Thank you! Essays of this nature and quality are sorely lacking and need to be written and promoted. Good work!
My father, long gone, used to say that all a person needs to learn is to know how to read AND understand what he has read. With this knowledge, he can learn anything. I have never abandoned that teaching and it has been extremely beneficial to me.
I did abandon high school halfway through 11th grade even though I would have graduated near the top of my class if I had applied myself. However, I wasn't being taught what I wanted to learn and did not want to learn what was being taught, so I bailed out even though everyone around me thought I was making a big mistake. I have never regretted the action and would probably do it again, earlier, if the situation were to repeat. I have not quit learning, though, and will continue that until the day when I can learn no more. Hopefully, as the song says, "That'll be the day...when I die."
Today, while those around me watch videos and movies of others talking and acting, I read. Constantly read, and encourage others to do the same. Unfortunately, most of that advice probably falls on deaf ears and is lost, but the truth in what I say never disappears, even as the truth of this article will stand forever.
In retrospect, it was kids like you, who intuitively understood something was wrong and got out, that escaped the indoctrination and training that we "good kids" endured only to be harmed by it. Later in life I began figuring out my education was indoctrination and have worked trying to counter it. Thanks for your comment.
My oldest son left college halfway through Jr. semester over his frustration that the courses lacked dialogue and critical thinking just memorization. Our other son in grammar school would bring home math homework with poor grades even though all his answers were correct. This was because he wasn’t using the new math to arrive at the answers. He could verbally explain to us and his teacher how he did much of the computation in his head, but the teacher continued to reprimand him that was the wrong way. If I could go back in time, I would homeschool.
I so agree Karen. I saw this happening also with my kids. I had a pivotal moment in my assessment of our educational system while helping my daughter study for a high school exam (even at a respected selective private school) when she told me that I shouldn't bother asking her certain questions for test prep as she had been provided with a specific list of questions that would be on the exam. My response was that she should be studying all the concepts for the sake of learning to think rather than being spoon-fed and expected to regurgitate.
My son was frustrated at school because the teacher would list what references they were allowed to use for a project - and no others! No independent investigation was permitted.
This made me crazy with my kids...that they could do the math in their heads but get marked down for it. GOOD GRIEF!!! I've been a questioner my whole life - much to the chagrine of my parents and teachers. "Because I told you so" - what an answer! I'm with you - I thought homeshool was terrible when my oldest kids were in school, but now I wouldn't think twice about doing it. My eldest grandchildren are in govt schools, but my youngest was just born - homebirth, no vaccines or interventions and he will be homeschooled. Such a relief.
When our boys were young, homeschooled kids had a stigma of being strange, not knowing how to socialize but now, that’s not the case. I admit, I fell into that biased category back then. Wonderful for your youngest grandchild!
Haha, I felt same about homeschooled kids...I think I was so used to cookie cutter govt school kids so kids who weren't indoctrinated seemed weird. That said, I did have experience with some homeschooled kids and they were weird - lol!! But now I think weird is good. I'm so happy about my youngest grandchild. My oldest daughter thinks I'm whackadoo so there is no discussion on vaccines or school, etc. So I pray alot for them. She has her master's in public health. That should tell you all youi need to know, sadly.
Thanks for this. Excellent essay. I cringe every time I think about my own state-sanctioned education. I did, however, learn how to watch the clock anticipating my freedom from the boredom I and my fellow classmates endured every, single day for years on end.
A blind faith in vaccines is both multi-ethnic and multi-generational, and societies striving for modernity tag along. To deconstruct this "blind faith" is our job.
And this outstanding essay doesn't even begin to touch on the drugging of nonconforming students, diagnosing them as diseased i.e., ADD, ADHD, Bipolar, Oppositionally Defiant ad nauseam. Check out No Child Left Different, by Sharna Olfman where she analyzes the "Pathology of Normalcy."
