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Skip to comments.Six Roads to Dysfunctional Schools
Posted on 04/22/2011 8:37:56 AM PDT by IbJensen
Many wonder why American public schools are so dysfunctional.
This question is more easily answered than you might suppose.
Throughout the 20th century, the Education Establishment devised scores of seemingly sophisticated pedagogies. Aggressively sold as ways to make schools effective and students smarter, these celebrated methods invariably turned out to render education less effective and students more ignorant.
Lets take a quick look at a half-dozen of the most famous concoctions. I predict youll have a startling realization: all of these things are counterproductive. Worse still, they seem to be that way by design.
Consider a seemingly harmless and even appealing method called Self-Esteem. When educators claim that this new approach will lead to greater self-esteem, the public says, go ahead, surely everyone needs more of that! In practice, teachers are expected to give praise even when students dont make an effort; students become complacent and less industrious. Even worse, you have a relentless pressure against making academic demands on children, because failure will damage their self-esteem. You see where this is going? Finally, the teacher says, Hello, class! Youre wonderful. That is all that can happen. The moment the teacher actually teaches, the self-esteem levels will drop, which cannot be tolerated. Self-Esteem, all by itself, can render a school null and void.
Constructivisms basic claim is that children must invent their own new knowledge. A mountain of so-called research make this process sound as if it is wonderful, necessary, and inevitable. But we need to ask, how would children learn the names of the states or the important events of the American Revolution? Now you start to see the flaw: basic information can rarely be taught with Constructivism. A child might need hours or days to construct his way to a page of facts. The teacher must constantly nudge children toward their discovery of new knowledge, much as children are given hints to find Easter egg. In fact, these magical events wont usually happen at all. Constructivism is vastly popular now in the public schools, a good explanation for why kids know so little.
The Education Establishment came up with two slogans that have been used relentlessly for more than 60 years: Rote memorization is bad and They can look it up. This gospel (which cuts across all subject and all grades) states that children shouldnt bother retaining information. Lets confront what the Education Establishment is actually saying here: students should have empty heads. (Testing is kept soft and subjective so that students are not often asked if they know or dont know something.) Since the time of John Dewey, there was always a hostility toward teaching foundational knowledge in the first place. But demonizing memory is the easiest way to make sure that, should anything be taught, nobody can recall what it was.
The whole point of Deweys collectivist theory is to create cooperative children. They work and play well together. The next step invariably was to put four or five children at little tables, to let them think of themselves as a group, not individuals. Work will be performed by the group. There was no individual achievement, only group achievement; no individual blame, only group blame. As a practical matter, children never learn how to think for themselves or act by themselves. They always have the shelter and comfort of being inside of a group. The better students carry the weaker students, and everybodys grades are muddled. But thats the point in the collectivist classroom.
There are many separate curricula under those three headings, and yet they all have one thing in common: they mix advanced, complicated math with elementary arithmetic. The sales pitch is that children will learn to appreciate math at a higher level. The actual result is that children dont learn to do basic arithmetic. The proper way to teach arithmetic is that children master the simple stuff (1+2=3), then move to the less simple, then to the intermediate, and so on. New Math and its intellectual descendants were failures, and were abusive to children. Learning long division is hard enough. Just imagine that the crazies at your school mix in base-eight, set theory, some Boolean algebra, geometry, and pre-trig. Result: almost nobody can do arithmetic in a confident, automatic way.
Focus on the central fact that English is a phonetic language, like Latin and French. Its alphabet and word forms were designed to quickly communicate phonetic information, that is, you see a b, B, b, a script b, or B in any of hundreds of typefaces), and your brain immediately knows: buh-. English words are so similar; and every word comes in many different forms: bright, BRIGHT, etc. Its almost impossible for an ordinary human to memorize even 1,000 of these shifty little designs, never mind the 50,000+ word-shapes you need. But the Education Establishment pushed Whole Word relentlessly, claiming that children must memorize the English language one word at a time as graphic configurations. I would argue that Whole Word is prima facie impossible. Memorizing even a few hundred sight-words can take several years; so literacy happens very slowly. All the things that children used to learn in the first, second, third and fourth grades became impossible, not just reading but also geography, history, etc. Whole Word is, I believe, the official hoax of the Education Establishment. Its the paradigm of bad education. It cant work. It hurts children.
Its good to acknowledge how clever, slinky and difficult-to-understand these six approaches are. The average parent doesnt have a chance. I bet the average teacher has no clue that these things are toxic waste. Administered with love, they are still toxic. A library has been written extolling these methods. For me to debunk them in a paragraph is a tall order. But Im hoping I can tempt you to linger over each analysis long enough to feel the contradiction, the sticking point, the sophistry that finally makes these things fall apart in the classroom.
John Dewey and all the people who succeeded him were avowed Socialists. They wanted to make a new world. and as the New York Times once observed in defense of Stalins starving the Ukraine into submission, if you want to make an omelet, you have to break a few eggs. Or a hundred million American kids.
The six gimmicks discussed could be called bait-and-switch. One thing is promised, something else is delivered. But I think these six are of a higher order, more like big-time magic acts. Im thinking of the really good tricks where you stare in wonderment and stammer: howd he do that?? Each of these things, we are told, is the best, most modern, most wonderful way to teach; but the kids inexplicably end up crippled and lobotomized. Howd the educators do that? When did it happen? The tiger was there, suddenly its gone. Like the kids future.
Coda: its crucial to get rid of these tricks. Thats the easiest, cheapest way to improve public education. Schools have to leave the indoctrination business, toss aside the gimmicks, and return to the education business. Teachers actually teach. Kids actually learn.
(See related essays on Improve-Education.org: 42: Reading Resources, 45: The Crusade Against Knowledge, 52: The Conspiracy Chronicles, and others.)
Study American public education and you will probably reach a point where you are reluctant to look further; because you have started to sense just how perverse the field is, and how dumb and destructive many of its practices are.
