Education & the Lack Thereof
In the United States, we have the worst educational systems in the
world. They used to be okay, but
compared to the Education that Europeans get, we are not even getting
close.
In Early America, the colonists had college level educations by
the time we would be heading into
High School. Why do you think that is? How could it be, that the
Founding Fathers were in their Twenties and early thirties, when they
Drafted the Declaration of Independance, on their own!!!
Could anyone in this country do that today? I seriously doubt it. One
must have a basic and fundamental
understanding of "Government", & "Economics" on a world-wide level to
be able to Draft such a
document. Do you think anyone in the U.S today would be capable? I
doubt it!!!
I first started to learn about the differences of American
education with European education when I read Antony Sutton's book
"America's Secret Establishment - An Introduction to the Order of
Skull &
Bones". This book has always been one of my favorites, since it is so
revealing, and was not put out by
the "Establishment". Sutton reveals to the reader, what is known as
the "Look-Say" reading method,
wherein, a student is taught to associate a "picture" with a "word".
This would mean that a teacher
would show a student a picture of a "Dog" and then tell him / her that
that is a "Dog". Good enough??
Maybe, if you are trying to teach "Deaf and Dumb" people. You see,
that is what "Look-Say" was
originally developed for. It was to teach "Deaf and Dumb" people how
to read and write. It was not
developed for "Normal" people.
"Normal" people throughout Europe were educated by learning the
"Root-Meaning" of the "Word".
So if a teacher was showing you a picture of a "dog", you would also
learn where the meaning of the word "Dog" comes from. Where the word
"Canine" comes from. And that "word" comes from another word and so
on.
(From Secret Establishment Pg.71-72)
Look-Say reading methods were developed around 1810 for Deaf Mutes
by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. Thomas H Gallaudet was the eldest son of
Peter Wallace Gallaudet, a descendant from a
French Huguenot family, and Jane Hopkins. Jane Hopkins traced her
ancestry back to John Hopkins
and the Reverend Thomas Hooker in the Seventeenth century, who broke
away from the congregational church to help found Hartford
Connecticut. This parallels the story of the Lord family. The Lords
also
traced their ancestry back to Hopkins and Hooker and the Lords founded
Hartford Connecticut. And
it was in Hartford, Connecticut in 1835 that a printer named Lord
produced Thomas Gallaudet's first
Look-Say Primer, "Mother's Primer".
Gallaudet's original intention was to use the Look-say method only
for Deaf Mutes who have no
concept of a spoken language and are therefore unaware of phonetic
sounds for letters. For this purpose,
Gallaudet founded the "Hartford School for the Deaf" in 1817. The
Gallaudet system works well for
Deaf Mutes, but thewre is no obvious reason to use it for those who
have the ability to hear sounds.
Anyway, in 1835 Mother's Primer was published and the
Massachusetts Primary School Committee
under Horace Mann immediately adopted the book on an experimental
basis. Later we shall find that
Horace Mann ties directly to the Order - in fact, the Co-founder of
the Order. On pages 73 and 74 we
reproduce two pages from the second edition of 1836, with the
following directions to the teacher :
"...pointing to the whole word Frank, but not to the letters.
Nothing is yet to be said about letters..."
Why did Horace Mann push a methos designed for deaf mutes onto a
school system populated with persons who were not deaf mutes?
There are two possible reasons. The reader can take his or her
pick.
First, in 1853 Mann was appointed President of Antioch College.
The most influential Trustee of Antioch College was the Co-founder of
the Order (Skull & Bones) - Alphonso Taft.
Second, Mann never had a proper education and consequently was
unable to judge a good method from a bad method for reading.
By 1840, there was a backlash, and the Look-say system was dropped
in Massachusetts.
But,
Toward the end of the 19th century The Order came on the scene -
and the Look-say method was revived. The youngest son of Thomas
Hopkins and Sophia Galludet was Edward Minor Gallaudet. Two of his
sons went to Yale and became members of the Order :
1. Edson Fessenden Gallaudet (1893 Initiated), who became an
instructor of Physics at Yale, and
2. Herbert Draper Gallaudet (1898 Initiated), who attended Union
Theological Seminary and became a clergyman.
Then the method was adopted by Columbia Teachers College and the
Lincoln School. The thrust of the new Dewey-inspired system of
education was away from learning and towards preparing a child to be a
unit in the organic society. Look-say was ideal for Deweyits. It
skipped one step in the learning process. It looked "easy", and
de-emphasized learning skills.
The educational establishment rationalized look-say by claiming
that up to the turn of the century reading was taught by "synthetic"
methods, i.e. children were taught letters and an associated sound
value. Then they learned to join syllables to make words. This was
held to be uninteresting and artificial. Educational research, it was
claimed, demonstrated that in reading words are not analyzed into
component letter parts, but seen as complete units. Therefore,
learning to read should start with complete units.
(Finish of Quotes from book)
Well, there is alot more to this than just the transference of the
look-say method onto our current reading and learning structure. There
is also the Experiential Pyschology brought over from Germany, under
Hegelian Principles. This, I will get into at a later time)
The newest "Craze" among the Education proponents today is "Outcome
Based Education" or OBE
Here are some relevant articles :
Outcome-Based Education": Spiritual Child Abuse as Reform, by Susan
Welsh - Click Here!!
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Books
* EDUCATING FOR THE NEW WORLD ORDER - B. K. Eakman - 1991 -
THE LEIPZIG CONNECTION : A Report On The Origin And Growth Of
Educational Psychology - Lance J. Klass in
collaboration with Paolo Lionni - 1993
THE LIES AND FALLACIES OF THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA : How Powerful
and Shameless Clerical
Forces Castrated A Famous Book Of Reference - Joseph McCabe - 46
P. - 1988 -
* OUTCOME - BASED EDUCATION : The State’s Assault On Our Children’s
Values - Luksik and Hoffecker - 1996 -
207 P. -
* ANYONE CAN HOMESCHOOL : How To Find What Works For You - Terry
Dorian , Ph.D and Zan P. Tyler -
1996 - 220 P. -
* BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS : Guiding Your Child Through the Dangers of the
Changing School System - Berit Kjos -
1996 -
* DUMBING US DOWN : The hidden curriculum of Compulsory Schooling -
John Gatto - 1991 - 104 P. -
Videos
ARE YOUR KIDS PROPERTY OF THE STATE ? - Education Expose -
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