than even Santa Clause…….Communist John Dewey. He dictated how our children would be ‘educated’ in government schools, for a totalitarian society.


In 1928, Dewey, on his trip to the Soviet, was given the full Potemkin treatment. He laughed off the possibility of his being manipulated…”the warning, which appears humorous in retrospect by my kindly friends is that I would be fooled by being taken to show places…” Of course, immediately upon returning, he wrote a six part series for The New Republic, the political ‘font of all knowledge’ of the American left. “My mind was in a whirl of new impressions in those early days in Leningrad. Readjustment was difficult, and I lived somewhat dazed….” Impressions of Soviet Russia, by John Dewey.


John Dewey was a communist dupe, a Potemkin Progressive. Yet, this man is the greatest single influence on American schoolchildren; his books have been used to train generations of teachers. Even while the Russian civil war was still going on (some seven million killed between 1917 and 1921), Dewey’s books were translated into Russian by the Bolsheviks: they immediately recognized the importance of his ideas to the Soviet collective communist state.

1. 1918, “School’s of Tomorrow,” published in Russian.
2. 1919, “How We Think,” published in Russian.
3. 1920, “The School and Society,” published in Russian.
4. 1921, “Democracy and Education,” published in Russian. The English version, of course, became a bible at Columbia Teacher’s College.

And there's more.....even worse.

4. But there's this news: today is the anniversary of the death of the Marxist who controls teacher's college.....

"Paulo Freire, (born Sept. 19, 1921, Recife, Braz.—died May 2, 1997, São Paulo), Brazilian educator. His ideas developed from his experience teaching Brazil’s peasants to read. His interactive methods, which encouraged students to question the teacher, often led to literacy in as little as 30 hours of instruction. In 1963 he was appointed director of the Brazilian National Literacy Program, but he was jailed following a military coup in 1964. He went into exile, returning in 1979 to help found the Workers Party. His seminal work was Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970). "
Britannica.com


Dewey and Freire have poisoned the minds of untold numbers of American children.

It is impossible to see any way back for the nation.

 

[rightwinger]

Most school boards in this country are run by Republicans
Most states are red states

Schools are run at the state and local level

 

[Moonglow]

The majority of students are progressives, why, because they are young. As far as kids not being able to learn that is not the teachers fault that is the students fault.Today with the internet the whole world of knowledge is with-in the grasp of the user. Yet humans do abject lessons in futility on the internet like posting on US Message Board..

 

[danielpalos]

Only for right wingers; all they have is nothing but Repeal not any better solutions at lower cost.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

The majority of students are progressives, why, because they are young. As far as kids not being able to learn that is not the teachers fault that is the students fault.Today with the internet the whole world of knowledge is with-in the grasp of the user.

Along with a whole world of unmitigated crap, and each person decides which is which. Some use their education to decide, most use their indoctrination.

How else to explain late-term abortion as a standard-use contraceptive, or the belief that a man can become a woman against all facts of science?

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

1. Today, the education industry uses minimal educating as a beard for its true purpose: turning out 'Lock-Step Liberals' who obligingly vote for policies they can neither explain nor defend.
In due credit, no other government agency has been as efficient nor successful as government schooling.

2. Need proof? One such would be to ask any Liberal/Democrat to state which three or four books have informed their geopolitical outlook.....you've get the proverbial deer-in-the-headlights face.

Or....simply look at the outcome of government schooling:
"For Blazquez, watching American youth embrace avowed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders for president, strikes him as “absurd.” It is the end result, he says, of the cultural marxist education and media propaganda that has anesthetized too many Americans who do not defend the values that made America exceptional."
Cuban-American Filmmaker Warns America Is Morphing Into Communist Country



3. It goes wayyyyyyy back.
Just as Stalin was far smarter than his vassal, Franklin Roosevelt, the Soviets put the poison pill into our system with John Dewey.

The Soviet Potemkin Villages worked like a charm…..on the least insightful: American Progressives and Liberals…..the same sort who vote Democrat today.

One of the most significant dupes is the man who has had more of an effect on American children than even Santa Clause…….Communist John Dewey. He dictated how our children would be ‘educated’ in government schools, for a totalitarian society.