Conversely, the easiest way to improve education is to rein in current bad practice.
Bruce Price - is the founder of Improve-Education.org, a lively intellectual site with articles on Latin, birds, Pavlov, phonics, sophistry, 1984, the assault on math, design, teaching science, why our educators do a bad job, and much more.
How to put a condom on a banana is hardly education. The skulls full of mush will then believe that they can have sexual relations as long as they have a banana and a condom with them.
Here it is in a nutshell: a politicized, politically correct educational establishment that teaches garbage in the interest of social engineering lies at fault. Which is why home-schooled kids typically do better by all objective measures.
Allow me to simplify this: teach crap, get crap. And that's your problem right there.
I would say that you could do all of these things but if we do not return to expelling problem students that improvement will be marginal.
I also will say that there is no way public institutions will be able to compete with home-school cooperatives running advanced curricula.
What a clear, concise, and accurate summing up of several of education's big problems!
We should try and give high school seniors a 1958 graduation test and see how they do. It would be an eye opener as to how much they have learned. California only has, about, a 50% graduation rate and we are told they need more money? Amazing. We should also cut teachers pay every year that the graduation rate is below 80% and not allow them to dumb down the education to accomplish this. Also, tenure should go out the window.
Watch these YouTubes of James Clavell's (author of Shogun, Nobel House) short story, The Children's Story. James Clavell saw the possibility of the re-education of children via the public schools as an issue back in the 1980's.
Many people don't seem to grasp the significance of it but but the schools was where Hitler solidified his death grip on Germany. He weaponized the youth and put a little gestapo informer in every home.
The German people learned to fear their children with good reason.
Forced busing destroyed America's metropolitan schools. Everything else is just so much twaddle.
Yep. Let's see.
1, I don't do any group work. Students stand or fall on their own.
2, I drill. I want students to know stuff automatically. I try to give them mnemonics that will help their recall.
3, I break down new words using old words. That's what phonics is all about.
So yeah, my students are starting to pick up that I teach differently. It took them 6 months but they are asking me why I am doing this.
The intentional dumbing down began with the socialist Dewey in the 30's. All curricula was infected by the 50's in the public schools....led to the sexual revolution in the 60's....designed by the cultural Marxists Gramsci, Lukacs, Marcuse, etc.....(like Bill Ayers) . These evil individuals have been allowed to indoctrinate our children — kill the Christian paradigm and natural family—to destroy the individualism and self reliance that this paradigm had created—to create the atheist dysfunctional hedonism that we see today.
These Marxists have got to be kicked out of the elite circles that write curricula. Eakman writes about the evil methodologies which are designed to create hedonistic, self-indulgent atheists...who will be easily herded and controlled by totalitarianism.
There would probably be fewer behavior problems if the schools actually dropped the stupid programs that make students feel stupid.
Excerpts from Zacharias Montgomery:
"My countrymen, disguise the fact as we may, there is in this country to-day, and in both the political Parties, an element which is ripe for a centralized despotism. There are men and corporations of vast wealth, whose iron grasp spans this whole continent, and who find it more difficult and more expensive to corrupt thirty odd State Legislatures than one Federal Congress. It was said of Nero of old that he wished the Roman people had but one head, so that he might cut it off at a single blow. And so it is with those moneyed kings who would rule this country through bribery, fraud, and intimidation.
"It is easy to see how, with all the powers of government centered at Washington in one Federal head, they could at a single stroke put an end to American liberty.
"But they well understand that before striking this blow the minds of the people must be prepared to receive it. And what surer or safer preparation could possibly be made than is now being made, by indoctrinating the minds of the rising generation with the idea that ours is already a consolidated government ; that the States of the Union have no sovereignty which is not subordinate to the will and pleasure of the Federal head, and that our Constitution is the mere creature of custom, and may therefore be legally altered or abolished by custom.
"Such are a few of the pernicious and poisonous doctrines which ten millions of American children are today drinking in with the very definitions of the words they are compelled to study. And yet the man who dares to utter a word of warning of the approaching danger is stigmatized as an enemy to education and unfit to be men tioned as a candidate for the humblest office.
"Be it so. Viewing this great question as I do, not for all the offices in the gift of the American people would I shrink from an open and candid avowal of my sentiments. If I have learned anything from the reading of history, it is that the man who, in violation of great principles, toils for temporary fame, purchases for himself either total oblivion or eternal infamy, while he who temporarily goes down battling for right principles always deserves, and generally secures, the gratitude of succeeding ages, and will carry with him the sustaining solace of a clean conscience, more precious than all the offices and honors in the gift of man.
"History tells us that Aristides was voted into banishment because he was just. Yet who would not a thousand times rather today be Aristides than be numbered amongst the proudest of his persecutors.
"Socrates, too, in violation of every principle of justice, was con demned to a dungeon and to death. Yet what name is more honored in history than his? And which of his unjust judges would not gladly, hide himself in the utter darkness of oblivion from the with ering scorn and contempt of all mankind ?
"From the noble example of Aristides and of Socrates let American statesmen learn wisdom, and from the undying infamy of their cow ardly time-serving persecutors let political demagogues of today take warning"
So said Montgomery in 1886.
I still appreciate the "new" math classes I had in JrHS in the 60's (SMSG).
Also, I think that it would be better to have students read what, for example, Frederick Douglas WROTE, himself ... instead of reading what 5 mediocre authors SAID about what he wrote.
There is no person who can better convey facts than the individual who wrote them. No literary hack or textbook author can compare to the authentic source.
Our public school system recently was tossing aroud ideas on how to get the "community" more involved in the schools, and thus, bring in more money and volunteerism. One of the ideas proposed was to install a laundromat in the school. I am not kidding! Makes me view my children's $6000 private school tuition as an investment, not an expense.
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Good for you! More importantly, good for your students.
