And We Call This Education?
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Lynn M. Stuter
One
of the responses I received to my last article Would
God Bless America stood out from all the rest for one reason: it was
from an individual who admitted being the product of our “new and improved”
system of education. Here is the response:
“How dare you promote
misleading hate towards Humainist. And you know some of us are christians.
i am a Humanist and a christian and cause of that i will not celebrate
the pagan holiday Christmas. While you put down the humanist which simply
means to leave each person better than when you met them. They believe
in promoting the goodwill in others. yet here you blast them for doing
the same thing Christ would do. Did you know Christ didn't celebrate
Birthdays no it was a traditional Pagan thing The jews didnot celebrate
Birthday. Nor did they believe in decorating trees that was pagan along
with everything else that is celbrated this time of year.,. So your
question is why would God Bless America ? Because unlike you me or anyone
else he understands and see things from a total different perspective
than us. He understands out of ignorance people say or do things but
he looks at their heart. Remember you were to take Jesus in your heart
and love him and it was your heart that was suppose to change. Not going
and expressing this kind of fear which Yahweh says not to fear . But
to spread the fear for what. what is your purpose and please let crucified
the humanist they only want to help the child who dont have enough to
eat or to reach the hand out to the one struggle to be free from Drugs.
before you attack a group 0f people do your homework and see what they
really are about. And also before judging who is doing what this holiday
season find out what the origins are that are Christkmas if we are celebrating
his birth well theres enough evidencve it didn't happen than. The time
of year was pick to coincident with the pagan Holistice. did you know
that. Do you know how much of Christmas is pagan. Seems the Cia has
successfully brainwash you and you are ready to attack the very people
who are fighting the battle against the elites. oh while you are checking
out Christmas also check out Eostere you may find something out about
that holiday yup pagan to. Maybe we should celebrate the Holidays of
our Saviour and instead of advocating fear we should try to help our
fellow man showing his Spirit by our action. And instead of Judging
others based on our own faulty understanding of the sitution we should
just stand and be quiet. And if you want the norms of society to change
than please stand up and go out and state these out in public instead
of behind a computer desk./ I have i have gone in public school and
proudly proclaim my saviour and stating when will we see the changes
of the heart instead of judging people based on who we think they are
when will we see them for who they are.” (As written.)
I shall
call this individual “Ms Muffet” for reasons of anonymity. My response
to Ms Muffet, in part, was as follows:
“Your inability
to articulate yourself coherently is obviously the product of your government
schooling. Were I your teacher, I would give you an F for what you wrote
… To begin, you don’t even make a logical argument because a logical
argument is based on facts and there aren’t any in what you wrote, just
how you feel. Secondly, your spelling and punctuation are atrocious.
Third, you obviously didn’t proof-read what you wrote to see if it even
made sense, which it doesn’t.”
In a
later e-mail, Ms Muffet stated:
“No the grammer
wasn’t check my GPA is still 3.40 I’m not writing a college level paper
so i don’tt need to check it.” (As written.)
In other
words, she doesn’t feel what she wrote important enough to take the time
to present herself as though she were writing the most important dissertation
ever. No pride in self, no pride in work product. Yet she truly believes
that anyone reading what she wrote should appreciate her, and further,
appreciate her point of view. This is the product of misplaced self-esteem.
Jake Halpern, writing for the Boston Globe, quoting Jean Twenge, a psychology
professor at San Diego State University, has termed the present product
of government schools narcissistic
and entitled.
Not
long ago, I had an exchange with an government school teacher, incensed
by something I had written about government schools. This teacher, in
her effort to defend her profession and her failure to properly educate
children, finally got around to stating that it “wasn’t [her] job to educate
children for intelligence”, she was educating children to be critical
thinkers. Like the critical thinker in the form of Ms Muffet above?
Another
teacher, run out of the government schools because he thought educating
for intelligence more important, wrote me the following when I sent him
the above response from Ms Muffet:
“I think I had
this lady in one of my classes. In four years of teaching English, I
saw a lot of essays and research papers written this poorly. The student,
parent and administrators couldn't understand why I would mark such
papers as failing and ultimately fail the student if he or she didn't
allow me to teach him how to write an effective paper without grammar,
spelling, punctuation and sentence structure errors The System calls
‘conventions’ and which they deem unimportant.”[1]
Spelling,
punctuation, capitalization, sentence structure — commonly referred to
as syntax — unimportant? What Ms Muffet wrote has all the earmarks of
someone who is functionally illiterate.
How
much money are we paying for the government schools to not educate children?
Even one penny is too much.
A small
business owner had this to say recently about children coming out of the
government schools: “They don’t know anything; furthermore, they
don’t know they don’t know anything; but they can certainly tell you how
they feel about everything. And they really and truly believe you
should appreciate them endlessly even though they don’t deserve it.” Notice
this small businessman had no trouble articulating himself succinctly.
His observations are astute, to the point, and quite accurate.
The
new system of education, brought into being by Goals 2000, School-to-Work,
and the Workforce Investment Act, along with the strategic plans known
as Improving America’s Schools Act (Clinton) and No Child Left Behind
(GW Bush), has now been in effect for one full education cycle of children,
pre-K through 12. This system of education, the American public was told
(and swallowed, hook, line and sinker), would improve education, produce
smarter children.
There
were some of us who knew better because we delved into the writings of
those advocating this system of education. From America’s Choice,
high skills or low wages!, (1990) page 25, comes this little gem
that should have clued parents that this system of education wasn’t what
they were being told it was:
“… in a broad survey
of employment needs across America, we found little evidence of a far-reaching
desire for a more educated workforce.”