In 1928, Dewey, on his trip to the Soviet, was given the full Potemkin treatment. He laughed off the possibility of his being manipulated…”the warning, which appears humorous in retrospect by my kindly friends is that I would be fooled by being taken to show places…” Of course, immediately upon returning, he wrote a six part series for The New Republic, the political ‘font of all knowledge’ of the American left. “My mind was in a whirl of new impressions in those early days in Leningrad. Readjustment was difficult, and I lived somewhat dazed….” Impressions of Soviet Russia, by John Dewey.


John Dewey was a communist dupe, a Potemkin Progressive. Yet, this man is the greatest single influence on American schoolchildren; his books have been used to train generations of teachers. Even while the Russian civil war was still going on (some seven million killed between 1917 and 1921), Dewey’s books were translated into Russian by the Bolsheviks: they immediately recognized the importance of his ideas to the Soviet collective communist state.

1. 1918, “School’s of Tomorrow,” published in Russian.
2. 1919, “How We Think,” published in Russian.
3. 1920, “The School and Society,” published in Russian.
4. 1921, “Democracy and Education,” published in Russian. The English version, of course, became a bible at Columbia Teacher’s College.

And there's more.....even worse.

4. But there's this news: today is the anniversary of the death of the Marxist who controls teacher's college.....

"Paulo Freire, (born Sept. 19, 1921, Recife, Braz.—died May 2, 1997, São Paulo), Brazilian educator. His ideas developed from his experience teaching Brazil’s peasants to read. His interactive methods, which encouraged students to question the teacher, often led to literacy in as little as 30 hours of instruction. In 1963 he was appointed director of the Brazilian National Literacy Program, but he was jailed following a military coup in 1964. He went into exile, returning in 1979 to help found the Workers Party. His seminal work was Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970). "
Britannica.com


Dewey and Freire have poisoned the minds of untold numbers of American children.

It is impossible to see any way back for the nation.

There is a way back. Eventually, some will take the step.

 

[DGS49]

There are "government" schools around the globe that do a fine job of educating their kids. Germany and Japan come to mind, but there are lots more countries that do a lot better job of it than we do here in the U.S. There is no reason why Government schools here could not be as effective.

Our kids in the U.S. are acculturated to be lazy and immature. They feel entitled to be entertained at school, and to receive instant gratification, both at home and in schools. They EXPECT an 'A' for any work product that is not manifestly defective. Even HR "professionals" tell managers that for anyone born after 1980, they must be constantly stroked and coddled or they will leave. At least once every 6 months they must get a promotion or a bonus or some other recognition of their wonderfulness, or they will become lethargic, unproductive, and gone.

Why are so many of our STEM professionals and professors foreigners? It's not genetics. It's the fact that you must work hard to master these subjects and American kids are generally not willing to work hard. Adolescence has been extended to age 40, and beyond. You will never hear a Math or Physics professor making the absurd statement that "there are no wrong answers on this test," as history and sociology teachers often do. You have to know your shit or you fail.

Socialism is the political preference of people who are both lazy in life and lazy thinkers, to boot. No one with any intelligence or ambition wants to be part of a labor union. (Craft unions are a tremendous benefit to our society; God bless them). Those who have never actually worked for a living or paid a significant amount of taxes LOVE socialism. Take from "the Rich," and give to "the Poor." What could be simpler than that? One of the follies of our educational system is that so many of the teachers have never had a real, responsible job in the private sector. They have the level of maturity of a college sophomore. How can we expect them to instill the values that made America great?

You can go through 17 years of American public education and NEVER EVEN HEAR that the most promising avenue to financial wealth in this country is entrepreneurship. They preach the gospel of getting a college degree, then a job with government or a big company, as the Land of Milk and Honey, which is basically nonsense.

 

[Pogo]

I've carried a Paolo Freire quote around with me for decades:

"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."

Apparently the OP likes to bootlick. There ooze among us those with no self-respect. No wonder she's a drooling Rumpbot.

 

[PoliticalChic]

1. Today, the education industry uses minimal educating as a beard for its true purpose: turning out 'Lock-Step Liberals' who obligingly vote for policies they can neither explain nor defend.
In due credit, no other government agency has been as efficient nor successful as government schooling.

2. Need proof? One such would be to ask any Liberal/Democrat to state which three or four books have informed their geopolitical outlook.....you've get the proverbial deer-in-the-headlights face.

Or....simply look at the outcome of government schooling:
"For Blazquez, watching American youth embrace avowed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders for president, strikes him as “absurd.” It is the end result, he says, of the cultural marxist education and media propaganda that has anesthetized too many Americans who do not defend the values that made America exceptional."
Cuban-American Filmmaker Warns America Is Morphing Into Communist Country



3. It goes wayyyyyyy back.
Just as Stalin was far smarter than his vassal, Franklin Roosevelt, the Soviets put the poison pill into our system with John Dewey.