Academic streaming, opening different educational/professional pathways depending on ability and interest, is a much better idea than a one-size-fits-all approach, where a sensitive and intelligent kid or an average kid, keen on learning, has to sit beside a Neandrrthslian and gets beaten up in breaktime for being too smart.
Meritocracy is good. Good students, performing well due to talent or hard work, should be rewarded with honours and high marks in order to provide incentives and set an example. Of course, a discussion is necessary on what the relevant benchmarks (e.g. critical thinking) should be. In the UK, the 'all must have medals' policy was popular, meaning that high performers were demoralized, low performers not incentivised.
Employers often complain how unskilled and ignorant school graduates are, so clearly the system does not make them happy.
The Prussian education system from primary school (Prussia was one of the first European countries to achieve general literacy) to Humbold's university system (Ivy League is modelled on it) was widely admired, and rightly so.
Supranational institutions (WHO; UNICEF) normalize adverse psychometric neuro-developmental consequences of neonatal and childhood vaccines.
An international psychometric instrument “approved” by UNICEF and the WHO, Ages and Stages Questionnaire® (ASQ®)-3 2014, 2017, that claims to assess the neuro-developmental (ND) characteristics of neonates and young children appears blind to the ND consequences of vaccination.
Concealed by an apparent absence of controlled studies to establish the reliability, and the sensitivity and specificity (validity) of this psychometric instrument to detect ND consequences in vaccinated compared against unvaccinated neonatal and childhood populations, ensures that with the arguable exception of catastrophic outliers, and notably, in the face of an established escalation in the incidence of autism, there is nothing to see here.
Furthermore, the refusal to use a control to establish the effect(s) of vaccination measured by the psychometric assessment of gross motor, fine motor, communication, personal social, and problem solving abilities, serves not only to conceal but to ‘bake-in’ the potentially detrimental ND consequences of scheduled vaccinations, while it also serves to further confound the utility of a scientifically and ethically impoverished instrument in its evaluation of cognitive variables in other areas (ie. EMF).
An amazing essay, and you mentioned one of my heroes.....Mr. Gatto. I am of the same opinion that schools indoctrinate, and fail to teach critical thinking...and sadly, not even the basics anymore. Children that come to me for remedial work cannot read or write correctly.
As an elementary teacher for over 30 years, I have observed a remarkable decline in intelligence, discernment, curiosity...shall I go on? I went out on my own about eight years ago and taught privately but it's no longer rewarding to work with students that have gone through the appalling system we call school...working with babies is perhaps a way to escape the nonsense, but it's not the same for me when the verbal dialogue is missing, the wonder of words does it for me, the amazing library of written words to share and to work with. Unfortunately, I have not met a brilliant child for many years......my God, it is sad. I am changing professions even at this late stage because it angers me as well as saddens me. Eileen
I knew Charlotte Iserbyt as we met for lunch after my book Credentialed to Destroy: How and Why Education Became a Weapon came out. I cover how Reading was deliberately mistaught because of the biological impact fluent phonetic reading has on the brain's synaptic architecture in my Chapter 2 and then went on to cover the actual intent behind the math and science wars and the true nature of Constructivism in Chapter 3.
Because transformational ideas never cease the current Learner Profiles and Portrait of a Graduate are where OBE has now gone. It is about changing the student at the level of the mind so that their perception and interpretation of experiences are predictable and thus controllable. Not being able to read and think properly are a tremendous help which is why I invented the term Mind Arson.
Be careful with the phrase 'engaged citizens' given where Danielle Allen's Roadmap to American Democracy is taking American students. Reminds me of Freeman Butts who I also covered in my book.
Thank you Robin. Charlotte, in my view, got a raw deal from Reagan who I view in hindsight, as a globalist scumbag. The Gipper ran on closing the DOE then promptly doubled its budget with help from Teddy Kennedy!
