I'm the infamous Fred of GIM - Jewboo kindly turned over his account to me.
There has been a delibrate dumbing down of our school system by the progressives. I received this in my email this morning. I am not promoting his cause. I am posting it because it reflects on your statement. Food for thought.
How do you conquer a nation without firing a shot?Leading Progressives like John Dewey came up with the answer over a century ago. Just embed your agenda into the educational system, and in a few generations you will transform the country.
Political Progressives had little use for America’s founding principles. Woodrow Wilson, the first progressive president, complained that “some citizens of this country have never got beyond the Declaration of Independence,” and said the Declaration was “of no consequence” to modern Americans. This view now dominates in our public schools.
And educational Progressives had little use for traditional teaching methods and purposes. Rather than teaching the Great Books of the Western tradition, Dewey recommended education as social development. The past century has seen curricular and teaching excellence replaced with short-lived theories rarely lasting more than a generation.
As a result, many public schools are no longer effective at teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic. They also no longer teach young Americans the history of their country—how it was founded on the principle of equal rights, and how it grew to become the freest and most prosperous nation in history.
Good citizenship is impossible without this knowledge about America, and as a result our liberty is fading fast.
That’s why Hillsdale has launched the Barney Charter School Initiative: to answer the urgent need for fundamental reform of American K-12 education. After just five years, the initiative has helped found 13 charter schools nationwide, with a goal of opening fifty schools by 2022—each one based on a classical liberal arts curriculum, and each one including a strong history and civics component.
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Jewboo (12th December 2015),mick silver (27th April 2016),Neuro (12th December 2015)
Not debating that since I agree.
I'm just saying that there's increased ability to multi-task in younger people which gives them better/faster running time with modern tech.
Basically the way my brain is wired is totally different than yours. I grew up on a computer/video games. My entire life. Almost all of my free time.
I think I benefited from it personally, even though I'm a total autistic wreck if you ever met me IRL. I'm much better online.
I'm the infamous Fred of GIM - Jewboo kindly turned over his account to me.
gunDriller (13th December 2015),mick silver (27th April 2016),Neuro (12th December 2015)
I do think you'ld benefit if you turned off the computer, let's say one day in a week (not sure if that is enough, but it is a good start), and during that day you sat down and read a book. I have no doubt you are intelligent (I would say very intelligent), it would evolve you into something even better I think, allow your mind to think through more complex scenarios in a more linear and focused manner, and also prepare you for a future where information technology may be useless. Sorry for the patronizing...
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“Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you’re not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean, mad-dog mean. ‘Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That’s just the way it is.” ~ Outlaw Josey Wales…
STOP F*CKING WITH US.
midnight rambler (13th December 2015)
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I'm the infamous Fred of GIM - Jewboo kindly turned over his account to me.