thank you for this, but wasn't Russell just quoting Fichte when he stated 'Education should aim at destroying free will'? and I don't think he was endorsing the statement either... His whole book was debating the potential (titular) impacts , and he goes on to discuss how dictatorships might use this and other strategies to entirely shape the character of the young...
"Vile" Bertrand Russell believed that mass education served to enforce the dominant paradigms of the ruling class; he thought that this was bad, because it did not take into account the actual child, regarding the student as mere material to be manipulated and controlled. What he personally believed was that education should have a "spirit of reverence" for the child's intellectual and emotional development. The author of the article also mistakes a satirical essay lampooning the extremism of the left and right as an earnest editorial. Gross misrepresentations of another person's work is, to my mind, worse than plagiarism--at least in the latter case, the meaning is preserved. Nice presentation of Iserbyt, though--
I'm glad I grew up before all this FREE S, got a strangled hold in the medical world.
Dumbing people down, stops the critical thinking process. You no longer question. Slave owners rarely educated slaves to keep them ignorant. We see the effect today in the difference of cities like Memphis who hand out grades, vs the county who must earn the grades. This has been going on there for the 50 years I lived within the county, and now the next county, who require students to learn.
My 8th grade educated parents drove that message home when I was a teen. My grandma never went to school or learned to drive, she was a child of the generation that thought only males needed educating. Yet she worked, raised 8, through the Great Depression. Grandpa was a decade older. Made sure his children went to school. The Appalachians is a whole other world. Until government programs were brought in.
Look what the 'White man' did to our Indigenous Natives. Stole their lands, killed many, Res life was and still is bad.
In 1819, King Kamehameha brought all neighbor islands together to form The Hawaiian Kingdom. His son, in 1840, provided compulsory education to all youth, becoming the 5th country in the world to do so, 77 years before the United States. Subjects taught: Algebra, geometry, calculus, trig, English grammar, geography, Hawaiian & world history, political economy and science. Students travelled abroad to learn medicine, foreign languages, engineering, engraving, sculpture, music, and military science.
As a matter of fact, Dr Sun-Yat-sen, got his secondary education from the Iolani college between 1879-1883 and said he learned what modern, civilized governance was from the Hawaiian Kingdom. Little did he know that he would be taken down by another so-called civilized country some decades later. The Kingdom was populated by Aboriginals, Germans, Americans, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Norwegians where racism, under no conditions, existed in the Kingdom, and free heath care for all prevailed.
I don't know what or if the Catholic church had to do with copying the exact same curriculum as Hawaiians were taught, 115 years later when I got to school, but it looks identical to me. It is truly unfathomable to me that school kids today have no clue how to write, diagram a sentence, ergo, no punctuation, know nothing of history of their own country, let alone world history, no vocabulary skills, times tables what's that?, can't do arithmetic in their heads.
It is plain as the nose on your face that education has been destroyed and only after the Boomers are gone will things settle down as our educational history is erased to make our current crop of students take over as the norm. What a shame. To end this missive.........
Grover Cleveland, in 1893 stole, from Queen Lili'uokalani, The Hawaiian Kingdom with their Constitutional Monarchy in tact, recognized unconditionally by all substantive powers in the world as a sovereign and neutral independent state. Not to be confused with Ukraine, which is NOT a sovereign state. You'd have to know history to know that.
Stay in a cheap hotel for a while next door to a school in Thailand (which will be a multi story concrete building with open windows and about 2000 students of mixed ages inside). The education consists of the Thai teacher saying a sentence and about 200 classroom kids repeating it back as loudly as they can. That goes on for the entire day:).
I mention Conceptual Frameworks in my comment and covered the Reading Wars and how there was never a genuine dispute on how to teach reading. There was a recognition that a Fluent Phonetic Reader would not be using the desired Conceptual Frameworks that have been incorporated into each state's competency frameworks. It was the real purpose of the Common Core.
I wrote the 2013 book Credentialed to Destroy: How and Why Education Became a Weapon. I also knew Charlotte Iserbyt and talked to her in person about Outcomes Based Education which I had covered in depth in my book. Today's Learner Profiles and Portrait of a Graduate are simply a renamed and sanitized term masking the continued aims of what was termed Transformational Outcomes Based Education. And yes, it's function is to destroy free will without that being apparent to the person whose decision making is guided from having their conceptual framework, perceptions, attitudes, and beliefs all usefully manipulated by the ed system-preschool to higher ed.
To your second point, remember that Ideas create Consciousness and if you redefine concepts from their historic meaning without disclosure and make those Categories of Thought what guides perception and how experiences get interpreted you are effectively guiding and motivating action that aims to go in a direction the student doesn't appreciate.
What I didn't see mentioned was anything about how "public education" started in the first place. Compulsory public education started in the 1870's. Before that it was it was some form of private education, mainly among the rich. From its very beginning it was a top-down enterprise. The Robber Barons needed workers who could read and calculate. America's industrial expansion required it. Public education has always served the interests of the ruling elites. The "dumbing down" of public education serves the interests of elites as well as will any changes to public education in the future.
Putting philosophy aside for a moment, dumbing down the people is the job of education and food industry. Which, of course, doesn't preclude vaccines and media leftardation.
I grew up in Camden Maine and lived there when Charlotte was on the school board. She seemed like a squeaky wheel and now looms as a profit. Fantastic. How things change including me!
thank you for this, but wasn't Russell just quoting Fichte when he stated 'Education should aim at destroying free will'? and I don't think he was endorsing the statement either... His whole book was debating the potential (titular) impacts , and he goes on to discuss how dictatorships might use this and other strategies to entirely shape the character of the young...