My children go to a very good charter school. It's consistently the top-rated school in the district. The charter school teaches phonics. The kids have to memorize things, such as spelling words and multiplication tables. They drill a lot of basic arithmetic. It's not a religious school, but the school's teachers and administrators are socially very conservative. Values and character instruction are integrated into every grade's curriculum. The school holds the kids to high standards of conduct. Hard work and achievement (rather than "self esteem") are among the values promoted.
Even there, I see the influence of some of these pernicious educational theories creeping in. My fourth grader has algebra and geometry topics sprinkled into his math. The math curriculum in every grade skips around far too much, in my opinion. My kindergartener sometimes has to do "word shape" puzzles in which he has to find the proper word to fit into each box based on its shape. I see my kids assigned more group projects than I would like. (I've hated group projects ever since I was the kid who had to carry the other kids in groups.)
Some of these curriculum issues are driven by forces outside the school's control. For example, the fourth grade FCAT (our state's assessment test) includes some algebra and geometry problems. So, our school has to teach some algebra and geometry by the fourth grade. Still, I wonder if the school will be able to resist the trendy liberal curricula and modern educational theories long enough for all of my children to get a good education there.
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One thing I heard a few months ago, from SWEDEN of all places, was that apparently, each family gets a voucher of XXXX and can choose any school, anywhere they wish with it, no forced attendance by district.
On one hand I like the idea.
On the other hand, it would probably end up infecting every school in the country with just enough bad kids to screw all of them up, due to parents thinking the problem with their kids is the schools, and not THEMSELVES and the way they've raised them.
Sweden values education more than we do, and I think too many parents in the US take no time at all teaching their kids, or even teaching them to WANT to learn, instead, throwing them at school and expecting their teachers to handle it all.
The problem with U.S. education is that it is PUBLIC!
"Public" by definition means that it is socialist-funded, godless, collectivist managed, and run by the voting mob. How on earth can that be successful?
When is Bruce going to give it up? He persists in his quixotic quest to reform the unreformable.
It is IMPOSSIBLE to fix schools that are fundamentally, to their very core, socialist-funded, collectivist-managed, godless, and owned by the voting mob.
Solution: Begin the process of getting government out of the education business from pre-K to graduate school!
I've taught 7th grade for 17 years, and every Friday we play a review game in class on that day. The game is usually based on whatever sport is in season (right now, it's baseball) and win-loss records are kept on the wall for all to see.
Rote memorization earns your team points. The more you can memorize, the better you help your team. They have to know what they've been taught. Everything's fair game, from stuff that I taught the previous day, to stuff that I taught in August.
Of course, they also learn a good lesson about the dynamics of working in a group, i.e., that working in a group pretty much sucks, because there's always knuckle-heads that everyone else has to drag along. I never attempt group work for any serious assignment, because I know that the work I would get would only reflect the abilities of the best student in the group. The others would just have that kid do their part for them.
I've seen kids who had no motivation to do anything decide that they weren't going to be the object of scorn and ridicule from their classmates any more and actually learn the information.
Not only that, when they pick new teams, the lazy kids get to experience the humiliation of being passed over for the hard workers.
By the end of the year, they realize the reason that they know all that they know is because they had to COMPETE, and that, if they let up, someone else will move ahead of them.
That's possibly the best lesson they can learn, anyway.
While they were still in high school, I took a number of them on a long weekend trip to a beachhouse to which we have access. Much to their disbelief, frustration and even some anger, with my not recently educated, 50 something, degrading memory, I beat the pants off them in any game we played that weekend that involved a knowledge of facts, be it Jeapordy or Trivial Pursuit or anything else.
Think about that: my memory is clearly not what it was, and I have not attended school for almost 40 years, but I still had a better grasp of history, politics, science, literature, sports, etc. than the very best of daughters' generation.
The lesson here is that our schools are failing not just the dropouts but also those who succeed.
Even Edmund Burke, in his "Speech on Conciliation . . . ." before the British Parliament in 1775, made the following observation about education in America and its effect on their ability to understand liberty, as well as their ability to stave off threats to their liberty, or, as he put it, "snuff the approach of tyrany in every tainted breeze.":
"me, Sir, to add another circumstance in our colonies, which contributes no mean part towards the growth and effect of this untractable spirit. I mean their education. In no country perhaps in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavour to obtain some smattering in that science. I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states, that all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law; and that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful chicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions. The smartness of debate will say, that this knowledge ought to teach them more clearly the rights of legislature, their obligations to obedience, and the penalties of rebellion. All this is mighty well. But my honourable and learned friend on the floor, who condescends to mark what I say for animadversion, will disdain that ground. He has heard, as well as I, that when great honours and great emoluments do not win over this knowledge to the service of the state, it is a formidable adversary to government. If the spirit be not tamed and broken by these happy methods, it is stubborn and litigious. Abeunt studia in mores. This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries,the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze."
Perhaps the kind of "educated electorate" America's Founders envisioned would understand that the consequence of deficits and debt is slavery, oppression, and tyranny. Perhaps such an electorate would recognize tyranny masked as a promise to "redistribute the wealth" of others who have earned it to cronies, union big wigs, and assorted other voting blocks in order to assure power for the person making such promises.
I've been teaching nine years. I'm using your ideas. Thank you.
When the Founders envisioned education they likely had their **own** educations in mind: homeschooling, private tutoring as needed, one room schools organized by parents, and dame schools in the homes of neighbors.
For the older children they likely expected apprenticeships in the early teens, and home based academies that prepared the brightest ( who could afford it) for entrance into college, again, as young teens.
Our Founding Fathers would be **appalled** to see our nation's children attending compulsory, socialist-modeled, collectivist managed, godless, prison-like, and voter mob owned government schooling. Children who attend these schools learn to be comfortable with:
voter mob compulsion.
collectivist control of their lives, deaths, and even their thoughts,
prison-like social institutions
His stand against such government-controlled schooling was based on his analysis of the movement in America to the Year 1886, and he documented much of his reasoning with facts from government reports.
