|
|
|
"The purpose of
Compulsory Education is to deprive
the common people of their commonsense."
—G.K.
Chesterton, ILN |
Are Compulsory School
Attendance Laws Necessary?
by Samuel L. Blumenfeld
Award-Winning Edu-Speak
by Linda Schrock Taylor
Bass-Ackward
Remediation
by Linda Schrock Taylor
Beyond the State: Parental Rights in the Education of Children
by
Gregory P. Randolph.
“...the real goal of those who seek to control elementary and
secondary education and to compel parents to send their children
exclusively to government-regulated schools is not their stated one.
Indeed, it appears that their true goal is not that students learn any
objective, defined body of knowledge. Rather, they seek to determine
where a student learns, how he learns, and ultimately what values he
will hold. This is sometimes hinted at in references to the importance
of children being able to get along with others who may be different
or live according to different values.” Acton Institute for the Study
of Religion and Liberty.
The Bible and the
Schools
by Joseph Sobran.
"The misguided “separation of church and state” has sundered American
children from their heritage. Nobody can be fully educated without knowing
the Bible: the stories of creation, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, the Great
Flood, Moses and the Exodus, Samson and Delilah, King David, King Solomon,
the sufferings of Job, Jonah, the great prophets, the fortunes of the
Israelites, the life and teachings of Christ, the Apostles, and the epistles
of Paul, not to mention the Psalms, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes."
Book
Review: FedEd; The New Federal Curriculum and How It's Enforced
Many of us have noticed that significant changes have taken place in
America's system of education. If you think it's simply a matter of
new educational theories, author Allen Quist will disagree. Simply
stated in his text, the restructuring of American education is all
about restructuring America.
Compulsory Government Education, By What Standard?
by Greg Perry.
“Unlike public school teachers, I don't blame the parents for the failure of
the schools. I blame the teachers who taught the parents. The government
schools are a complete and utter failure. They should be closed.”
Cultivating Educational Wastelands
by Russell Kirk. "The United States now is the great power in the
world. Nevertheless, who can praise an educational system that turns
out young people marvelously ignorant-except for a very small
minority-of history, geography, and foreign languages, and so,
unfitted to have much of anything to do with concerns larger than
those of their own neighborhood? Worse still, what future have a
people whose schooling has enabled them, at best, to ascertain the
price of everything-but the value of nothing? We Americans stand today
politically dominant, intellectually enfeebled. Conservatives have
before them a complex work of intellectual restoration."
Department of Education must be abolished
"Most Americans believe "communism is dead," but nothing could be
further from the truth and one of the major goals of the propagators
of global communist tyranny has always been to get control of
America's education system. What better way to reach "the unwashed
masses" than through a federal department of education?" Sound too
'1984'? Read the article by Devvy Kidd at WorldNetDaily.
The Dewey Legend In American Education
Towering above all other names in the field of educational philosophy
is that of John Dewey. Dewey has had more influence over the theory
and practice of public education than any modern thinker. As Father
Hardon shows in this 1952 Education Digest article, the seeds of
Dewey’s philosophy were already sprouting in the early 50's and the
fruit was rotten. Understanding Dewey and the mistakes he made from
the point of view of a proper Christian anthropology is going a long
way to understanding the problems in public education in our own day.
By Fr. John Hardon.
Educating for Damnation
by Joseph Sobran. "Any rational discussion of education must
begin with the things every child needs to know; and this depends on
how we conceive of human nature. But such questions are now regarded
as hopelessly abstract and impractical, even taboo."
Education Myths: What Special-Interest Groups Want You to Believe About Our
Schools and Why it Isn't So by Jay P. Greene, Hardcover: $16.47
The Education Tax Racket
by Lew Rockwell.
“The goal is to keep the kids in school so that they and their parents can
be taught the merits of the system (the entire government sector) that keeps
them there. In other words, it’s a glorified tax scam, just another racket
to extract money from the public so that it can be transferred to the
pockets of bureaucrats.”
Educational Options: Picking Through the Debris
by Steven LaTulippe
"Free"
Education and Literacy
by Barry Dean Simpson
Gatto And
Goldberg Saved My Sanity
by Linda Schrock Taylor. "I have finally faced the fact that
government education cannot be reformed; cannot be saved. I recommend Gatto's History to anyone strong enough to handle the shock –
of learning that most of what we were taught in school were illusions,
lies, and purposeful, pre-determined programming."
Government Cradle Robbing
by Timothy D. Terrell. Statist attempts to control childhood education date back to the ancient
Greeks, at least. The Spartans brought 7-year-old boys into barracks and
entrusted their subsequent education and training to the government. At
least the Spartans had the decency to wait until age 7.