"Vile" Bertrand Russell believed that mass education served to enforce the dominant paradigms of the ruling class; he thought that this was bad, because it did not take into account the actual child, regarding the student as mere material to be manipulated and controlled. What he personally believed was that education should have a "spirit of reverence" for the child's intellectual and emotional development. The author of the article also mistakes a satirical essay lampooning the extremism of the left and right as an earnest editorial. Gross misrepresentations of another person's work is, to my mind, worse than plagiarism--at least in the latter case, the meaning is preserved. Nice presentation of Iserbyt, though--
Yes, Charlotte was a pioneer. I cured Dyslexia; that's right cured, and met with nothing but derision. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325550040_Dyslexia_is_a_Fiction
See Also: The Underground Grammarian and 4 books by Richard Mitchell, and The War Against Grammar, by David Mulroy.
lol
"outcome-based moral relativism"
I'm glad I grew up before all this FREE S, got a strangled hold in the medical world.
Dumbing people down, stops the critical thinking process. You no longer question. Slave owners rarely educated slaves to keep them ignorant. We see the effect today in the difference of cities like Memphis who hand out grades, vs the county who must earn the grades. This has been going on there for the 50 years I lived within the county, and now the next county, who require students to learn.
My 8th grade educated parents drove that message home when I was a teen. My grandma never went to school or learned to drive, she was a child of the generation that thought only males needed educating. Yet she worked, raised 8, through the Great Depression. Grandpa was a decade older. Made sure his children went to school. The Appalachians is a whole other world. Until government programs were brought in.
Look what the 'White man' did to our Indigenous Natives. Stole their lands, killed many, Res life was and still is bad.
In 1819, King Kamehameha brought all neighbor islands together to form The Hawaiian Kingdom. His son, in 1840, provided compulsory education to all youth, becoming the 5th country in the world to do so, 77 years before the United States. Subjects taught: Algebra, geometry, calculus, trig, English grammar, geography, Hawaiian & world history, political economy and science. Students travelled abroad to learn medicine, foreign languages, engineering, engraving, sculpture, music, and military science.
As a matter of fact, Dr Sun-Yat-sen, got his secondary education from the Iolani college between 1879-1883 and said he learned what modern, civilized governance was from the Hawaiian Kingdom. Little did he know that he would be taken down by another so-called civilized country some decades later. The Kingdom was populated by Aboriginals, Germans, Americans, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Norwegians where racism, under no conditions, existed in the Kingdom, and free heath care for all prevailed.
I don't know what or if the Catholic church had to do with copying the exact same curriculum as Hawaiians were taught, 115 years later when I got to school, but it looks identical to me. It is truly unfathomable to me that school kids today have no clue how to write, diagram a sentence, ergo, no punctuation, know nothing of history of their own country, let alone world history, no vocabulary skills, times tables what's that?, can't do arithmetic in their heads.
It is plain as the nose on your face that education has been destroyed and only after the Boomers are gone will things settle down as our educational history is erased to make our current crop of students take over as the norm. What a shame. To end this missive.........
Grover Cleveland, in 1893 stole, from Queen Lili'uokalani, The Hawaiian Kingdom with their Constitutional Monarchy in tact, recognized unconditionally by all substantive powers in the world as a sovereign and neutral independent state. Not to be confused with Ukraine, which is NOT a sovereign state. You'd have to know history to know that.
And thus the Kingdom of Hawaii was stolen from the Hawaiians by the newly formed Public Health Committee.
Which was usurped by JD Rockefeller to the travesty we have today. Dag, what a world we live in viewing history in context.
Dear Unbekoming
Excellent. I will publish on Monday.
Mark
Stay in a cheap hotel for a while next door to a school in Thailand (which will be a multi story concrete building with open windows and about 2000 students of mixed ages inside). The education consists of the Thai teacher saying a sentence and about 200 classroom kids repeating it back as loudly as they can. That goes on for the entire day:).
Tim--
I mention Conceptual Frameworks in my comment and covered the Reading Wars and how there was never a genuine dispute on how to teach reading. There was a recognition that a Fluent Phonetic Reader would not be using the desired Conceptual Frameworks that have been incorporated into each state's competency frameworks. It was the real purpose of the Common Core.
I wrote the 2013 book Credentialed to Destroy: How and Why Education Became a Weapon. I also knew Charlotte Iserbyt and talked to her in person about Outcomes Based Education which I had covered in depth in my book. Today's Learner Profiles and Portrait of a Graduate are simply a renamed and sanitized term masking the continued aims of what was termed Transformational Outcomes Based Education. And yes, it's function is to destroy free will without that being apparent to the person whose decision making is guided from having their conceptual framework, perceptions, attitudes, and beliefs all usefully manipulated by the ed system-preschool to higher ed.
To your second point, remember that Ideas create Consciousness and if you redefine concepts from their historic meaning without disclosure and make those Categories of Thought what guides perception and how experiences get interpreted you are effectively guiding and motivating action that aims to go in a direction the student doesn't appreciate.
RE: traditional academic learning
What I didn't see mentioned was anything about how "public education" started in the first place. Compulsory public education started in the 1870's. Before that it was it was some form of private education, mainly among the rich. From its very beginning it was a top-down enterprise. The Robber Barons needed workers who could read and calculate. America's industrial expansion required it. Public education has always served the interests of the ruling elites. The "dumbing down" of public education serves the interests of elites as well as will any changes to public education in the future.
And then we have Enslavement by convenience and laziness: "Alexa; What is the circumference of the Earth?"
Alexa answers: "It is whatever my programmers say it is"!
Putting philosophy aside for a moment, dumbing down the people is the job of education and food industry. Which, of course, doesn't preclude vaccines and media leftardation.
thank you
Thank you so much!
I grew up in Camden Maine and lived there when Charlotte was on the school board. She seemed like a squeaky wheel and now looms as a profit. Fantastic. How things change including me!