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I decided to read this one just because I thought she couldn't really mean that the decline of America's instruction system was deliberate. That would be crazy, correct? Well, information technology is crazy. Information technology i
I read (or started to read) the Deliberate Dumbing Down of America by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt considering a homeschooling clan emailed me the costless pdf (which is available on the interwebs). I gotta cease reading these books that homeschoolers honey. It's like they are trying to talk me out of homeschooling.I decided to read this one only considering I idea she couldn't really mean that the refuse of America'due south education system was deliberate. That would exist crazy, right? Well, information technology is crazy. It is chalk total of crazy.
My beginning clue that I probably wasn't going to finish this book was in the foreward: "American social engineers accept systematically gone about destroying the intellect of millions of American children for the purpose of leading the American people into a socialist earth government controlled by behavioral and social scientist." Really? If merely this could be satirical, that sentence would be okay. Only since it was intentional, it is simply sad.
And then in her preface, the writer goes on and on about the socialist/fascist agenda, and their intentions to create a global workforce… blah, blah, blah. It is basically comes off equally the ramblings of an incredibly paranoid person. I'm not saying that Iserbyt is that person, merely that information technology this book doesn't rule that out.
The worst function nigh this book, and the reason that I didn't finish, is that it really contains more fiction than information technology does fact. Each affiliate takes on a decade of "history" where she lists her bear witness. It is almost completely uncited (there is a whole lot of "this person said blah, blah, blah" without whatever proof that anyone said anything similar it), and what is cited is often conspicuously taken out of context. This kind of "source textile" just makes me angry. I won't get so far as to say its all a bunch of lies, because I think she believes the case she is making. Just, there is no proof any of information technology is truthful.
Await, I think there is enough incorrect with the public schoolhouse organisation in America. That is the reason I'yard considering homeschooling my children. Only this? This conspiracy business just makes homeschoolers look like a agglomeration of wackadoodles.
Other people take said this was a terrifying read because of what information technology revealed. The merely scary thing well-nigh this book, to me, is that there are people who believe information technology.
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...more I couldn't put this book down. Only I don't recollect it is for everyone. It's extremely important and wow, what an immense amount of work and knowledge the author provides! Only it'due south not piece of cake reading. It's a paper trail of extremely annoying political writing and over-complicated attempts by person later person to offset appeal to someone'due south emotional rather than rational brain and and then slip in some tricky language so that everyone agrees with whatever he says. Then... totally obnoxious annoying shit. But sometimes fun if you bask the puzzle. And just mostly horrifying. I have never wanted to exit this country more.
Crazy how the authorities documents would have me convinced for fifty pages that the thought came from a good place and would do some good for the kiddies (like getting rid of grades and apprenticeships) just and then how it turns out to be totally evil.
When the government pushes for "no grades" what they are really pushing for is a different kid of grade, grading on things the authorities values. So instead of grades that measure work, the "grade-free" report cards are all most a student's timeliness, mental attitude, effort, cooperation, responsiveness to authorisation, etc. This is Not what I think of when I think of "no grades." And so here are the characteristics that a totalitarian government wants in its citizens. These are the traits that will go yous ahead, get y'all into the good schools, the good jobs--not brain power, but obedience. The more obedient will be rewarded with jobs that give them power. It's brilliant. And totally Hiter-esque.
In the 90's teachers were required in almost all public schools to make behavior office of the kids grade--whether the teacher wanted to or not. It's all about baby steps.
When regime pushes for "apprenticeships", it sounds so good! I totally support apprenticeships! That's what I want for my son! Just reeeeally, when you make apprenticeships part of the school program, you put the government in control of jobs. Kids and parents aren't out in that location looking for an apprenticeship that their child wants, the authorities decides what the kid gets based on his grades in schoolhouse (and remember his near important grade is obedience). A few more babe steps and at present you lot can merely become a license to work as a bakery if you accept washed an apprenticeship and you can't get an apprenticeship without the government... the government controls the jobs and we are a communist state.
I used to think that the schools had been taken over by the Democrats and that'southward why near people couldn't graduate from higher without becoming a liberal, at present I know that I was really onto something. The schools were taken over by behaviorists (on the payroll of Carnegie, Ford and Rockefeller) with a brainwashing agenda to brand the Us fascist/socialist a long long fourth dimension ago.
The fact that information technology took and then long shows the weaknesses of behaviorism and the strength of our sometime values. Merely infant steps, money, patience, "research," and 100 years and our country is pretty much socialist (but we call it liberty here!) Politics will follow ideology. Don't worry about today's men. Just take over the schools, brainwash the kids and everything will fall into place!
I am super curious nearly brainwashing now. Fascinating that what is taught does not affair as much every bit how information technology is taught. It is the methods that make people automatons who cannot think for themselves, not the subject thing. "The method IS the bulletin."
That's the problem with brainwashing and socialism and regime--as long as you concord with what they are doing to anybody else, information technology'south groovy! "Make them dumb religious folk turn to scientific discipline! This state would be a much better place if we all supported abortion, gay union, and evolution!" I tin just hear people I know cheering. But then when those in power decide to "Make them horrible rebels send their kids to public brainwash school, make them horrible hippies vaccinate their babies, brand them dissenters take mood-altering drugs, make people eat what we tell them to eat..." WHY DON'T PEOPLE Come across THIS? It'southward all the same! It doesn't matter what yous are MAKING people do, it doesn't thing how skillful you think it volition be for them or the world, the problem IS the MAKING.