The Soviet Potemkin Villages worked like a charm…..on the least insightful: American Progressives and Liberals…..the same sort who vote Democrat today.

One of the most significant dupes is the man who has had more of an effect on American children than even Santa Clause…….Communist John Dewey. He dictated how our children would be ‘educated’ in government schools, for a totalitarian society.


In 1928, Dewey, on his trip to the Soviet, was given the full Potemkin treatment. He laughed off the possibility of his being manipulated…”the warning, which appears humorous in retrospect by my kindly friends is that I would be fooled by being taken to show places…” Of course, immediately upon returning, he wrote a six part series for The New Republic, the political ‘font of all knowledge’ of the American left. “My mind was in a whirl of new impressions in those early days in Leningrad. Readjustment was difficult, and I lived somewhat dazed….” Impressions of Soviet Russia, by John Dewey.


John Dewey was a communist dupe, a Potemkin Progressive. Yet, this man is the greatest single influence on American schoolchildren; his books have been used to train generations of teachers. Even while the Russian civil war was still going on (some seven million killed between 1917 and 1921), Dewey’s books were translated into Russian by the Bolsheviks: they immediately recognized the importance of his ideas to the Soviet collective communist state.

1. 1918, “School’s of Tomorrow,” published in Russian.
2. 1919, “How We Think,” published in Russian.
3. 1920, “The School and Society,” published in Russian.
4. 1921, “Democracy and Education,” published in Russian. The English version, of course, became a bible at Columbia Teacher’s College.

And there's more.....even worse.

4. But there's this news: today is the anniversary of the death of the Marxist who controls teacher's college.....

"Paulo Freire, (born Sept. 19, 1921, Recife, Braz.—died May 2, 1997, São Paulo), Brazilian educator. His ideas developed from his experience teaching Brazil’s peasants to read. His interactive methods, which encouraged students to question the teacher, often led to literacy in as little as 30 hours of instruction. In 1963 he was appointed director of the Brazilian National Literacy Program, but he was jailed following a military coup in 1964. He went into exile, returning in 1979 to help found the Workers Party. His seminal work was Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970). "
Britannica.com


Dewey and Freire have poisoned the minds of untold numbers of American children.

It is impossible to see any way back for the nation.

There is a way back. Eventually, some will take the step.

I wish I could be the optimist that you are.


I believe we are basking in the afterglow of a once great nation.

Unless we can pry the schools from them, as earlier American pried their slaves from them.....America is lost.

 

[Moonglow]

When you have a great representation of private school and private college, Donald Trump, you don't need a thesis paper to tell you who graduated because of money instead of grades.

 

[PoliticalChic]

There are "government" schools around the globe that do a fine job of educating their kids. Germany and Japan come to mind, but there are lots more countries that do a lot better job of it than we do here in the U.S. There is no reason why Government schools here could not be as effective.

Our kids in the U.S. are acculturated to be lazy and immature. They feel entitled to be entertained at school, and to receive instant gratification, both at home and in schools. They EXPECT an 'A' for any work product that is not manifestly defective. Even HR "professionals" tell managers that for anyone born after 1980, they must be constantly stroked and coddled or they will leave. At least once every 6 months they must get a promotion or a bonus or some other recognition of their wonderfulness, or they will become lethargic, unproductive, and gone.

Why are so many of our STEM professionals and professors foreigners? It's not genetics. It's the fact that you must work hard to master these subjects and American kids are generally not willing to work hard. Adolescence has been extended to age 40, and beyond. You will never hear a Math or Physics professor making the absurd statement that "there are no wrong answers on this test," as history and sociology teachers often do. You have to know your shit or you fail.

Socialism is the political preference of people who are both lazy in life and lazy thinkers, to boot. No one with any intelligence or ambition wants to be part of a labor union. (Craft unions are a tremendous benefit to our society; God bless them). Those who have never actually worked for a living or paid a significant amount of taxes LOVE socialism. Take from "the Rich," and give to "the Poor." What could be simpler than that? One of the follies of our educational system is that so many of the teachers have never had a real, responsible job in the private sector. They have the level of maturity of a college sophomore. How can we expect them to instill the values that made America great?