I am in the UK. When I tried to see what you pointed to, the message was that bitchute was no longer available in the UK because of "the regulatory landscape" - we are no longer allowed to educate ourselves. When I went to school in the 1940s there was some rote learning but lots of exploration.
I've learned so much from both Iserbyt and Gatto and understanding their work influenced me for the better. The orchestrated dumbing down had multiple facets with education being just a fraction. The media also had a huge role in popularizing being dumb, starting with dumb music and dumb actors, blond bimbos and goofy or silent men. Then we started getting dumber and dumber politicians and now it's cool to be dumb, kids celebrate it. To be inquisitive and curious is to be a geek or a teacher's pet. Gangsta worship started in the 40s and just look how mainstream it is today. Dumb and ugly is what mainstream now worships.
Thank you! Essays of this nature and quality are sorely lacking and need to be written and promoted. Good work!
My father, long gone, used to say that all a person needs to learn is to know how to read AND understand what he has read. With this knowledge, he can learn anything. I have never abandoned that teaching and it has been extremely beneficial to me.
I did abandon high school halfway through 11th grade even though I would have graduated near the top of my class if I had applied myself. However, I wasn't being taught what I wanted to learn and did not want to learn what was being taught, so I bailed out even though everyone around me thought I was making a big mistake. I have never regretted the action and would probably do it again, earlier, if the situation were to repeat. I have not quit learning, though, and will continue that until the day when I can learn no more. Hopefully, as the song says, "That'll be the day...when I die."
Today, while those around me watch videos and movies of others talking and acting, I read. Constantly read, and encourage others to do the same. Unfortunately, most of that advice probably falls on deaf ears and is lost, but the truth in what I say never disappears, even as the truth of this article will stand forever.
In retrospect, it was kids like you, who intuitively understood something was wrong and got out, that escaped the indoctrination and training that we "good kids" endured only to be harmed by it. Later in life I began figuring out my education was indoctrination and have worked trying to counter it. Thanks for your comment.
May God continue to bless you n yours.
My oldest son left college halfway through Jr. semester over his frustration that the courses lacked dialogue and critical thinking just memorization. Our other son in grammar school would bring home math homework with poor grades even though all his answers were correct. This was because he wasn’t using the new math to arrive at the answers. He could verbally explain to us and his teacher how he did much of the computation in his head, but the teacher continued to reprimand him that was the wrong way. If I could go back in time, I would homeschool.
I so agree Karen. I saw this happening also with my kids. I had a pivotal moment in my assessment of our educational system while helping my daughter study for a high school exam (even at a respected selective private school) when she told me that I shouldn't bother asking her certain questions for test prep as she had been provided with a specific list of questions that would be on the exam. My response was that she should be studying all the concepts for the sake of learning to think rather than being spoon-fed and expected to regurgitate.
This is the future that is wanted-people who are dumb-downed are much easier to control.
My son was frustrated at school because the teacher would list what references they were allowed to use for a project - and no others! No independent investigation was permitted.
Wow, so pretty much all student projects will be identical without creative exploration, also making it easier on the teacher.
This made me crazy with my kids...that they could do the math in their heads but get marked down for it. GOOD GRIEF!!! I've been a questioner my whole life - much to the chagrine of my parents and teachers. "Because I told you so" - what an answer! I'm with you - I thought homeshool was terrible when my oldest kids were in school, but now I wouldn't think twice about doing it. My eldest grandchildren are in govt schools, but my youngest was just born - homebirth, no vaccines or interventions and he will be homeschooled. Such a relief.
When our boys were young, homeschooled kids had a stigma of being strange, not knowing how to socialize but now, that’s not the case. I admit, I fell into that biased category back then. Wonderful for your youngest grandchild!
Haha, I felt same about homeschooled kids...I think I was so used to cookie cutter govt school kids so kids who weren't indoctrinated seemed weird. That said, I did have experience with some homeschooled kids and they were weird - lol!! But now I think weird is good. I'm so happy about my youngest grandchild. My oldest daughter thinks I'm whackadoo so there is no discussion on vaccines or school, etc. So I pray alot for them. She has her master's in public health. That should tell you all youi need to know, sadly.