Dear Would-Be Socialist Dictators, please read Non Violent Communication and Selection Theory. And John Locke. There IS another manner. Nosotros don't actually all have to hold on Annihilation except to respect each other.
My biggest complaint almost this book is that I wish Charlotte wrote more. I want to know more of her thoughts virtually education and solutions. And, I don't need such a long newspaper trails. One or two documents per category would have been fine. And I gotta say, I wouldn't have minded if she held my hand a lilliputian more. This book is like Iserbyt got out her file of evidence and published it. I would like her to write a new book with short chapters based around each regulation or educational platform rather than chronology. It could accompany this book so that when she refers to "Project INSTRUCT" I can flip open this volume and read a one folio summary about project Instruct, who started it, who is pushing for it, what its existent agenda is, etc.
Dear Charlotte, I appreciate your work here then much! Would honey to accept you to lunch....
And for parents similar me who want to know what I concluded from this book without having to read information technology:
-Absolutely no public schoolhouse for your kids
-If you want to practise private schoolhouse, brand certain the teachers are experts in their fields and do Non take instruction credentials, and try an alternative style Montessori or Acton
-If yous chose to homeschool, do non exercise it through the public system and be very careful near whatever organization y'all choose. Probably all-time for you to be the teacher. Remember the quote at the top--With basic math, reading, and writing skills your child will be able to practise almost anything he wishes with his life. This is not a costly or complicated thing to teach your kid.
-Flee, flee the country. And vote for liberty in every surface area virtually everything at all time. Vote to accept power away from the government.
i read it a few years ago and it just came to me, just at present, in a flash and i don't even want a pickle.
so...here i am, writing this. i read it on-line....did i use that hyphen correctly? and does it thing?
anyway, this piece of work, every bit the sub-title says...
this lady, i believe she was secretary of educational activity at some point during the reagan years, had been away, out of the state, where i don't recall. she returns to the united states of americaa. and is shocked past what she sees in american education. she compiled this book.i read it a few years ago and it only came to me, just now, in a flash and i don't fifty-fifty desire a pickle.
so...here i am, writing this. i read it on-line....did i apply that hyphen correctly? and does it affair?
anyway, this work, as the sub-title says....(hyphen hyphen....where's my notes?) "a chronological paper trail."
she documents the deliberate dumbing down of america...yes, sure, you're thinking, what a conspiracy nutcase? am i correct? affair is, she doesn't provide commentary, she but records the paper trail....
...different say John Taylor Gatto, who in his The Hugger-mugger History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling does provide commentary.
reading this, you understand why the network news, (you do recall dan rather coming out, phase left, during the election w/a paper suggesting george bush's old man kept him out of the war? or whatever?
and cbs, breastwork of "that's the way information technology was" does it w/o blinking an eye?)
sorry, getting away from the thing at manus, this work by iserbyt.
i mean, merely....and so the paper trail is there, y'all can read it and ignore it...like i said, she doesn't provide commentary....so, like, does that mean information technology is objective?
words, words, words, and so said our favorite dane....
this book is one of many that certificate the same story.
well worth a read! i tin can't remember what yr i read it....
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Past the time I finished reading BK Eakman's "Cloning the American Mind, I was fired up. A community friend connected me with Chalotte Iserbyt. Chalotte came to Maryland to exist a keynote speaker at almanac PTA Awards meeting I co-planned. She shipped 100 copies of this book and she gave autographed copies of this book to all that attended. We became friends. For me, this book connected the dots in the research I was doing regarding the instruction system where I lived.If you desire to understand the process of education reform in America, this volume is the road map. Chalotte is working on a new transmission. To get prepared for her new release, you must read this book. This is a must take have reference transmission for all instruction advocates.
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vi credits for American History 1 & 2, 3 credits for psychology, iii cre I read this book a few years ago, information technology is a slap-up book! I loaned it to my cousin, he loaned information technology to his father-in-law, the Mother-in-law read it and I don't know where it is today simply at least a few people got to read it before information technology disappeared. This volume convinced me to home school my daughter, I'm so happy that I did. She has graduated Home High School, her senior yr, she passed seven College C.L.E.P. exams, for 27 College credits.
6 credits for American History 1 & 2, 3 credits for psychology, 3 credits for folklore, 3 credits for college algebra, 3 credits for American Authorities and 6 credits for American Literature, 3 credits for Human Growth and development. ...more
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While I haven't read the book comprehend to embrace (this is more of a reference book), I have read enough of it to go the idea. Information technology is well-written and very,
I've not read/studied this book even so, though I've listened to many hours of her lectures on diverse, related subjects. If anyone is interested, she IS a compelling speaker, if you lot can get through her introduction. But enter "Iserbyt" in the search box on YouTube and lots of videos volition pop up.*****************************************************
While I haven't read the book cover to cover (this is more than of a reference book), I have read enough of it to get the idea. Information technology is well-written and very, very informative. This is an splendid companion to John Taylor Gatto's "An Underground History of American Education".
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Depressing, helped me decide to get out of the education enterprise, away from upkeep politics and the good ole male child/gal net I was never invited into. Paper trail of the "teaching reform" over the past century.
Depressing, helped me decide to get out of the pedagogy enterprise, abroad from budget politics and the proficient ole male child/gal net I was never invited into. ...more
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