Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price
Savvy, practical insights on where our Education Establishment went wrong and how most schools can be improved.LET'S FIX EDUCATION explains the many dysfunctional theories and methods operating within our schools. This podcast is intended for parents, teachers, and community leaders who want education reform.
Each week, LET'S FIX EDUCATION examines another problem in our public schools, such as: Constructivism. Learning styles. Sight-words. No memorization. Cooperative learning. Prior knowledge. Reform math. The dilution of knowledge. Common Core. Project-based learning. Student-centered, etc. In fact, there are DOZENS of counterproductive learning and teaching theories, all made worse by ideological motives.
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Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price
Episode 117: Think piece: WHY AND HOW ELITE EDUCATORS DESTROY EDUCATION
Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023
For more than 125 years, Education has been a field dominated by far-left thinking. Instead of reading, writing, arithmetic, and other traditional academic content, these ideologues emphasize social engineering and psychological manipulation.
These concerns should not be primary in an educational institution. Worst of all, these pretenders were fanatics, always ready to lie on behalf of their quasi-religion.
So this is a short explanation of how our public schools ended up without a soul or a brain. Relentless lying justified killing off both.
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Let's Fix Education explains to Americans why their schools are so bad. The people in charge prefer mediocrity because they are socialists of one kind or another. If people work together to promote real education, we'll have it.
LET'S FIX EDUCATION by Bruce Deitrick Price
Episode 117 -- Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023
Think piece: WHY AND HOW ELITE EDUCATORS DESTROY EDUCATION
Ladies and gentlemen
For the centuries leading up to 1900, through the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, our smartest people sang the joys of learning, of knowledge, of understanding the world. But John Dewey and colleagues said, Nah, all that stuff is overrated; in its place, we bring you ignorance. (Ignorance, as Orwell would mockingly assert, is Strength.).
Politically, our educators wanted less religion, less family influence, and less free enterprise. They wanted more socialism, more secularism, more world government, and they wanted to be the true rulers of that government..
Education, a new field, was born in the same test tube as another new field, Psychology. All the early people studied in both areas, circa 1880. Most of them studied in Germany and were influenced by a Germanic/Hegelian sensibility which exalts society and denies importance to the individual. To make things worse, all of the foregoing got mixed up with a love for psychoanalytic theory, conditioning techniques, and running rats through mazes. What the Psychologists did with rats, the Educators wanted to do with children.
THE CRISIS CONTINUES: Education can be used for two opposite purposes, to liberate or to control. George Washington, Ben Franklin, all the other founding fathers, assumed that education in America would be a tool for liberation. Should have been, could have been. Quite unexpectedly, our educators went the other way.
Why did these early educators go wrong? They believed Karl Marx?? They studied in Germany and absorbed a Teutonic love of community and herd?? They bought into a psychiatric vision which viewed children and rats in kindred terms?? They wanted to be movers and shakers in a Brave New World?? They were arrogant pipsqueaks?? All of the above, that is my guess.
Thus in 1979 Gene Lyons could write in his bombshell article “Why Teachers Can’t Teach” that teacher education was “a mammoth and very expensive swindle of the public interest, a hoax, and an intellectual disgrace.” In 1983 a government panel issued the famous “Nation at Risk” report, which contained this wonderfully deadpan indictment: “If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.” In 1990, Rita Kramer visited some of the best ed schools and wrote a book titled “Ed School Follies,” noting that what struck her most forcefully was how little the activities in these places had any connection to intellectual ideas or what the children would learn, but everything to do with “socialization.”
To justify ideas that don’t work, our elite educators have become a full-time Department of Disinformation. A million lies told about phonics would be one example. But let’s just glance at the single most prevalent and destructive con of them all: In order to help the less smart, we need to stifle the more smart.
IN CONCLUSION: If you’re a socialist or if for whatever reason you want our country weak, you have to feel deeply pleased with the job done by our top educators. Otherwise, you cannot be pleased. Sadly, the crisis will probably continue until we systematically terminate each of the bad ideas put in place by a small gang of conspirators. First step: face the truth. Education in America’s public schools is often a twilight zone deliberately created. All we need, to take education to another level, is profound respect for each student’s talent and intelligence, and a genuine desire to help each student succeed as much as possible.
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ADDENDUM: My big theme is that K-12 education is a nasty swamp because a) the PhD educators want it that way and b) the public didn't stop them. Please be more involved with the decline in K-12. I write widely about the problems and what we might do. Take a look at Support Education Reform-- http://spot.fund/SupportEducationReform