You can go through 17 years of American public education and NEVER EVEN HEAR that the most promising avenue to financial wealth in this country is entrepreneurship. They preach the gospel of getting a college degree, then a job with government or a big company, as the Land of Milk and Honey, which is basically nonsense.

I never said it was genetics.....but it certainly is Marxism/socialism at the heart of the problem.

An excellent choice of terms, "acculturation"....the assimilation of a different culture.


This one:

1. "Third-Grade Teacher Has Students Write ‘Get Well’ Cards To Cop Killer Mumia Abu-Jamal A third-grade teacher at a public school in New Jersey is under fire after she encouraged her students to write letters to notorious convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, who recently fell ill in prison.

Marylin Zuniga teaches language arts and social studies at Forest Street School in Orange, N.J."

Third-Grade Teacher Has Students Write ‘Get Well’ Cards To Cop Killer Mumia Abu-Jamal



2. - School's Nation of Islam Handout Paints Founding Fathers as Racists


"School's Nation of Islam Handout Paints Founding Fathers as Racists
The teacher also told Sommer that her son was not supposed to take the Nation of Islam handout home. It was supposed to stay in the classroom. That bit of news caused her great alarm.
“The fact that students were cautioned against allowing their parents to see anything is deeply troubling,” West told me. “The only reasonable explanation is they don’t want parents to know what it is their children are learning.”

3. Under pressure from transgender activists, progressive politicians, teacher unions, and the education establishment, and despite parents’ opposition, America’s public schools are capitulating to ideologues and implementing the radical transgender agenda with full force.
...regardless of biological sex, .... Activists want every child, from kindergarten on, to learn that “sex” is something “assigned at birth” rather than a biological reality. They want children to think that individuals get to choose their own “gender identity” (not limited to male or female), and that everyone else must affirm that “gender identity” as true.


...nothing that parents (or teachers) can do to prevent the schools from imposing policies designed to indoctrinate children with gender ideology.

In public education, the “deep state” describes a coalition of various groups – including teachers’ unions, progressive advocacy groups, major corporations, and philanthropists --that work together to promote the progressive worldview..."
America’s Public Education System: The Ultimate Deep State





4. The National Education Association approved a new "business item" expressing support for abortion access during its annual conference in Houston.

"[T]he NEA will include an assertion of our defense of a person's right to control their own body, especially for women, youth, and sexually marginalized people," the resolution states. "The NEA vigorously opposes all attacks on the right to choose and stands on the fundamental right to abortion under Roe v. Wade."

The NEA is the largest teachers' union in the U.S. with more than 3 million members. It collected nearly $400 million from American educators in 2018, according to federal labor filings. The union is also one of the most politically active in the country, spending $70 million on politics and lobbying in 2017 and 2018. Nearly all of the union's political action committee spending went to Democrats during the midterm cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.


NEA's 2019 adopted New Business Items (NBIs) reveal what savvy teachers have known for decades: state and national teachers' unions are essentially the political action committee of the Far-Left,"
Largest U.S. Teachers' Union Endorses Abortion




5. the 20-minute video being shown in American classrooms entitled The

Story of Stuff; a catchy title to appeal to grade school kids. This piece of anti-capitalist propaganda was

put together by Greenpeace member Annie Leonard.







6. NYC schools allow kids to go on #ClimateStrike
“TEN YEARS. We have ten years to save the planet,” Mayor Bill de Blasio cautioned in a tweet. “Today’s leaders are making decisions for our environment that our kids will have to live with. New York City stands with our young people. They’re our conscience. We support the 9/20 #ClimateStrike.”

Legions of adolescent activists across the globe are expected to demand immediate action to combat climate change in advance of a major UN conference on the issue next week.

As long as mom and dad sanction their principled truancy, absent kids won’t have attendance records dinged, the DOE said.

The September 20th event will feature Sweden’s “Climate Crisis” sweetheart, 16-year old Greta Thunberg.

Teen activist and Swedish sensation Greta Thunberg, who recently docked her zero-emissions sailboat in New York, will speak at the event which will snake its way through lower Manhattan to Battery Park.

Kids with parental permission to attend will be granted excused absences from school, Education Department officials tweeted Thursday.

The infamous “Green New Deal” will be promoted as well.

The New York City climate strike is backed by more than 100 environmental and political activist groups and other institutions, including New York Communities for Change, The New School and the Sierra Club.