Those of you participating in this thread may be interested in reading his lengthy treatise online and perhaps referring others to it.
Here are the details:
"Poison drops in the federal Senate: the school question from a parental and non-sectarian stand-point: an epitome of the educational views of Zach. Montgomery on account of which views a stubborn but fruitless effort was made in the United States Senate to prevent his confirmation as Assistant Attorney General (1886)"
Author: Montgomery, Zachariah
Subject: Education -- United States; Education and state
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Gibson Bros., printers
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Call number: AXU-5456
Digitizing sponsor: MSN
Book contributor: OISE - University of Toronto
Collection: toronto
His reasoning on the consequences for a people or a nation of such a system of education was sound. Sadly, those who opposed his position treated him badly and ignored his warnings--just as they ignore citizens today who do the same.
Scary. Even at a good school, the nonsense creeps in.
Word shape puzzles??? OMG.
Please show the original article to the principal.
Funny you mention the FCAT, I work for the organization that makes them. :)
I take issue with #3.
There is simply too much to know these days.
Knowing how to find the information you need and how to apply it is critical. Being able to educate yourself on the current task at hand, solve the problem and move on is how you make progress overall.
Thanks for posting this. Those six items are the most concise summary of today's education that I've ever seen. You have read through Thomas Sowell's books to get those six items in your head...but he hits them all. My kids never spent a day in public school...and none of these items are new to me, but to see it all right there is amazing. This is going home page.
(a day late Wintertime, but I know you'll like this posting)
Government schooling was the first whack at the foundations of the family.
Government schooling absolved the **father** of his responsibility before God to educate his children.
My bet is there are one or two questions involving algebra and geometry.
If the children had a sound mastery of 4th grade arithmetic their scores on these standardized tests would be outstanding, even if they did get the one or two algebra and geometry questions wrong.
Thats possibly the best lesson they can learn, anyway.
In every adult work and social environment in which I have been involved pleasant cooperation, reliability, dependability, and especially **competency** were the qualities that were valued. While there may have been competition with outside business competitors, competition within the group was NOT helpful in any manner.
While I agree with you that your methods are likely effective in helping children learn in the typical classroom environment, but, fundamentally, is it natural or normal for children to be segregated from the larger society, in prison-like buildings, and confined for large parts of the day to socialization with children all of the same age?
Would an adult willingly place himself in a situation where he would be "humiliated" and subjected to "scorn"? If an adult would find it very difficult to cope with this type of social abuse, why on earth would we think it is good for children? Perhaps it is the environment itself that is responsible for the lack of motivation.
Much of the "socialization" learned in our prison-like government government schools is prison-gang survival and coping strategies. These dysfunctional habits must be **unlearned** and replaced with healthy interpersonal skills if success is to be achieved in the workplace, family, and larger society. Thankfully, humans are highly adaptable. Most make the transition. Sadly, some do not.
If our Founding Fathers were to walk through a typical government school they would be horrified at how we treat children. When they spoke of education they likely had their own educations in mind. That would include:
**homeschool with tutoring as needed from relatives, friends, and some paid tutors.
** very small dame schools in the homes of neighbors
** very small one room schools organized by parents that included children of all ages
** Apprenticeships for older children, and home-based academies to prepare the brightest ( who could afford it) for entrance into college as **young** teens.
Those six items are the most concise summary of todays education that Ive ever seen.
Ah! But....The problem is that people wrongly believe that if they could just fix those 6 problems that government schools would be fixed.
Government schools can't be fixed because ( by definition) government schools **are**, to their core, socialist-funded, collectivist-managed, voter mob-owned, compulsory, prison-like, and godless.
"Government schools cant be fixed because ( by definition) government schools **are**, to their core, socialist-funded, collectivist-managed, voter mob-owned, compulsory, prison-like, and godless."
Good point - I haven't looked at it that way. Of course the first step is getting parents up to speed...so these 6 items at least let them know what to look out for. I was having a talk with a co-worker just yesterday, and she was bringing up some of these.
"In every adult work and social environment in which I have been involved pleasant cooperation, reliability, dependability, and especially **competency** were the qualities that were valued. While there may have been competition with outside business competitors, competition within the group was NOT helpful in any manner."
And everyone is promoted at the same time, and everyone makes the same salary, right? If you don't think people compete within a company for salaries, positions, etc, you're nuts.
"Would an adult willingly place himself in a situation where he would be humiliated and subjected to scorn? If an adult would find it very difficult to cope with this type of social abuse, why on earth would we think it is good for children? Perhaps it is the environment itself that is responsible for the lack of motivation."
Nobody's making them be lazy or forcing them not to study. It's called a "consequence". If people come to recognize, FROM YOUR ACTIONS, that you choose not to work, then so be it. It's going to be that way for the rest of your life! The good part about it is, the kids completely forget about socioeconomic class, cliques, etc., and select ONLY based on the fact that someone might be a hard worker. In other words, they see the VALUE in a person where they otherwise might not. Conversely, sometimes best friends are passed over if they've shown lazy tendencies. But, it's all up to the kid to work hard and create that value in himself, as it will be for the rest of their lives! That's the way it SHOULD be! And as for blaming the environment, that's just one of a long list of things that people use so they don't have to hold the kids responsible. "It's not the kid's fault, its the environment". If that were true, none of them would succeed.
Those who get promoted are those with the most competency ( they **know** their job), reliable, dependable, pleasant, and can generate the most productive cooperation among those working under them.
The typical prison-like government school is one of the worst places to learn the interpersonal skills needed to advance in business. The is one place that is definitely worse: real prison!
Load of balderdash.
Since when isn't competition a part of the adult work world? Maybe it isn't where you work, but for those of us who have no job security, you bet we have to work our tail off just to see through to another paycheck.
I am a cub scout leader. My little scouts LOVE to learn.
