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发帖数: 6571 | 1 July 25, 2016
K-12: Criminal Minds at Work
By Bruce Deitrick Price
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The date is 1900. Professor John Dewey and his cadre of "Progressives"
launch an ambitious scheme to transform the country. They want a more
collectivist society. For convenience, let's call their goal European
Socialism.
However, the United States is hostile to Socialism and Communism for another
hundred years. Beatrice Webb, founder of the Fabian Society in London,
decrees that the word "Socialism" shouldn't be used in America. The
recommended euphemism is "Progressivism" and, later on, Liberalism.
Socialism, as that term is generally understood, is what Dewey plans for us,
but he can't say it. He and his gang must dissemble at every turn. They
have to lie and, little by little, work outside the law.
Fabian Socialists willingly accept a subversive role. They operate as
saboteurs, like termites eating the foundations of a house. These secret
Socialists become "agents of influence" and "change agents" – all synonyms
for the same sneaks. They will change your world whether you like it or not
.
Note that these people are now conspirators working in secret. They can't
help being dishonest. In education, they are changing your children in ways
they have not explained and you have not approved. They promise to "
educate" your kid, but what they mean is that they will indoctrinate your
kid.
By 1925, a great deal of deception is normal. Tangled webs are woven.
Secret plots unfold in all directions. In K-12, the legacy going forward is
criminal. The DNA of the American Education Establishment is now fully
formed. We are stuck with it until this day.
Of course, these plotters do not think of themselves as criminals. They
think of themselves as a cultural and intellectual avant-garde. They are
the high priests of a new society, which Aldous Huxley satirized in Brave
New World (1931).
Here we confront an interesting moral question. How many deceptive schemes
can you undertake before you are just another midnight burglar, another
Mafioso?
This split runs deep through the whole field of education. Our colonizers
are the professors up at Columbia Teachers College and Harvard's Graduate
School of Education. They are arrogant and contemptuous people, and they
come bearing Socialism. Lucky you. You will accept this gift or else.
These professors view the great majority of people as peasants who must be
socially reengineered. Brains must be washed clean, souls flushed out,
heads filled with new values. Those are the secret projects ongoing
throughout K-12.
In his last book, Samuel Blumenfeld summed up the juggernaut this way: "K-12
education is a criminal enterprise from top to bottom." (His title tells
you everything: Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government
Schools to Destroy America's Children.)
The same story is told by Charlotte Iserbyt in The Deliberate Dumbing Down
of America and by John Taylor Gatto in his The Underground History of
American Education. Both books are available free on the internet.
These three books, and many others, reinforce the same crucial insight.
This country did not have a weird stretch of bad luck so that our schools
got dumber and dumber. Far from it. We have been the victims of a
continuous assault. Muggings are not accidents; they are violent crimes.
The average American is the target of this plot. The muggers are the
Education Establishment, serenely smug about their philosophical beliefs.
So-called "progressive" education is more invasive and hostile than most
parents ever realize. Socialists don't want to teach kids to read and count
; they want to rewire them philosophically and emotionally. Furthermore,
all this social engineering is wrapped in deception that renders it more
immoral. Our elite educators engage in deceptive advertising, bad faith,
mislabeling, and consumer fraud. A tangled web, indeed.
Our Education Establishment endlessly commits breach of promise and breach
of contract. When our education commissars take the job of running our
public schools, they implicitly promise to provide the practical,
traditional education that parents want and expect. However, our
educational elite have little interest in fulfilling that contract.
The Education Establishment knows very well what American parents want and
expect. They know that you believe that your kids will learn to read, do
arithmetic, etc. Forget about it.
Contempt has led to an unhealthy relationship. Promising one thing and
delivering another makes the whole operation a con.
Many children can't read. They can't do basic arithmetic. They don't know
the most basic information. All of that is made possible by the disdain and
malfeasance of the country's education commissars.
To accomplish its dirty work, our Education Establishment has two strategies
muddle whatever is left so that students don't understand or retain very
much.
How are we going to fix this? The people at the top are set in their ways.
Assume they will fight a rear guard action over every dumb theory. QED:
They have to be challenged and/or outflanked at every point.
Meanwhile, encourage all the forces that are not part of the Socialist
onslaught to look for better role models. The U.S. surely has 1,000 great
private schools, Montessori schools, and classical academies. Encourage
your local public school to copy those examples.
The official theories and methods are going to make your children dumb, so
eliminate those methods as much as possible.
Bruce Deitrick Price explains theories and methods on his education sites
Improve-Education.org. (For info on his four new novels, see his literary
site Lit4u.com.)
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