Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Schools were once thought of as places where a society’s knowledge and experience were passed on to the younger generation. But, about a hundred years ago, Professor John Dewey of Columbia University came up with a very different conception of education — one that has spread through American schools of education, and even influenced education in countries overseas.
John Dewey saw the role of the teacher, not as a transmitter of a society’s culture to the young, but as an agent of change — someone strategically placed, with an opportunity to condition students to want a different kind of society.
A century later, we are seeing schools across America indoctrinating students to believe in all sorts of politically correct notions. The history that is taught in too many of our schools is a history that emphasizes everything that has gone bad, or can be made to look bad, in America — and that gives little, if any, attention to the great achievements of this country….To Read More…..
My Take - The goal of the Progressive Movement going back to the 1890's was for education to make sure that the 'apple fell as far away from the tree as possible'; with the intent of making sure that it wasn't the parents or the churches that formed the moral foundational values of children, but the state. They have been successful because it took place so slowly society didn't notice; taxes became such an issue that the American Dream was impossible unless both parents worked, which made it more difficult for parents to follow up on what was going on; they used our own values against us and the churches became corrupted.
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