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		<title>By: John Stone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 01:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know, maybe that is the solution. A lot of the educational process is bogus anyway, so start calling high school college. A lot of these kids are not going anywhere anyway and it would save the expense of years of school to just award the degree. 
 
I suspect we would be better off to go back to the not so good &#039;good old days&#039;. The reality is that there is a certain amount of stuff you have to learn to function as an adult, and just sort of pound it in to them by whatever means necessary. You know, the basic stuff: reading, writing and math. Once that is down then you think about getting creative with enrichment or whatever. But not until.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know, maybe that is the solution. A lot of the educational process is bogus anyway, so start calling high school college. A lot of these kids are not going anywhere anyway and it would save the expense of years of school to just award the degree. </p>
<p>I suspect we would be better off to go back to the not so good &#039;good old days&#039;. The reality is that there is a certain amount of stuff you have to learn to function as an adult, and just sort of pound it in to them by whatever means necessary. You know, the basic stuff: reading, writing and math. Once that is down then you think about getting creative with enrichment or whatever. But not until.  </p>
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		<title>By: Infovoyeur</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 01:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a former state university teacher (&quot;professor&quot;) who loved Teaching...  Problems are (1) TNM Terminal Non-Motivation among the young today (ALL actual motivation comes from within the learner), (2) Yes the forces which this article and comments usefully delineate, but also, I still postulate, (3) the fact tuat truer Thinking as such ( = ability to CCCC, confront crucial matters with conceptual competence--in the real world after school) is simply not taught, largely.  Oh, many well-intentioned instructors (not the Research-focused at the Big Schools) honestly think they are teaching thinking (beyond &quot;critical thinking&quot; which is technical statement-evaluation).  But have they ever tested for autonomous student transfer to confront complex issues via higher-order thinking? Rarely.  The model is still more KBD what to Know (information-retention, etc.)  and perhaps Believe and Do, than TTT, how to think things through.  But it&#039;s the invisible elephant in the room.  On the &quot;map of education,&quot; some people know that higher-order thinking is sort of T.I., Terra Incognita, it&#039;s there but don&#039;t know much about it.  (They may model, describe, urge, thinking but give no models, frames, ploys.)  But others see on the map, where Thinking is, see only the Deep Blue Sea...  They honestly think they&#039;re teaching, students are learning, &quot;thinking&quot;--but what are employers saying about inability to confront complex information, make sense of it, do cause-effect analysis, recognize key issues, etc.? 
But SORRY for this rant because if the issue is really as sneakily evasively subliminal, occult, tacit as I am claiming, one email post cannot reveal it to those who were in the system and tried toward it! Anyhow I tried, and only want to add another dimension to the vital article and comments above.....]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From a former state university teacher (&#8220;professor&#8221;) who loved Teaching&#8230;  Problems are (1) TNM Terminal Non-Motivation among the young today (ALL actual motivation comes from within the learner), (2) Yes the forces which this article and comments usefully delineate, but also, I still postulate, (3) the fact tuat truer Thinking as such ( = ability to CCCC, confront crucial matters with conceptual competence&#8211;in the real world after school) is simply not taught, largely.  Oh, many well-intentioned instructors (not the Research-focused at the Big Schools) honestly think they are teaching thinking (beyond &#8220;critical thinking&#8221; which is technical statement-evaluation).  But have they ever tested for autonomous student transfer to confront complex issues via higher-order thinking? Rarely.  The model is still more KBD what to Know (information-retention, etc.)  and perhaps Believe and Do, than TTT, how to think things through.  But it&#8217;s the invisible elephant in the room.  On the &#8220;map of education,&#8221; some people know that higher-order thinking is sort of T.I., Terra Incognita, it&#8217;s there but don&#8217;t know much about it.  (They may model, describe, urge, thinking but give no models, frames, ploys.)  But others see on the map, where Thinking is, see only the Deep Blue Sea&#8230;  They honestly think they&#8217;re teaching, students are learning, &#8220;thinking&#8221;&#8211;but what are employers saying about inability to confront complex information, make sense of it, do cause-effect analysis, recognize key issues, etc.?<br />
But SORRY for this rant because if the issue is really as sneakily evasively subliminal, occult, tacit as I am claiming, one email post cannot reveal it to those who were in the system and tried toward it! Anyhow I tried, and only want to add another dimension to the vital article and comments above&#8230;..</p>
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		<title>By: Mary Sue</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[they were using a form of whole language in the 80s, too, in Canada. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>they were using a form of whole language in the 80s, too, in Canada. </p>
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		<title>By: tagalog</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m waiting for day when Fuddrucker&#039;s new name becomes publicly acceptable, and you can get your law degree from Costco. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#039;m waiting for day when Fuddrucker&#039;s new name becomes publicly acceptable, and you can get your law degree from Costco. </p>
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		<title>By: Jeff Ludwig</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Ludwig]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prof. Williams is right on target. I&#039;ve been teaching for decades in both high schools and colleges. I have taught the s0-called below average (&quot;at risk&quot;) students and the gifted.  They are brirnging fewer and fewer skills to the table. NYC recently stated the community college part of the City University system -- six schools in all -- has 80% of the entering students in need of math or reading remediation.  I am presently teaching at a college where high school students are enrolled and are receiving college credits while they are in high school. Incredibly they began taking the college courses in the summer after eighth grade. Now I have them while they are in 12th grade, supposedly finishing up high school and a two year &quot;community college&quot; program for an associate&#039;s degree. It&#039;s all bogus. More than 50% cannot write a paragraph.   ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Prof. Williams is right on target. I&#039;ve been teaching for decades in both high schools and colleges. I have taught the s0-called below average (&quot;at risk&quot;) students and the gifted.  They are brirnging fewer and fewer skills to the table. NYC recently stated the community college part of the City University system &#8212; six schools in all &#8212; has 80% of the entering students in need of math or reading remediation.  I am presently teaching at a college where high school students are enrolled and are receiving college credits while they are in high school. Incredibly they began taking the college courses in the summer after eighth grade. Now I have them while they are in 12th grade, supposedly finishing up high school and a two year &quot;community college&quot; program for an associate&#039;s degree. It&#039;s all bogus. More than 50% cannot write a paragraph.   </p>
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		<title>By: Jeff Ludwig</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excellent article Robin. Thank you very much. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excellent article Robin. Thank you very much. </p>
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		<title>By: Robin</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ohio State is ground zero for Whole Language. It is where the Fountas &amp; Pinnell Guided Reading and Marie Clay&#039;s Reading Recovery teacher training occur for big bucks. It also used to run some of the online change the student affective curricula. And it is where john a powell teaches. He has written about using education to eliminate any belief that there is a unitary self. 
 