It’s never too late !
Bless you n yours
After reading this essay there should be no question why so many Americans fell for the psy-op of the last five years.
Exactly!!
And are still falling for the heliocentric model!
Even Einstein fell for it:).
Great point.
Thanks for this. Excellent essay. I cringe every time I think about my own state-sanctioned education. I did, however, learn how to watch the clock anticipating my freedom from the boredom I and my fellow classmates endured every, single day for years on end.
Chemistry ended at 10,23 three days a week and 11:09 the other two. The clock is engraved on my memory as much as covalent bonds.
🙏
A blind faith in vaccines is both multi-ethnic and multi-generational, and societies striving for modernity tag along. To deconstruct this "blind faith" is our job.
Over the past several decades, Americans have been spoiled rotten with material success and delusions of grandeur…
we desperately cling to our comforts and hide inside our bubbles of self-deception.
We are slaves to authority,
and material comforts have lulled us to sleep 😴
Additionally…decades of propaganda from the Media, the schools and Hollywood have turned us into zombies. 😵💫
The relatively easy way that Western populations complied with the Plandemic restrictions revealed:
1) intellectual laziness
(people accepting government explanations without questioning or researching anything for themselves) and
2) love of comfort
(people afraid of losing their jobs or their pleasures of traveling or socializing).
We were tested…
and most failed 😖
I hated public school with all my ♥.
And this outstanding essay doesn't even begin to touch on the drugging of nonconforming students, diagnosing them as diseased i.e., ADD, ADHD, Bipolar, Oppositionally Defiant ad nauseam. Check out No Child Left Different, by Sharna Olfman where she analyzes the "Pathology of Normalcy."
Great point.
This makes me sad :(
Once upon a time, I assumed all in "the alternative media" had deprogrammed.
Sadly not.
Agreed.
I find Conservatives as blockheaded as
the ignorant Liberals if you challenge them.
I have to disagree with a couple of points:
Academic streaming, opening different educational/professional pathways depending on ability and interest, is a much better idea than a one-size-fits-all approach, where a sensitive and intelligent kid or an average kid, keen on learning, has to sit beside a Neandrrthslian and gets beaten up in breaktime for being too smart.
Meritocracy is good. Good students, performing well due to talent or hard work, should be rewarded with honours and high marks in order to provide incentives and set an example. Of course, a discussion is necessary on what the relevant benchmarks (e.g. critical thinking) should be. In the UK, the 'all must have medals' policy was popular, meaning that high performers were demoralized, low performers not incentivised.
Employers often complain how unskilled and ignorant school graduates are, so clearly the system does not make them happy.
Yes, but you are assuming the brain isn't already fried by years of mind-numbing cult conditioning, Prussian-style!
The Prussian education system from primary school (Prussia was one of the first European countries to achieve general literacy) to Humbold's university system (Ivy League is modelled on it) was widely admired, and rightly so.
Yes, obedient, literate, robots.
Supranational institutions (WHO; UNICEF) normalize adverse psychometric neuro-developmental consequences of neonatal and childhood vaccines.
An international psychometric instrument “approved” by UNICEF and the WHO, Ages and Stages Questionnaire® (ASQ®)-3 2014, 2017, that claims to assess the neuro-developmental (ND) characteristics of neonates and young children appears blind to the ND consequences of vaccination.
Concealed by an apparent absence of controlled studies to establish the reliability, and the sensitivity and specificity (validity) of this psychometric instrument to detect ND consequences in vaccinated compared against unvaccinated neonatal and childhood populations, ensures that with the arguable exception of catastrophic outliers, and notably, in the face of an established escalation in the incidence of autism, there is nothing to see here.