The protesters’ demands include a “Green New Deal” that would end fossil fuel extraction and move the nation onto entirely renewable energy sources by 2030. Green New Deal policies have been backed by the likes of U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Personally, if I were one of the kids, I might argue about going to school at all. After all, if the Earth only has 10 more years before we are going to die, wouldn’t it be better to spend the time having fun or spending quality time with family?

On the other hand, if the New York City school officials were really invested in solving the climate crisis, wouldn’t they emphasize science and math? Perhaps keeping the kids in school and having them conduct experiments or perform calculations would inspire an interest in real climate science.

One theory that seems to prove true and is certainly consistent with what is happening with the New York City schools: When global problems are emphasized by locals, serious local matters are being ignored.

Case in point: New York state test results for third- through eighth-grade public school students are out, and the results are underwhelming.

Statewide, more than half the kids flunked yet again: Just 45.4% were deemed proficient in reading and 46.7% in math. In the city, 47.4% passed the reading test, while 45.6% got by in math.

Think the problem’s skimpy funding? Sorry: In 2017, the Empire Center’s E.J. McMahon reported in May, New York shelled out 89% more per kid than the national average. And that gap has been growing fast: In 1997, per-pupil outlays here were just 45% above average.

…In the city Thursday, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza tried to spin the results positively. The pass rate in English, they noted, is up 0.7 percentage points — and three whole points in math.

“Growth counts for something,” Carranza insisted.

Huh? That paltry uptick is what they’re proud of? Even though more than half the kids bombed? Please.

Notably, kids in the one category of public schools de Blasio and Carranza (and their union pals) don’t run — i.e., the charters — beat their counterparts in the regular schools by more than 10 percentage points in both English and math.

At least the kids won’t be flying private jets to attend the event. That makes them substantially less hypocritical than the celebrities who will be indoctrinating them during the Manhattan event.



NYC schools allow kids to go on #ClimateStrike



7. “Fifth-grade teacher defends wearing 'Columbus was a murderer' shirt to school” This story is no longer available - Washington Times earing-columbus-was-a/

8. “Seattle Public Schools Say Math Is Racist
The Seattle Public Schools Ethnic Studies Advisory Committee (ESAC) released a rough draft of notes for its Math Ethnic Studies framework in late September, which attempts to connects math to a history of oppression.” Seattle Public Schools Say Math Is Racist

9. “The sex and gender revolutionaries have officially taken over the Austin Independent School District without firing a single shot. In spite of overwhelming opposition from parents and pastors, the district’s trustees voted early Tuesday morning to implement a pornographic sex education policy that includes instruction on anal sex and how to place a condom on an erect penis.

The father of a fifth grader demanded to know who gave the school district the right to teach his child how to have anal and oral sex.” Texas School District Implements Pornographic Sex Education Policy

10.” It appears the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), which held a solidarity rally this Saturday afternoon, …. seemed more like a convention of far-left radicals than the image of clean-cut teachers the CTU would like to project. Thousands of red-shirted Chicago Teachers Union members flooded into Chicago’s aptly named Union Square Park at noon today to demonstrate for solidarity and workers’ rights. Protesters embraced radical revolutionary imagery, wearing shirts with Che Guevara on them and holding signs emblazoned with the “iron fist.”

Occupy Chicago and anarchist groups as well as the Progressive Labor Party, International Socialists, SEIU, AFL-CIO, and others stood alongside teachers chanting for solidarity…” Radical left coalesces around Chicago Teacher protest


More



In the vid, teacher’s union with the Socialist iron fist banner…







11. “Racial Literacy Curriculum,” elementary schools in Virginia, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, California, Rhode Island, Missouri, and Illinois have all adopted the mind-blowing, politically-charged brainwash that they tout as education. Topics for Kindergarten to Grade 8 include: implicit bias, white privilege, intersectionality, LGBTQ issues, racism as a “primary institution of the US,” and other such leftist agenda talking points.” EXCLUSIVE: New Leftist ‘Racial Literacy Curriculum’ Brainwashing Elementary School Children

12. The Pollyana Curriculum…nationwide

“Beginning in Grade 3, the Pollyanna "Racial Literacy Curriculum" asks students to become activists in order to achieve leftist goals. The 3rd Grade chapter is entitled "Stories of Activism – How One Voice Can Change a Community." The expected result is for students to understand "how we can be agents of communal, social, political, and environmental change."

…Pollyanna takes leftist activism to new heights, fabricating an image of a racist America that children are taught to rebel against.

