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.
Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, and education reformer. He has analyzed the problems in education for more than 30 years. Price is the author of "Saving K-12: What happened to our public schools? How do we fix them?" (190 pages) His main education site is Improve-Education.org. For more information about book and author, visit Lit4u.com. Newest novels are "Frankie" (about a harmless robot) and "The Boy Who Saves The World" (about a boy who saves the world).
"Bruce Price’s SAVING K-12 is a MUST read! It is precise, concise and powerful. Action is required…for the sake of our children, our grandchildren and the future of the American Republic!” Robert W. Sweet, Jr., long-time President of The National Right to Read Foundation
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price
Episode 194: The 8000-pound Guerrilla in the Classroom?? (Wed, March 19, 2025)
Episode 194: The 8000-pound Guerrilla in the Classroom??
Wed, March 19, 2025
The Comintern was all about winning. An idea could be really quite nasty and barbarous. But if it would win, they did it.
Promises changed. Lenin promised: “Land, bread, peace.” The peasants got none of that. Did you notice the casual way Kamala went from hating fracking to “Sure, I like fracking.”
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“I Led Three Lives” -- Give this episode 10 minutes and
you'll understand what it is to be a spy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKxUD7ryxdE
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LET'S FIX EDUCATION by Bruce Deitrick Price
Episode 194
Wed, March 19, 2025
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The 8000-pound Guerrilla in the Classroom??
Are you thinking I made a typo? The large animal that nobody notices is usually a gorilla. But our K-12 monster is better described as guerrilla. That’s “someone who carries on… irregular warfare; especially, a member of an independent band engaged in predatory excursions in war time.”
That is precisely what we're up against, people waging irregular warfare against our students and the whole society No bombs are thrown, no bullets fired. But there is a relentless military attack morning, noon and night.
For years, I've said that our Education Establishment has removed all good ideas from the schools. I didn't grasp the political events that made this possible. But new pieces fell into place. Now I can sum up the whole thing briefly; and you can discuss it with your friends and say oh my God, look at these psychos.
Near the end of World War I, the Communist Revolution succeeded in conquering Czarist Russia. They had defeated the White Russians, including American military units. They did whatever was required to win, that was always their MO. They became hugely confident.
Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin created the Communist International in 1919. These very tough guys thought that they could skip that whole Marxist rigamarole about industrialization and revolution. They would jump straight to the future by jerry-rigging dictatorial states on the run. The formula was violence, irrational changes, riots, endless propaganda and promises—everything that could make the public feel bewildered and desperate.
The Communist International, also known as Comintern, started arriving in America during 1920 and 1921. These people were not here for a social call. They were here to defeat the United States of America ASAP. Accept that statement and then everything else is easy.
The Comintern did not have the military firepower to achieve victory. They needed the willing participation of millions of Americans. This was obtained. by infiltrating the media, most political and cultural organizations, and especially education. Only 10 years later, these Vandals had control over our school system to the extent that phonics was effectively outlawed.
The decline of American literacy, which started in 1931, was so great 20 years later that Rudolf Flesch started writing a book called Why Johnny Can’t Read; and now we have 50 million functional illiterates, all because the Communists, even though they didn't win, inflicted huge damage on us. We have been in a 100-year war of attrition.
For me, the most striking thing about the Communist attack was its reckless improvisation. Every day was a good day to try some new approach, create some new front group, or declare new goals and new slogans.
Everything bad you've heard about Communists seems to be correct much more often than not. Point is, our public schools are full of destructive methods put there precisely for that reason. We expect religions and political groups to push ideology. What we see in our schools is another step. The “experts” have designed education from the ground up so it doesn’t work, the best example being sight-words.
To quickly get up-to-date on this podcast and its topic, ask your favorite AI about the Comintern and its Second World Congress of 1920. In 1950s there was a TV program on for three years called I Led Three Lives, which shows how dedicated Communists worked to destroy their nominal country.
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“I Led Three Lives” -- Give this episode 10 minutes and
you'll understand what it is to be a spy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKxUD7ryxdE