Furthermore, the refusal to use a control to establish the effect(s) of vaccination measured by the psychometric assessment of gross motor, fine motor, communication, personal social, and problem solving abilities, serves not only to conceal but to ‘bake-in’ the potentially detrimental ND consequences of scheduled vaccinations, while it also serves to further confound the utility of a scientifically and ethically impoverished instrument in its evaluation of cognitive variables in other areas (ie. EMF).
The Camouflaged Tools of War? The Great BigPharma 'Bake-Off'. https://drlatusdextro.substack.com/p/the-camouflaged-tools-of-war
Amen !
An amazing essay, and you mentioned one of my heroes.....Mr. Gatto. I am of the same opinion that schools indoctrinate, and fail to teach critical thinking...and sadly, not even the basics anymore. Children that come to me for remedial work cannot read or write correctly.
As an elementary teacher for over 30 years, I have observed a remarkable decline in intelligence, discernment, curiosity...shall I go on? I went out on my own about eight years ago and taught privately but it's no longer rewarding to work with students that have gone through the appalling system we call school...working with babies is perhaps a way to escape the nonsense, but it's not the same for me when the verbal dialogue is missing, the wonder of words does it for me, the amazing library of written words to share and to work with. Unfortunately, I have not met a brilliant child for many years......my God, it is sad. I am changing professions even at this late stage because it angers me as well as saddens me. Eileen
Never ever give up. Not ever !
There are other ways to contribute......:-)
Even if education was reformed, a lot of kids today are too vaxxed (or damaged from other toxins) to benefit from it.
This makes my blood boil every time I read it. https://www.bitchute.com/video/ypiiOJCeF7C0/
I knew Charlotte Iserbyt as we met for lunch after my book Credentialed to Destroy: How and Why Education Became a Weapon came out. I cover how Reading was deliberately mistaught because of the biological impact fluent phonetic reading has on the brain's synaptic architecture in my Chapter 2 and then went on to cover the actual intent behind the math and science wars and the true nature of Constructivism in Chapter 3.
Because transformational ideas never cease the current Learner Profiles and Portrait of a Graduate are where OBE has now gone. It is about changing the student at the level of the mind so that their perception and interpretation of experiences are predictable and thus controllable. Not being able to read and think properly are a tremendous help which is why I invented the term Mind Arson.
Be careful with the phrase 'engaged citizens' given where Danielle Allen's Roadmap to American Democracy is taking American students. Reminds me of Freeman Butts who I also covered in my book.
Thank you Robin. Charlotte, in my view, got a raw deal from Reagan who I view in hindsight, as a globalist scumbag. The Gipper ran on closing the DOE then promptly doubled its budget with help from Teddy Kennedy!
Look a little deeper, and you’ll find that Reagan was hemmed in by Bush, Sr and the other Deep State players…
that was the message conveyed in the early assassination attempt.
Among other things, he served a great purpose in bringing down the USSR and reviving 🇺🇸 patriotism.
I am in the UK. When I tried to see what you pointed to, the message was that bitchute was no longer available in the UK because of "the regulatory landscape" - we are no longer allowed to educate ourselves. When I went to school in the 1940s there was some rote learning but lots of exploration.
Really? You may want to look at www.spellcode.info also.
www.spellcode.info’s DNS address could not be found.
Brings to mind, Bob Geldof 'another brick in the wall'
Excellent, as usual!
I've learned so much from both Iserbyt and Gatto and understanding their work influenced me for the better. The orchestrated dumbing down had multiple facets with education being just a fraction. The media also had a huge role in popularizing being dumb, starting with dumb music and dumb actors, blond bimbos and goofy or silent men. Then we started getting dumber and dumber politicians and now it's cool to be dumb, kids celebrate it. To be inquisitive and curious is to be a geek or a teacher's pet. Gangsta worship started in the 40s and just look how mainstream it is today. Dumb and ugly is what mainstream now worships.