However.....Every one of them **HATES** school! It must be a visceral feeling for them. It shows on their faces when the very word, "school", is mentioned.
we have to work our tail off just to see through to another paycheck
Anything less would be stealing from your employer. That's one of the Ten Commandments that are not taught in our government schools.
Apparently not in your competition-free world.
The reality is that unless people know they will be fired and replaced, they will slack. Guaranteed.
An Enlightened, Committed People Who Understand The Principles Of Our Constitution
- The Most Effective Means Of Preserving Liberty
"Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant - they have been cheated; asleep - they have been surprised; divided - the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson? ...the people ought to be enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after establishing a government they should watch over it.... It is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently free."- James Madison
America's Constitution is the means by which knowledgeable and free people, capable of self-government, can bind and control their elected representatives in government. In order to remain free, the Founders said, the people themselves must clearly understand the ideas and principles upon which their Constitutional government is based. Through such understanding, they will be able to prevent those in power from eroding their Constitutional protections.
The Founders established schools and seminaries for the distinct purpose of instilling in youth the lessons of history and the ideas of liberty. And, in their day, they were successful. Tocqueville, eminent French jurist, traveled America and in his 1830's work, DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA, wrote:
".every citizen ... is taught . the doctrines and the evidences of his religion, the history of his country, and the leading features of its Constitution ... it is extremely rare to find a man imperfectly acquainted with all these things, and a person wholly ignorant of them is a sort of phenomenon."
On the frontier, he noted that "...no sort of comparison can be drawn between the pioneer and the dwelling that shelters him.... He wears the dress and speaks the language of the cities; he is acquainted with the past, curious about the future, and ready for argument about the present.... I do not think that so much intellectual activity exists in the most enlightened and populous districts of France' " He continued, "It cannot be doubted that in the United States the instruction of the people powerfully contributes to the support of the democratic republic; and such must always be the case...where the instruction which enlightens the understanding is not separated from the moral education.."
Possessing a clear understanding of the failure of previous civilizations to achieve and sustain freedom for individuals, our forefathers discovered some timeless truths about human nature, the struggle for individual liberty, the human tendency toward abuse of power, and the means for curbing that tendency through Constitutional self-government. Jefferson's Bill For The More General Diffusion Of Knowledge For Virginia declared:
"...experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government), those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate...the minds of the people...to give them knowledge of those facts, which history exhibiteth. History, by apprizing them of the past, will enable them to judge of the future...it will qualify them judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.."
Education was not perceived by the Founders to be a mere process for teaching basic skills. It was much, much more. Education included the very process by which the people of America would understand and be able to preserve their liberty and secure their Creator-endowed rights. Understanding the nature and origin of their rights and the means of preserving them, the people would be capable of self government, for they would recognize any threats to liberty and "nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud." (Adams) (Read about "Our Ageless Constitution" at this site).
A review of textbooks used in the schools until the mid-20th Century reveals a very different curriculum than has existed for many decades now.
It seems the so-called "public schools" stopped performing the role described by the Founders about the time the "progressives" took control of the mechanisms of what now passes for "education" in America. Perhaps the near explosion of home schools and private schools over the past couple of decades has contributed to recent renewed interest in the ideas of liberty and America's founding principles. Is it too little, too late?
Yes, that is the **real** world and the law of natural consequences. People are fired for lack of competency, inability to produce, or inability to work cooperatively with others to produce a desired result.
So?....How often are children "fired" from government school for lack of competency, or inability to get along with others? Hm? No, they are not "fired". Instead they are "humiliated" and the other children are taught to "scorn" them.
Which is more humane?
1) Is it kinder and more considerate to humiliate and scorn children who are government captives in a government prison-like facility ( children whose only crime was to be born),...
... or?...
2) Do as private schools do? Inform them that they are not a good fit for the private school and the other children, and ask them to leave?
Which is more "real world" and better preparation for the adult world of work and social relationships?
I teach in private school. I don't humiliate, I don't scorn. All I do is ask the same from all the students, to reach the standard that I've set.
If they don't reach it, it means I have to work harder with them and they have to work harder too.
The kids don't want to look bad in front of their peers, and the kids know that I'm not going to ask of them what I don't ask of anybody else in the class. I don't pick on people, I don't make examples of them.
But they know that I will call on them, and they will be expected to know the answer, and I will work with them until they are confident.
Unlike in the real world, you get second chances, as many as it takes until you get it. They also realize that I'm only with them for one year, and that next year, if they don't work, the consequences will be dire.
Most of them respond. Two haven't really for the entire year. But every class I keep pushing them along and trying to get them involved in the class.
I don't and haven't had to use the stick. Yet. So far the carrot has been effective enough to motivate most of the students. Yes, they compete with each other and I encourage them to do so.
Government education probably wasn't too bad initially due to the basic values brought to the socialist schooling system by the teachers and principals. These values are reflected in the early textbooks.
We will see the same thing with socialized health care.
The professionalism of the doctors and nurses will ( at first) insure that patients get reasonably decent care. In one or two generations, though, as the those who were trained in the private system retire, socialized medicine will exhibit all the pathology seen in our socialist-funded, compulsory, and voter mob controlled government schools.
In one or two generations citizens will be saying:
** We need local control.
** We need to get rid of the Federal Department of National Health.
** We need to elect better people to the health boards.
** We need to get back to basics.
** If only the doctors and nurses weren't unionized.
** If only parents took better care of their kids. It's the parents' fault.
** If only citizens took more responsibility for themselves. It's the citizen's own fault.
** If only there was less waste.
** We need more doctors and nurses and fewer administrators.
** If only the medical and nursing schools had fewer Marxists.
Americans, in one or two generations, will be absolutely incapable of believing that a private system of health care can exist. They will think that if they could just tweak the socialist health care system in one or two ways that somehow it would be fixed. Very few will understand that the underlying pathology within the system is SOCIALISM!