These guys are serious about squelching individualism. Which is why they refuse to teach reading properly. They understand it bolsters the abstract mind. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ohio State is ground zero for Whole Language. It is where the Fountas &amp; Pinnell Guided Reading and Marie Clay&#039;s Reading Recovery teacher training occur for big bucks. It also used to run some of the online change the student affective curricula. And it is where john a powell teaches. He has written about using education to eliminate any belief that there is a unitary self. </p>
<p>These guys are serious about squelching individualism. Which is why they refuse to teach reading properly. They understand it bolsters the abstract mind. </p>
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		<title>By: Lady_Dr</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Ohio State University the &quot;College of Education&quot; is called the intellectual sewer.  If you cannot get into any other college on campus you can always get into it.  Not all teachers are stupid, but all the stupid people go into education because they cannot get into any other college.   
 
Incidently I once applied for a professional position (I have a real doctorate, not one in education) and discovered that the county where they job was paid beginning teachers with one degree and no experience $1,000 more per month plus they only worked 9 months for 12 months pay.  I would be a fool to take a job where I was paid and therefore valued less than some bimbo with a BA and no experience. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At Ohio State University the &quot;College of Education&quot; is called the intellectual sewer.  If you cannot get into any other college on campus you can always get into it.  Not all teachers are stupid, but all the stupid people go into education because they cannot get into any other college.   </p>
<p>Incidently I once applied for a professional position (I have a real doctorate, not one in education) and discovered that the county where they job was paid beginning teachers with one degree and no experience $1,000 more per month plus they only worked 9 months for 12 months pay.  I would be a fool to take a job where I was paid and therefore valued less than some bimbo with a BA and no experience. </p>
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		<title>By: Lady_Dr</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am SO in agreement with your last statement. For those who are not aware if it - the US Dept. of Education was created during Carter&#039;s administration as payback to the teacher&#039;&#039;s unions who got him elected.  Prior to that it was part of the Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare.  BUT all of this is unconstitutional.   
 