By Grade 8,after nine years of acute indoctrination, the children are ready to fight on behalf of leftists in America. "tudents will set commitments for rectifying current social ills, such as learning and planning how to carry out anti-racist activism and/or social advocacy in their communities and/or to improve their everyday lives." The 8th Grade chapter is entitled "Racism as a Primary 'Institution' of the U.S. – How We May Combat Systemic Inequality." EXCLUSIVE: Leftist Activism Is A Requirement Of New Elementary School Curriculum



13. “Minnesota ‘Teacher of the Year’ takes knee during National Anthem at NCAA title game” Minnesota ‘Teacher of the Year’ takes knee during National Anthem at NCAA title game | The College Fix

14. "School in Brooklyn Hands Out “Drag Queen in Training” Stickers to 4-Year-Olds” School in Brooklyn Hands Out “Drag Queen in Training” Stickers to 4-Year-Olds

15. “Teacher: “No Regrets” for Desecrating American Flag in Classroom” Teacher: “No Regrets” for Desecrating American Flag in Classroom

 

[Gdjjr]

To "educate" is merely to pass on knowledge. I did say "merely" for a reason.
*Proper* education has to have a foundation, based in truths- readin', writin', and 'rithmetic-
With those three skills mastered one can learn anything he or she wants.

The "system" is set up to pass on certain knowledge. It would appear to be what best serves the few and not the many. The few being those considered to be atop the food chain. That would include Republicans. And Democrats vote too. That would be to become compliant not independent, physically or mentally, especially intellectually, but, if you're lucky you can become semi-financially independent, though not entirely no matter how many federal reserve notes you're *worth*. Then, if you don't subscribe to *a* policy, Republican or Democrat, depending on which way the wind is blowing you become "the evil rich" who should be heavily taxed since they know (whoever they may be) you're accumulation of federal reserve notes wasn't honestly acquired- and you become an enemy vs a tool- of the people (less lucky) or the politico's Republican and/or Democrat.

No thinking outside the box allowed as is evident when dealing with customer service reps- (anecdotally, just this past week dealing with a customer service rep they are now referred to by the robot voice as "executive account manager")- LOL- really? Executive! I suppose it makes some feel better, but, at the end of the day, they're script readers.

There have been, in my life time, several times Republicans have been in control of the District of Criminals-
yet, here we are floundering around waiting for gov't approval to live- it's what we've had ingrained since birth by Republicans and Democrats-

 

[Gdjjr]

I don't disagree about being lost, But, I will point out, these United States, (continental united states), being a land mass in North America being between Canada to the North and Central America to the South, so a misnomer doesn't strengthen an argument, no matter if a staunch Republican or Democrat uses it and it simply adds to the problem(s) with proper education, especially regarding reading- I will, however, disagree about it being all the Democrats fault since Republicans only pay lip service to countering the effects, to wit the foregoing explanation about the US directed to BOTH sides of the Party duopoly-

 

[PoliticalChic]

To "educate" is merely to pass on knowledge. I did say "merely" for a reason.
*Proper* education has to have a foundation, based in truths- readin', writin', and 'rithmetic-
With those three skills mastered one can learn anything he or she wants.

The "system" is set up to pass on certain knowledge. It would appear to be what best serves the few and not the many. The few being those considered to be atop the food chain. That would include Republicans. And Democrats vote too. That would be to become compliant not independent, physically or mentally, especially intellectually, but, if you're lucky you can become semi-financially independent, though not entirely no matter how many federal reserve notes you're *worth*. Then, if you don't subscribe to *a* policy, Republican or Democrat, depending on which way the wind is blowing you become "the evil rich" who should be heavily taxed since they know (whoever they may be) you're accumulation of federal reserve notes wasn't honestly acquired- and you become an enemy vs a tool- of the people (less lucky) or the politico's Republican and/or Democrat.

No thinking outside the box allowed as is evident when dealing with customer service reps- (anecdotally, just this past week dealing with a customer service rep they are now referred to by the robot voice as "executive account manager")- LOL- really? Executive! I suppose it makes some feel better, but, at the end of the day, they're script readers.

There have been, in my life time, several times Republicans have been in control of the District of Criminals-
yet, here we are floundering around waiting for gov't approval to live- it's what we've had ingrained since birth by Republicans and Democrats-

"The "system" is set up to pass on certain knowledge."

Let's see how that's workin' out......

