Al Gore promises that, if elected, he will make it illegal for all teens to drop out of high school before age 18. (Currently they may drop out at 16). In other words he wants to use the guns and threat of police force to physically force students to not drop out....
Many people hear only one side of the story of our public schools, because only the teachers' unions have both the incentives and the millions of dollars required to produce sustained advertising campaigns about education. These campaigns intensify during an election...
It is amazing how many people who are "pro-choice" when it comes to abortion are against choice when it comes to education. Indeed, that is the official position of the Democratic Party. Despite Al Gore's rhetoric at the Democrats' convention in July about being...
To counteract the damage caused by Progressive Education, Woiceshyn put together a rigorous program of core academic subjects designed to motivate learning, build a solid foundation of essential knowledge and basic skills, and train logical thinking.
It was painful to watch. Our bright 9-year-old son was rapidly losing his love of learning. Dissatisfied with his private school, the best we could find, I decided to postpone my second career as a writer and home-school him--a choice many Americans are forced to make...
“Unable to deal with words or with numbers — having no means of knowing, but only of guessing — the child loses confidence in his mind.”
When I began to write this review, I hemmed and hawed about where to begin. Flipping through the meaty 764 pages, I was amused to note that the authors began the section entitled, "Using The Well-Trained Mind Without Losing Your Own" with the upfront statement, "This...
Under pressure from the religious right, the Illinois Board of Education has quietly eliminated the word "evolution" from state school standards. Liberals complain that this violates the separation between church state. But they're getting exactly what they deserve....
Bernstein blames John Dewey and his philosophy of Progressive Education for the decline in educational standards.
Is volunteerism actually good? Is service in slums and nursing homes a proper moral ideal that will galvanize the young, adding value and significance to their lives?
Andy had “mastered” the core principles of modern education too well.
Capitalism Magazine: Many people, sociologists and psychologists among them, blame the rash of shootings by kids in schools on the violence depicted in video games, movies, and TV and on the prevalence of guns in America. What do you think is the most fundamental...
The crisis in our schools is at heart a philosophical issue.
With guns and homemade bombs, two students executed a well-planned assault on fellow students at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, killing 15 including themselves and one teacher) and injuring many others. Eric Harris (18) and Dylan Klebold (17),...
The physical and mind crippling hazards of government schools are only manifestations of a deeper problem.
Society’s greatest concern, claim the so-called humanitarians, is our children–who are suffering from inadequate nutrition, shelter and health care. Yet these same “humanitarians” are silent about the scourge destroying a child’s mind–his textbooks.
Mandatory community service for high school students presents a clear moral issue: By what right do we treat our sons and daughters as beasts of burden?
Do parents have the right to decide which friends or extended family their children will spend time with?
The egalitarian’s hatred of excellence has metastasized throughout the culture. In order to level everyone down to the lowest common denominator, egalitarians sacrifice the achiever. Nowhere is this more dramatic–and tragic–than in education.
President Clinton wants more money for education. He's proposed tax credits and deductions for college students and large increases in Pell Grants for needy students. Clinton would have us believe that not enough students have a chance to go to the nation's 3,600...
For years I've said that if the Ku Klux Klan wanted to sabotage black academic excellence, they couldn't find a tool more effective than the public school system in most major cities.The evidence of that tragedy continues. The latest is contained in a Philadelphia...
Maryland must be a very safe state, because it has time to prosecute a mother who is teaching her daughter at home. The little girl of 7 scores above the national average on tests given by the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, which leading colleges across the...
This is no longer an educational system. Its character has been completely transformed and it now clearly reveals itself to be what for many decades it has been in the process of becoming: namely, an agency working for the barbarization of youth.
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