Let&#039;s get rid of the Dept. of Education, and the schools of education.  Some years ago, I think it was Oregon State eliminated their College of Education in favor of a one year certificate program in teaching to be taken AFTER obtaining another degree. Don&#039;t know how it worked out. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am SO in agreement with your last statement. For those who are not aware if it &#8211; the US Dept. of Education was created during Carter&#039;s administration as payback to the teacher&#039;&#039;s unions who got him elected.  Prior to that it was part of the Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare.  BUT all of this is unconstitutional.   </p>
<p>Let&#039;s get rid of the Dept. of Education, and the schools of education.  Some years ago, I think it was Oregon State eliminated their College of Education in favor of a one year certificate program in teaching to be taken AFTER obtaining another degree. Don&#039;t know how it worked out. </p>
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		<title>By: Alex Kovnat</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Kovnat]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[@Ordinary Man: We should eliminate both the Department of Education and the Department of Energy.  
 
Getting back to topic, which on this thread is education, another complaint I (and many others) have is, the fad of subjecting young people to brutal punishments for even inadvertently offending some zero-tolerance rule. For example, we have seen children so young you can express their age with the fingers of one hand or both hands at most, being scolded or suspended for pointing their fingers and saying bang-bang, or chewing a cracker or a piece of pizza into the shape of a gun. Are we teaching children respect for the power of guns to hurt and kill by doing that? More likely, we are teaching children fear of adult authority figures rather than guns per se. We are teaching them that might makes right.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Ordinary Man: We should eliminate both the Department of Education and the Department of Energy.  </p>
<p>Getting back to topic, which on this thread is education, another complaint I (and many others) have is, the fad of subjecting young people to brutal punishments for even inadvertently offending some zero-tolerance rule. For example, we have seen children so young you can express their age with the fingers of one hand or both hands at most, being scolded or suspended for pointing their fingers and saying bang-bang, or chewing a cracker or a piece of pizza into the shape of a gun. Are we teaching children respect for the power of guns to hurt and kill by doing that? More likely, we are teaching children fear of adult authority figures rather than guns per se. We are teaching them that might makes right.  </p>
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		<title>By: RAH</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I majored in Government at U-Mass, but took a minor in education so I could teach if I couldn&#8217;t get elected to public office. The School of Education at U-Mass was so bad, many high schools would not take student teachers from it. It was truly an amazing experience. Thankfully, I was elected to the Massachusetts senate the year I graduated (1972), so only substituted a couple of days and never looked back. I will link to this from my Old Jarhead blog.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://(www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;(www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com)&lt;/a&gt; 
 