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Skip to comments.History will remember Bush well
Posted on 01/20/2009 9:26:58 AM PST by jbwbubba
In August 1951, with a little more than a year left to Harry S. Truman's presidency, historian Henry Steele Commager published an essay in Look magazine with this prediction: "By all normal standards, [Truman's] Administration has been one of almost . . . unparalleled success . . . the verdict of history will not be the same as the verdict of contemporary critics."
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History will remember President Bush well.
And btw, it will comment on just how screwed up the mainstream media was during the past eight years.
That will be one of the 'big things' history discusses and writes papers about for the next couple of centuries.
That won't be pretty, but it will be accurate, unlike say CBS or NBC news.
Depends on who writes the history.
Read Perle's account of the Bush years and his role in them from Sunday morning. He makes it clear that Bush tolerated a level of insubordination that was inexcusable in any chief administrator much less the POTUS. There should have been blood in the halls of the State Dept., the CIA, and even the Pentagon if only half of what Perle had to say was true. Bush was plainly just too good of a man to do what the job required. Too bad because he was our last chance
I hope and pray you are correct. Despite the missteps, I have loved President Bush and his absolute respect for the job and its trappings. His emotion and honesty have always been apparent toward all members of our military. He is a decent, honorable man who "re-elevated" the status of the office after the despicable previous eight years.
I have to think that today's media will eventually come to be seen in the same negative light as the "yellow journalists" that brought us the Spanish American war.
More than anything else, I think the long-term view of Bush's presidency will be shaped by its response to Islamism.
Mr. Bush faced the same sort of decisions that Neville Chamberlain did; and his decision could not have been more different from that of Mr. Chamberlain.
We need to be very clear about the fact that the Islamists are not going way anytime soon. They will continue in their violent ways, and they will probably even gain a few victories.
But in responding aggressively to Islamic terrorism, Bush set the tone for how the rest of the world will respond to terror; and he showed that it can be defeated. Unlike Nazi Germany, which was allowed to spread unchecked, the consequences of Mr. Bush's strategy has caused Islamist to become unwelcome even on their home ground. They don't have any unhindered breeding grounds.
Obama's naivete and arrogance can (and probably will) screw some things up pretty badly; but his mistakes will be judged against what Bush has done -- and will be corrected as best as possible by reverting to Bush's approach. Obama's successes (if any) will be judged in relation to how they diverged from or agreed with what Bush has put in place.
That's as good a working definition of "success" as one is likely to find in the real world.
Excellent points, thanks for sharing them with me.
>>Depends on who writes the history.<<
Thanks to the internet, that concept does not have the teeth it once had.
Most people though the Civil was was all about slavery. Most people now know better, thanks in great part to the ease with which people can get out the truth via the internet.
Without the internet, Kerry would most assuredly have gone down in history as a Vietnam war hero.
The times they are a changin'.
Amazing << Hear this. Feel this, and tell me that this isn't music.
And dont sleep on these two, either.
Bush's biggest blunder was naively believing he could get Democrats to work with him honestly and constructively. By not eventually recognizing this impossibility, using his majority and bully pulpit to push through what was right while ignoring the howling from the left and letting the American people decide the value of it, he set the stage for today.
And it was made worse by his playing the "nice guy," not smacking down the constant barrage of lies pushed by the left and parroted by the MSM about his administration. He allowed propaganda to become unchallenged fact. He should be familiar with the principle that silence equals assent.
And Jimmua the second will still be Jimmua the second.
I think not. The coming Hispanic majority in the country will certainly be a monument to his catastrophic presidency. Perhaps when their history of the 'reconquista' is written they will think of him as sort of their founding father. Perhaps their history will look kindly upon him.
Americans should have a very different view of him.
He has changed the demographic make up of this country forever. We now have a huge and growing population of people from the third world that are going out re-produce Americans and will be a huge voting block for the democratic party. As these people learn more and more that they can tax the rich (meaning the indigenous people who have wealth) they will do so. The government will be come even larger than it is now (hard to imagine). Bush ignored his constitutional duties to protect our border. In fact he encouraged the invasion (is that kind what traitors do?) He then sought to legalize millions of people who flooded into the country under his watch. That would have finished off the GOP. Well, actually that might be a good thing. Perhaps the GOP needs to die so we can have a conservative party again.
The debt our grandchildren will have from Jorge will also be an achievement that it will be hard to forget.
The nationalization of industry that Bush has pushed for is something that leftists in Latin American only dream of. Frankly, aside for Roberts and Alito (remember that he wanted Harriet Myers) there is very little that Bush did that was either conservative or successful. He could justly be called the most left-wing president in American history. He is expanded government power unlike anyone since his fellow catastrophic Texan Johnson.
I regret my votes for him more than most things. He and his fellow neoconservatives have destroyed what Goldwater, Nixon and Reagan built. May he go back to Texas and never be heard from again.
Once you realize there isn't a living human being in this nation that can trace their family history to beginning 'here' you stop freaking yourself out about 'immigration' (Legal immigration).
Even so called 'native Americans' came over the Bering Sea 'land bridge'.
Second thought rereading your post to me. Bush wasn't a Conservative. Nor was his father, and we didn't have a viable Conservative this time around, just a guy from Arizona that played one in a few commercials from August til November....(chuckle)
But to say George W Bush was 'the most left-wing President in history' is simply ridiculous, given the competition for that title among the 42 President's the proceeded him.
On to you regretting your vote for him. Ah, sorry, Algore as POTUS on and immediately after 9/11? No thanks.
John 'Marriage is a Career path' Kerry? Again, No thanks.
You play the hand you are dealt. As we know, even a weak hand (Bush 43) can, and will 'win out'.
And as McLame just demonstrated, a bad hand is just that, a bad hand, and thats why you throw your cards back in and wait for the next deal.
Before you go about chuckling you might want to take a look at what America was before 1965. I am not 'freaked out'. I am merely stating facts. Bush has encouraged waves of people from the Third World into this country. You also throw the usual caveat about 'legal immigration'. It is pretty obvious from my post that I was talking about illegal Immigration.