“The Dumbest Generation”​

“To Mark Bauerlein, a professor of English at Emory University, the present is a good time to be young only if you don't mind a tendency toward empty-headedness. In "The Dumbest Generation," he argues that cultural and technological forces, far from opening up an exciting new world of learning and thinking, have conspired to create a level of public ignorance so high as to threaten our democracy.

If the new hours in front of the computer were subtracting from television time, there might be something encouraging to say about the increasingly interactive quality of youthful diversions. The facts, at least as Mr. Bauerlein marshals them, show otherwise: TV viewing is constant. The printed word has paid a price – from 1981 to 2003, the leisure reading of 15- to 17-year-olds fell to seven minutes a day from 18. But the real action has been in multitasking. By 2003, children were cramming an average of 8½ hours of media consumption a day into just 6½ hours – watching TV while surfing the Web, reading while listening to music, composing text messages while watching a movie.

This daily media binge isn't making students smarter. The National Assessment of Educational Progress has pegged 46% of 12th-graders below the "basic" level of proficiency in science, while only 2% are qualified as "advanced." Likewise in the political arena: Participatory Web sites may give young people a "voice," but their command of the facts is shaky. Forty-six percent of high-school seniors say it's " 'very important' to be an active and informed citizen," but only 26% are rated as proficient in civics. Between 1992 and 2005, the NAEP reported, 12th-grade reading skills dropped dramatically. (As for writing, Naomi Baron, in her recent book, "Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World," cites the NAEP to note that "only 24% of twelfth-graders are 'capable of composing organized, coherent prose in clear language with correct spelling and grammar.' ") Conversation is affected, too. Mr. Bauerlein sums up part of the problem: "The verbal values of adulthood and adolescence clash, and to enter adult conditions, individuals must leave the verbal mores of high school behind. The screen blocks the ascent."

What frustrates Mr. Bauerlein is not these deficits themselves – it's the way a blind celebration of youth, and an ill-informed optimism about technology, have led the public to ignore them. "Over and over," he writes, "commentators stress the mental advance, the learning side over the fun and fantasy side." Steven Johnson, in his best-selling "Everything Bad Is Good for You," describes videogames as "a kind of cognitive workout." Jonathan Fanton of the MacArthur Foundation writes that children have created "communities the size of nations" where they explore "new techniques for personal expression." Such assessments, Mr. Bauerlein argues, are far too charitable.

Mr. Bauerlein contrasts such "evidence-lite enthusiasm" for digital technologies with a weightier learning tradition. He eulogizes New York's City College in the mid-20th century, a book-centered, debate-fostering place where a generation of intellectuals rejected the "sovereignty of youth" in favor of the concerted study of canonical texts and big ideas."

From Bookshelf- book review in the May 13, 2008 Wall Street Journal

 

[PoliticalChic]

I don't disagree about being lost, But, I will point out, these United States, (continental united states), being a land mass in North America being between Canada to the North and Central America to the South, so a misnomer doesn't strengthen an argument, no matter if a staunch Republican or Democrat uses it and it simply adds to the problem(s) with proper education, especially regarding reading- I will, however, disagree about it being all the Democrats fault since Republicans only pay lip service to countering the effects, to wit the foregoing explanation about the US directed to BOTH sides of the Party duopoly-

Which party is Bolshevik-light?


Hint: the same party that both owns the school system, and stands for the very same things the Communist Party USA stood for.


Take your time.

 

[Gdjjr]

Which party is Bolshevik-light?

That is irrelevant to anything I said, have said, or will say- try again.

 

[Gdjjr]

Let's see how that's workin' out......

That's immaterial to what I said and doesn't make your argument any stronger.

 

[PoliticalChic]

An 1895 8th Grade Final Exam: I Couldn't Pass It. Could You?
BY MARTIN PERETZ
November 28, 2010
An old pal from Brandeis—Sheldon Gray—has a knack for the ironic. He's very well educated, and so am I. But I don't know whether we could pass this test, from 1895 in what looks like a little red schoolhouse in Salina, Kansas, at all. Let alone with flying colors.

What it took to get an 8th grade education in 1895...

Remember when grandparents and great-grandparents stated that they only had an 8th grade education? Well, check this out. Could any of us have passed the 8th grade in 1895?

This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 in Salina , Kansas , USA .. It was taken from the original document on file at the Smokey Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, and reprinted by the Salina Journal.