Robert A. Hall 
USMC 1964-68 
USMCR, 1977-83 
Massachusetts Senate, 1973-83 
Author: The Coming Collapse of the American Republic 
All royalties go to help wounded veterans 
For a free PDF of my 80-page book, write tartanmarine(at)gmail.com 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I majored in Government at U-Mass, but took a minor in education so I could teach if I couldn&rsquo;t get elected to public office. The School of Education at U-Mass was so bad, many high schools would not take student teachers from it. It was truly an amazing experience. Thankfully, I was elected to the Massachusetts senate the year I graduated (1972), so only substituted a couple of days and never looked back. I will link to this from my Old Jarhead blog.  <a href="http://(www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com)" rel="nofollow">(www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com)</a> </p>
<p>Robert A. Hall<br />
USMC 1964-68<br />
USMCR, 1977-83<br />
Massachusetts Senate, 1973-83<br />
Author: The Coming Collapse of the American Republic<br />
All royalties go to help wounded veterans<br />
For a free PDF of my 80-page book, write tartanmarine(at)gmail.com </p>
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		<title>By: Spider</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You are right Echo - This is  the plan that has been in work for decades now. This plan started coming to fruition in the mid 60s - That is to use the mass media and entertainment industriy  to crate an alternative universe of their choosing ( that doesn&#039;t really exist) and dumb down the population so they will be unable to use critical thinking skills to confront the system of mind control they created. All this so they can take your hard earned wealth and freedoms away - which they are taught to no longer appreciate.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You are right Echo &#8211; This is  the plan that has been in work for decades now. This plan started coming to fruition in the mid 60s &#8211; That is to use the mass media and entertainment industriy  to crate an alternative universe of their choosing ( that doesn&#039;t really exist) and dumb down the population so they will be unable to use critical thinking skills to confront the system of mind control they created. All this so they can take your hard earned wealth and freedoms away &#8211; which they are taught to no longer appreciate.  </p>
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		<title>By: AnOrdinaryMan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The hard work of using one&#039;s brain to figure out math problems has been replaced by, &quot;Can I get my calculator?&quot; How many students who ask this question really understand the math involved? Perhaps half.  
On the other hand, cursive isn&#039;t taught in many schools, either, with the result that a sizeable fraction of students can&#039;t write and can&#039;t do mathematics. And many of these same students have severe reading trouble as well. Can&#039;t read, can&#039;t write, can&#039;t do math. What are they in school for? Eliminate the Federal Dept. of Education.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>  The hard work of using one&#039;s brain to figure out math problems has been replaced by, &quot;Can I get my calculator?&quot; How many students who ask this question really understand the math involved? Perhaps half.<br />
On the other hand, cursive isn&#039;t taught in many schools, either, with the result that a sizeable fraction of students can&#039;t write and can&#039;t do mathematics. And many of these same students have severe reading trouble as well. Can&#039;t read, can&#039;t write, can&#039;t do math. What are they in school for? Eliminate the Federal Dept. of Education.  </p>
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		<title>By: davarino</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The teachers of yester year did a better job, with less money, fewer tools, no lap tops, fewer regulations, and a paddle. If only discipline could be restored to the class room, the only other thing necassary would be well educated teachers not beholden to the teachers union. 
 
My daughter is home schooling her daughter, and she is exceling beyond her age group in public schools. My daughter is doing this with only a high school diploma. Public school teachers could do so much more if they would throw off the unions and buck the system by going back to what worked, or they can wait till all the kids are either home schooled or going to private schools through vouchers. Looks like they prefer to go the route of the US postal service, irrelevance. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The teachers of yester year did a better job, with less money, fewer tools, no lap tops, fewer regulations, and a paddle. If only discipline could be restored to the class room, the only other thing necassary would be well educated teachers not beholden to the teachers union. </p>
<p>My daughter is home schooling her daughter, and she is exceling beyond her age group in public schools. My daughter is doing this with only a high school diploma. Public school teachers could do so much more if they would throw off the unions and buck the system by going back to what worked, or they can wait till all the kids are either home schooled or going to private schools through vouchers. Looks like they prefer to go the route of the US postal service, irrelevance. </p>
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		<title>By: EchoVector</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The system isn&#039;t broken.  
 
It is functioning exactly the way the powers that be wish it to function.  
 
A truly educated population is a danger to the system. Free thinking people are not so easily enslaved.  
 
By making each successive generation less and less able to apply critical thinking to their surroundings and position, those in control, behind the scenes, continue to consolidate and strengthen their power base. 
 
Welcome to &quot;Idiocracy&quot;. It is happening right in front of your eyes. 
 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The system isn&#039;t broken.  </p>
<p>It is functioning exactly the way the powers that be wish it to function.  </p>
<p>A truly educated population is a danger to the system. Free thinking people are not so easily enslaved.  </p>
<p>By making each successive generation less and less able to apply critical thinking to their surroundings and position, those in control, behind the scenes, continue to consolidate and strengthen their power base. </p>
<p>Welcome to &quot;Idiocracy&quot;. It is happening right in front of your eyes. </p>
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		<title>By: EchoVector</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The system isn&#039;t broken.  
 