The Graves of Academe
by Richard Mitchell.
Why can't our nation, read, write, cipher or think? The Underground
Grammarian takes on the American education establishment.
How government control—even local—has ruined public education. And what you
can do about it
by Marshall Fritz.
Government schooling is not about instilling respect for reason. Rather,
it's about a promising career with social and financial success. This is the
root of the crisis in American education.
"TYRANNY is always and
everywhere the same, while freedom is always various. The well and
truly enslaved are dependable; we know what they will say and
think and do. The free are quirky. Tyrannies may be overt and
violent or covert and insidious, but they all require the same
thing, a subject population in which the power of the word is
dulled and, thus, the power of thought occluded and the power of
deed brought low. That’s why Lenin’s bolshevism and American
educationism have so much in common."
—The Leaning Tower of Babel
by Richard Mitchell |
Inside American Education
by Thomas Sowell (Author). An indictment of the American educational
system criticizes the fact that the system has discarded the
traditional goals of transmitting knowledge and fostering cognitive
skills in favor of building self-esteem and promoting social
harmony.
John Taylor Gatto
Perhaps the greatest of school's illusions is that the institution
was launched by a group of kindly men and women who wanted to help
the children of ordinary families—to level the playing field, so to
speak. See what Gatto has to say about these illusions.
Let My
Children Go
by Father Vincent Fitzpatrick. "Every Christian child has a right to
a Christian education. The Popes for the past two centuries have
reiterated this truth countless times. Why particularly since about
1820? Because it is only since about then that the State, first in
Europe, a little later in America, has arrogated to itself the task
of schooling – non-Christian schooling, of course."
Let My
Children Go: A New Case for Abandoning Government Schools
by Steven Yates
Master Plan for Education--Universal Preschool: Does it really help
children? Is it worth the cost?
by Karen Holgate, California Family Council
The Myth
of Teacher Qualifications
by Chris Klicka, Senior Counsel for HSLDA. “Some of the worst
teachers I’ve ever seen are highly certified. Look at our public
schools. They’re full of certified teachers. What kind of magic is
that accomplishing? But I can take you to the best teachers I’ve
ever seen, and most of them are uncertified.... We don’t have
evidence at all that what we do in schools of education makes much
difference in teacher competence.”
—Dr. Donald Ericksen, UCLA
Privatize American Education
by Jon E. Dougherty
Public
Education Fails
Charlie Reese tells it like it is.
The Problem of Public Schools
by Dr. Arthur Hippler. Pope after pope has warned us about the
dangers of education separated from religion and Christian morality.
A
Real Education
by James Ostrowski. The single greatest obstacle to creating a free
society is government's control over education.
Separation of School & State
Alliance
Politics and education don't mix! Add your
name to the Proclamation.
A Short
Angry History of American Forced Schooling
by John Taylor Gatto. Gatto is the former New York State Teacher of
the Year who renounced the government school system in his landmark
book
Dumbing Us Down.
Suffer the Children
by Ursula Stange. "At a time when the economy everywhere is in the
doldrums, education remains a growth industry. It continues to
provide lucrative careers to a veritable army of teachers, teachers
of teachers, administrators, consultants, civil servants, educators,
and textbook publishers, all of whom grow fat while their consumers,
conveniently small and powerless, starve. Everyone understands there
are many well-intentioned and competent teachers, perhaps even some
such administrators, but hardly anyone (except those making a profit
from it) thinks that the system works."
Textbook
America: The Teaching of History
by Walter Karp. Writing American history is a harmless occupation,
but teaching it to American schoolchildren is a political act with
far-reaching consequences.
The
Writing's On the Wall (Just Too Few Can Read It)
by Linda Schrock Taylor. "One only needs to observe high school
teachers trying to teach content subjects to such students – so many
of whom: lack basic foundations in elementary-level skills; have
spent too much time watching television; have had their minds and
senses drugged with too many hours of video game usage – to
understand why high school content becomes more dumbed down with
each passing year."
What Do They
Think Will Happen?
by Linda Schrock Taylor. "What do elementary teachers think will
happen to students who, lacking basic reading and functional math
skills, are passed on to higher grades?"…
Why Johnny
Can't Think: The Politics of Bad Schooling
by Walter Karp. Merit pay, a longer school year, more homework,
special schools for "the gifted," and more standardized tests will
not even begin to turn our public schools into nurseries of
"informed, active and questioning citizens." They are not meant to.
Why Public Schools Cannot Be Reformed
Marshall Fritz explains.
|