8th Grade Final Exam:

Salina , KS - 1895

Grammar (Time, one hour)

1. Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters.
2. Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no modifications.
3. Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph.
4. What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of do, lie, lay and run.
5. Define Case, Illustrate each Case.
6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation.
7-10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.

Arithmetic (Time, 1.25 hours)

1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
2. A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?
3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at 50 cts. per bu, deducting 1050 lbs. for tare?
4. District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals?
5. Find cost of 6720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton.
6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at $.20 per inch?
8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.
9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance around which is 640 rods?
10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.

U.S. History (Time, 45 minutes)

1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided.
2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus.
3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.
4. Show the territorial growth of the United States.
5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas.
6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion.
7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe?
8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, and 1865?

Orthography (Time, one hour)

1. What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic orthography, etymology, syllabication?
2. What are elementary sounds? How classified?
3. What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals?
4. Give four substitutes for caret 'u'.
5. Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e'. Name two exceptions under each rule.
6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.
7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: Bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, super.
8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound: Card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last.
9. Use the following correctly in sentences, Cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.
10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication.

Geography (Time, one hour)

1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas?
3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?
4. Describe the mountains of N.A.
5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco.
6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S.
7. Name all the republics of Europe and give capital of each.
8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude?
9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers.
10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give inclination of the earth.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Let's see how that's workin' out......

That's immaterial to what I said and doesn't make your argument any stronger.

You Can’t Wake a Person Who Is Pretending to Be Asleep – Navajo Proverb

 

[PoliticalChic]

Today is the anniversary of the death of the Marxist who ended any real education of American children in government school.
"Paulo Freire, (born Sept. 19, 1921, Recife, Braz.—died May 2, 1997, São Paulo),

"Pedagogy of the Oppressor

Another reason why U.S. ed schools are so awful: the ongoing influence of Brazilian Marxist Paulo Freire

Pedagogy of the Oppressor

1. At a recent meeting of the New York Teaching Fellows program (“Teach for America”: provides an alternate route to state certification for about 1,700 new teachers annually) , Sol Stern found the one book that the fellows had to read in full was Pedagogy of the Oppressed, by the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire.

This book has achieved near-iconic status in America’s teacher-training programs. In 2003, David Steiner and Susan Rozen published a study examining the curricula of 16 schools of education—14 of them among the top-ranked institutions in the country, according to U.S. News and World Report—and found that Pedagogy of the Oppressed was one of the most frequently assigned texts in their philosophy of education courses.

1. But rather than dealing with the education of children, Pedagogy of the Oppressed mentions none of the issues that troubled education reformers throughout the twentieth century: testing, standards, curriculum, the role of parents, how to organize schools, what subjects should be taught in various grades, how best to train teachers, the most effective way of teaching disadvantaged students. This ed-school bestseller is, instead, a utopian political tract calling for the overthrow of capitalist hegemony and the creation of classless societies.
2. Freire isn’t interested in the Western tradition’s leading education thinkers—not Rousseau, not Piaget, not John Dewey, not Horace Mann, not Maria Montessori. He cites a rather different set of figures: Marx, Lenin, Mao, Che Guevara, and Fidel Castro, as well as the radical intellectuals Frantz Fanon, Régis Debray, Herbert Marcuse, Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Althusser, and Georg Lukács. And no wonder, since Freire’s main idea is that the central contradiction of every society is between the “oppressors” and the “oppressed” and that revolution should resolve their conflict. The “oppressed” are, moreover, destined to develop a “pedagogy” that leads them to their own liberation.
3. Freire never intends “pedagogy” to refer to any method of classroom instruction based on analysis and research, or to any means of producing higher academic achievement for students. [H]e relies on Marx’s standard formulation that “the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat [and] this dictatorship only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.” In one footnote, however, Freire does mention a society that has actually realized the “permanent liberation” he seeks: it “appears to be the fundamental aspect of Mao’s Cultural Revolution.”
4. The pedagogical point of Freire’s thesis : its opposition to taxing students with any actual academic content, which Freire derides as “official knowledge” that serves to rationalize inequality within capitalist society. One of Freire’s most widely quoted metaphors dismisses teacher-directed instruction as a misguided “banking concept,” in which “the scope of action allowed to the students extends only as far as receiving, filing and storing the deposits.” Freire proposes instead that teachers partner with their coequals, the students, in a “dialogic” and “problem-solving” process until the roles of teacher and student merge into “teacher-students” and “student-teachers.”

This is the eulogy for the death of education.