It is functioning exactly the way the powers that be wish it to function.  
 
A truly educated population is a danger to the system. Free thinking people are not so easily enslaved.  
 
By making each successive generation less and less able to apply critical thinking to their surroundings and position, those in control, behind the scenes, continue to consolidate and strengthen their power base. 
 
Welcome to &quot;Idiocracy&quot;. It is happening right in front of your eyes. 
 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The system isn&#039;t broken.  </p>
<p>It is functioning exactly the way the powers that be wish it to function.  </p>
<p>A truly educated population is a danger to the system. Free thinking people are not so easily enslaved.  </p>
<p>By making each successive generation less and less able to apply critical thinking to their surroundings and position, those in control, behind the scenes, continue to consolidate and strengthen their power base. </p>
<p>Welcome to &quot;Idiocracy&quot;. It is happening right in front of your eyes. </p>
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		<title>By: Robin</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The colleges of education are now fully dominated by the behavioral sciences in order to make changing student values, attitudes, and beliefs the purpose of school. Some of the teachers are quite aware that their degrees in human development theory ride on theories that either track back to Marx or were created by Soviet psychologists at their Institute of Defectology during the Cold War. And then exported to the West under unappreciated meanings of the word &quot;pedagogy.&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/imitating-the-ussr-in-striving-to-discover-how-the-child-can-become-what-he-not-yet-is/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/imitating-the...&lt;/a&gt; lays out the Urie Bronfenbrenner admission from a 1977 article. 
 
Bronfenbrenner&#039;s Ecological Systems Theory, or as I refer to it, BEST, is a hugely influential teacher ed theory now. And it is to be a huge component of the Common Core classroom implementation under both the Next Generation Science Standards and the C3 Social Studies Standards. And it is factually untrue. It is a metaphor for how collectivists wish adults and children would see the world so they will be amenable to radical social, economic, and political changes. Or even better so emotionally committed they will feel impelled to take action to precipitate it. 
 
Solid education would provide the facts and initiative to recognize these deliberately instilled false beliefs designed to influence future behavior. So a weak knowledge base actually fits in with education as a political tool. Where changes in values, instincts, and especially carefully cultivated emotions are to drive future behaviors of most teachers and students in predictable ways. 
 
The abstract, knowledgeable mind is capable of defying a herd because it knows what it knows. That&#039;s unacceptable in the 21st century. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The colleges of education are now fully dominated by the behavioral sciences in order to make changing student values, attitudes, and beliefs the purpose of school. Some of the teachers are quite aware that their degrees in human development theory ride on theories that either track back to Marx or were created by Soviet psychologists at their Institute of Defectology during the Cold War. And then exported to the West under unappreciated meanings of the word &quot;pedagogy.&quot; <a href="http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/imitating-the-ussr-in-striving-to-discover-how-the-child-can-become-what-he-not-yet-is/" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/imitating-the" rel="nofollow">http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/imitating-the</a>&#8230; lays out the Urie Bronfenbrenner admission from a 1977 article. </p>
<p>Bronfenbrenner&#039;s Ecological Systems Theory, or as I refer to it, BEST, is a hugely influential teacher ed theory now. And it is to be a huge component of the Common Core classroom implementation under both the Next Generation Science Standards and the C3 Social Studies Standards. And it is factually untrue. It is a metaphor for how collectivists wish adults and children would see the world so they will be amenable to radical social, economic, and political changes. Or even better so emotionally committed they will feel impelled to take action to precipitate it. </p>
<p>Solid education would provide the facts and initiative to recognize these deliberately instilled false beliefs designed to influence future behavior. So a weak knowledge base actually fits in with education as a political tool. Where changes in values, instincts, and especially carefully cultivated emotions are to drive future behaviors of most teachers and students in predictable ways. </p>
<p>The abstract, knowledgeable mind is capable of defying a herd because it knows what it knows. That&#039;s unacceptable in the 21st century. </p>
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