Keep chuckling, you have President Barak Hussein Obama because of Bush.
Bush wasnt a Conservative. Nor was his father, and we didnt have a viable Conservative this time around, just a guy from Arizona that played one in a few commercials from August til November....(chuckle)
You seem to be ignorant of what it is to be a conservative and what it is to be a liberal. I'm not interested in educating you but you might want to ponder what Ronald Reagan said about government not being the solution to problems, that Government is the problem.
But to say George W Bush was the most left-wing President in history is simply ridiculous, given the competition for that title among the 42 Presidents the proceeded him.
Really? Did Clinton nationalize significant portions of the economy? Did he take tax dollars to 'bailout' wealthy Wall Street Banks? Again, do you know what conservatism is?
On to you regretting your vote for him. Ah, sorry, Algore as POTUS on and immediately after 9/11? No thanks.
I am certainly no fan of Algore. I think he would not have been a good president. He might even have been as bad as Bush. None of us know how he would have acted after 9-11. I doubt he would have had much of a choice but to hit Afghanistan. I doubt he would have gone to Iraq though.
I know the entire country traces its roots to another nations, other continents. I understand that was the 'key' to the last century being 'America's Time'.
I don't fear immigration. Sorry. I'm a product of it.
As for daring to lecture me about what it is to be a Conservative....well,...thats very funny.
Have a nice day.
....So we should let 20 million third worlders in and get them on the public dole.
Sounds very Bushy....but not conservative.
I dont fear immigration. Sorry. Im a product of it.
I don't 'fear' immigration either. You are projecting there. I believe that the United States has a national identity that should be preserved. We are not a multi-cultural playground that has no borders, no common language or common traditions. Liberals believe in multi-culturalism. Oh, and so does Bush.
As for daring to lecture me about what it is to be a Conservative....well,...thats very funny.
You are supporting a President who advocates the nationalization of the economny, spending so much money that our grandchildren will be in debted, and open borders. None of that is conservative. You might want to think about that...chuckle....
Have a great day.
The building of the Wall was under GW, the cranked-up ICE raids and E-Verify were implemented and the largest amount of illegal immigrant convictions and deportations were thanks to Bush.
Just because you're ignorant of the facts doesn't mean the truth isn't out there.
I know the entire country traces its roots to another nations, other continents. I understand that was the key to the last century being Americas Time.
....So we should let 20 million third worlders in and get them on the public dole.
If you are going to make things up, then attribute them to me, you will end up looking ridiculous by the time this exchange is over between us. Don't say you were not warned.
Sounds very Bushy....but not conservative.
Bush wasn't a Conservative. Get your hearing checked.
I dont fear immigration. Sorry. Im a product of it.
I don't 'fear' immigration either. You are projecting there. I believe that the United States has a national identity that should be preserved. We are not a multi-cultural playground that has no borders, no common language or common traditions. Liberals believe in multi-culturalism. Oh, and so does Bush.
Again, Bush isn't a Conservative. That said, we are all from 'other places' including YOU.
As for daring to lecture me about what it is to be a Conservative....well,...thats very funny.
You are supporting a President who advocates the nationalization of the economny, spending so much money that our grandchildren will be in debted, and open borders. None of that is conservative. You might want to think about that...chuckle....
Again, making things up then attributing them to me in a public forum will end up with you looking ridiculous. This is the second example in this post.
Have a great day.
I usually do.
You must have slept through his work with Teddy Kennedy in persuit of legalizing 20 million illegals.
Here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Immigration_Reform_Act_of_2007
All true, Deb.
There are still things left undone as it relates to border security, and the fact is W had to be dragged kicking and screaming to do what you site.
The poster is at the point where he/she is making things up, and attributing them to other posters as if they are 'real'.
That demonstrates he/she knows the debate is already lost.
Relative to your assertion (above), I got to thinking...
I cast my first vote for President in 1964. From that point forward, there were eight Presidents (Obama makes nine). Reagan was clearly the best of the lot.
Who would be #2...???
Hmmmm. Ya know...I don't have an answer. Never really thought about it...but now that I have...I can't come up with one.
There was Reagan...and everybody else.
Ewwww ....says the guy who has attempted to paint me as 'scared' of immigration.
Bush wasnt a Conservative. Get your hearing checked.
Good. We agree.
Again, Bush isnt a Conservative. That said, we are all from other places including YOU.
I have no problem with immigration. I have problems with illegal immigration. I have stated that before. If you would like I will state it again. I am against illegal immigration. There. Now, Bush has been catastrophic on illegal immigration. Had he gotten his way on his work with Teddy Kennedy he would have been even worse.
Have a great day.
You too. I wish you nothing but the best.
I plan to watch the news later and see the coverage of the inaguration of Barak Hussein Obama. I will ponder how when Bush came to Washington the GOP was the majority party and how he leaves it ruins. Obama would not have been possible if not for Bush.
Reagan actually accomplished amnesty for 20 million illegals and he is our hero. Bush's mistake was thinking that illegals and resident Latinos could become supporters of the Republican party like they did in Texas. That may be altruistic, but it's not worth all the vomitous screaming and blind hatred from conservatives.
Bush had a lot of help from a disfunctional GOP majority in both the House and the Senate.
2006 tom DeLay 'There's nothing left to cut' in a budget featuring 31,000 plus earmarks
2000 - 2007 John McCain, daily attacking Republicans and the President who was the leader of his party, for the benefit of Chrissy Matthews on MSNBC's 'Softball'.
Indeed it did not. Bush failed on that. Thank God. So did McCain and the other lefties in the GOP. You should think about the fact that Bush the 'conservative' worked so well with Teddy Kennedy.
Reagan actually accomplished amnesty for 20 million illegals and he is our hero.