Get
the drift? If not, here is another:
“We will need to
recognize that the so-called basic skills, which currently represent
the total effort in elementary schools, will be taught in one quarter
of the present school day...”[2]
Remember
when you were in grade school? Did you ever finish a text book in a year’s
time? Now, if it took a full school year to cram all the knowledge in
that book into your head, such that your brain was growing in knowledge
and ability to comprehend, how is it that schools today can do it “in
one quarter of the present school day”? The obvious answer is that they
can’t and they aren’t. Children are not being taught what children need
to know to grow and comprehend.
Education
today is focused on life-related issues (affective domain), knowledge
(cognitive domain) is only incorporated as it used and applied in addressing
life-related issues. It is easy to see, in the absence of knowledge, how
children can be effectively dumbed-down. In what Ms Muffet wrote, this
is clearly evident.
Be it
noted that Hillary Rodham Clinton was on the Board of Trustees of National
Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE), parent company of the
Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce (CSAW) that wrote America’s
Choice, high skills or low wages! Marc Tucker, president of NCEE,
was the individual who wrote the “Dear
Hillary” letter to Hillary Rodham Clinton shortly after Bill Clinton
was elected to his first term; the letter in which Tucker outlined a seamless,
cradle to grave, system of human resource development for the purposes
of producing a body of workers (not employees, workers) turned out according
to regional economic development strategies and regional labor market
needs under the auspices of the federal government.
It is
also noteworthy that many of the people who served on CSAW went on to
serve on the Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS)
under Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole (GHW Bush Administration); the
commission that wrote the SCANS competencies to which the education systems
of ALL states must coalesce. How better to ensure that the SCANS competencies
would coalesce the Tucker/Clinton human resource development plan for
producing dumbed-down workers.
People
want to believe that No Child Left Behind (HR 6 under GW Bush) is not
an extension of the Improving America’s Schools Act (HR 6 under Clinton).
Nothing could be further from the truth. These two acts are but successive
strategic plans in achieving the ultimate goal of the sustainable global
environment in the area of human resource development via schools.
America’s
failing education system is a direct outreach of the pursuit of global
governance in which the education system of ALL countries will coalesce
in pursuit of the sustainable global environment. Barbara Bush, wife of
President George Herbert Walker Bush, mother of President George Walker
Bush, presided over the first United
Nation’s World Conference on Education for All summit, held in Jomtien,
Thailand in 1990. The agenda of President GHW Bush’s America 2000 (later
renamed Goals 2000 under Clinton) coalesces the United Nation’s World
Conference on Education for All agenda, right down the line.
The
mantra of America education reformers has been “higher standards”. But
higher standards are not the goal when the education system is intended
to produce dumbed-down workers such as are found in Third World Nations.
This
comment makes clear the intent of the global economy:
“… despite political
and educational rhetoric to the contrary, most economic forecasts show
that a large proportion of the jobs the modern economy is creating are
low-skilled, part-time, and poorly paid.”[3]
Make
no mistake about President George W Bush’s comment that illegal aliens
are in America to
do the work Americans won’t do. What he is really saying is that America’s
education system has not digressed to the point of producing the third
world workers, willing to work for a pittance, that Mexico and other third
world nations have been producing for generations. And working for a pittance
is what is wanted by the big international corporations who stand to profit
when they can pay workers a pittance, sell the product for the same price
as they would if the employees were making an American middle-class wage
(not to mention health insurance, unemployment compensation and workmen’s
compensation benefits), and pocket the difference.
This
effects a redistribution of wealth from the middle class to the big international
corporations who are running the global one-world-government agenda. That
wealth is then used to keep the people enslaved through public/private
partnerships, the hallmark of fascism. [4]
This is called the
feudal system (of the Dark Ages) in which the workers look to the wealthy
land baron (in this case, the international corporations) for their very
existence. This is how a few elitists can control the multitudes: keep
them uneducated, keep them poor, keep them starved, keep them living in
squalor, take care of them commensurate with their willingness to increase
your wealth.
If the
American people do not want this — and I cannot, in my wildest dreams,
imagine any human being wanting to be a slave — then there is only one
presidential candidate who does not support the one-world agenda, who
is not owned by the globalists, who does not dance to the elitists’ tune.
His name is Ron Paul; his support base are the people who truly love America,
love our Constitution, love our Bill of Rights. We are many, they are
few. We can take our country back if we put our minds to it.
Footnotes:
1,
R C Murray,
www.voicefromthepews.com;
author of Legally
STUPiD: Why Johnny doesn’t have to read.
2,
Catherine Barrett, President of the National Education Association, in
an article in the Saturday Review of Education, in 1973.
3,
Apple, Michael, Beane, James; Democratic Schools; Association for the
Supervision of Curriculum Development (ASCD); 1995; p. 102.
4,
The United States government, at this time, is a partnership between big
business and government, the definition of fascism.
Mother and wife, Stuter has spent the past ten years researching systemstheory with a particular emphasis on education. She home schooled twodaughters, now grown and on their own. She has worked with legislators,both state and federal, on issues pertaining to systems governance and education reform.
She networks nation-wide with other researchers andcitizens concerned with the transformation of our nation. She has
traveled the United States and lived overseas. Web site: http://www.learn-usa.com/
E-Mail: lmstuter@mail.icehouse.net
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