He did nothing of the sort. He did legalize about 2 or 3 million illegals. You do know that 20 million is a lot higher than 2 million, right?
Bush's mistake was thinking that illegals and resident Latinos could become supporters of the Republican party like they did in Texas. That may be altruistic, but it's not worth all the vomitous screaming and blind hatred from conservatives.
Altruism had nothing to do with it.
I fault him for not having a Carville, Begala or Lanny Davis out there beating up the opposition everyday, but the Democrats who bring us the news would have done to them what they did to Bush, Rove, Cheney and every other Republican.
He didn't get serious about border security until the Amnesty bill was defeated in a humiliating fashion. Thats just the plain truth, he dragged his feet on it for several YEARS after 9/11, in a false belief that by legislative efforts the GOP could entice hispanics into the party.
As we have seen it was an absymal failure. What I can't get over is how they came to that strategy in the first place, it never had a chance of working.
Indeed. The GOP forgot why they were the majority and decided to follow Bush down the neoconservative road. Had they stuck with what got them there they would still be the majority.
2006 tom DeLay Theres nothing left to cut in a budget featuring 31,000 plus earmarks
2000 - 2007 John McCain, daily attacking Republicans and the President who was the leader of his party, for the benefit of Chrissy Matthews on MSNBCs Softball.
Yes. Which is why for the first time in my life I voted Libertarian and not Republican. I would have voted Constitutional Party but they were not on the ticket in California. McCain deserved to lose. It is sad that he was even given the nomination and was able to harm Palins chances in the future. She was the only thing good about the GOP ticket. Hopefully, she will lead the party out of the abyss.
I agree with everything you posted except 'harmed Palin'.
She's benefitted greatly from the contrast between McCain's moderate BS hiding behind 'I'm a Conservative' campaign commercials, which were simply ridiculous.
Think about it. Outside of Obama, who's gotten the most ink in politics since the election was over?
Sarah Palin. And yep, its been vicious attacks...but I recall an old saying. The worst thing in the world is being 'talked about'. The second worst thing in the world is 'not being talked about'.
Daily, people are talking about Sarah Palin. We see it EVERYWHERE, not just here at FR.
Those that want to believe she won't be a big factor in 2012 are making a big mistake.
Watch and see. She hit a chord with the American people that McCain and his band of idiot campaign managers completely and totally misused.
Go stew in you own putrid juices and bathe in your lies. Your BS had become tiresome.
Good point. I hope you are correct. She had 'it'. She connected to people and represented the American people much more than the other three. She was magnificent. I almost held my nose and voted for McCain because of her. Then McCain let her be attacked viciously and did close to nothing.
She hit a chord with the American people that McCain and his band of idiot campaign managers completely and totally misused.
I agree and I hope you are correct. It shows the character of the people around McCain that they went about leaking negative things about her after the election.
Geez, you have to give him some credit for abandoning it when he saw the wave of support against it.
Quit projecting. I am shocked that even after all that has happened that you could be so blind in your defense of Bush.
Give the man no credit.
He deserves no credit. He deserves scorn and derision. He has brought the conservative movement to its knees which paved the way for Barak Hussien Obama. He has thus harmed his country. If you want to defend the man who laid the ground for Socialism in this country you are welcome to.
Admit nothing...oh, wait...you had to admit St. Ronald gave millions of illegals amnesty!!
Admit nothing? I am pretty open about what I think and believe. Legalizing 2 million people is quite different than legalizing 20 million. Do you understand that? I think Reagans Amnesty was a mistake but it was not the catastrophe that Bushs would have been.
Go stew in you own putrid juices and bathe in your lies. Your BS had become tiresome.
BTW - Can you name what Bush did besides his Supreme Court Nominees that was 'conservative'? What did he do differently than Clinton would have done? What makes him worth your robust defense of him? What makes him worthy of Reagan?
McCain's people put her with Couric and Gibson.
Palin on her own hit Rush and Sean and Beck, and did very very well.
In short, her political instincts are miles beyond McCain's, or the idiots McCain hired.
The amnesty bill under Reagan resulted in about 2.7 million people going through the process and adjusting their status.
I think in the end, it was more the GOP members of Congress that did that, they never had President Bush's back.
Yes. McCain makes me wish that I was a conspiracy theorist. He seemed to throw the election. Sadly, I have to just swallow the fact that he was a bad candidate and his staff were stupid.
'He seemed to throw the election.'
I noted that at GOPACHY.
Last February.
I disagree. The problem was that they drank the kool-aid of 'compassionate conservatism' which translates to 'big government conservatism' which is neo-conservatism and is the kin of liberalism.
The House GOP showed some life by originally resisting the theft of middleclass wealth to give to Bankers. In the end they too showed that they were not conservatives but big-government liberals.
I think there might be something to it. He just didn't seem too upset about losing.
I think the GOP would be smart to vote en mass against all of Obamas agenda and then nominate a Palin/Sanford ticket.
Depends on what the new President actually proposes in writing, as compared to what he was proposing while running for the job.
I think he's more of a pragmatist than anyone suspects. We'll see.
I hope so. Maybe the knot in my stomach will go away.
Anyway, great talking to you. Have a wonderful day. I am off for Mexican food. ;)
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You're right. I lived in Texas during that time and it did influence his thinking.
His being able to work with Dems in TX made him think he could do so on the national level.
Needless to say, he was mistaken.
He's out of the White House now and I wish him and all of us the best. I think we're gonna need it now.
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And dont sleep on these two, either.
"Again, do you know what conservatism is.."
What do you consider the differences between conservatism and 'neoconservatism' in regards to foreign policy? Also, since you claim that you would have voted for the Constitutional Party, does this mean you supported Chuck Baldwin?
It really makes me sad that he gets no credit for his humanity and optimism in dealing with the other side. It was a misconception in Washington, but all he gets is contempt for trying. Thanks for your post.
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Tempted to post my invite link just to send homeboy into a seizure, jeebus. :cheeky4:
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