tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post2815687107292399082..comments2023-10-27T03:41:13.171-07:00Comments on Warning Signs: Betraying Our HistoryAlan Carubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-24176526276048890932011-06-08T15:14:19.478-07:002011-06-08T15:14:19.478-07:00@ Conway, you forgot Arbeit Macht Frei (Work Makes...@ Conway, you forgot Arbeit Macht Frei (Work Makes You Free). Get a "good" education, a "good" job, and be a "good" cog in the machine. No thinking required, or indeed permitted.<br /><br />@Carolyn, I homeschool as well. I can only hope that my children will be able to educate their peers over time, and that the movement will continue to grow. The older my kids get, the more gratitude they express that they don't go to prison (uh, I mean, school) all day and then have to bring their work home as well.Donna Harrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01757829143764382949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-86357537477811830322011-06-07T11:27:40.840-07:002011-06-07T11:27:40.840-07:00Unfortunately it is deliberate but done so with co...Unfortunately it is deliberate but done so with consumate skill. Trying to prove it leaves you wide open to being labelled a reactionary who has taken leave of their senses.<br /><br />There is a twofold aspect to this. The first is the underlying need to detach the population from its identity and its sense of where it comes from as a nation. Once you do that you can then start to rewrite an alternate. in the 'preferred' image. Your history is a key source of your identity and your values.<br /><br />The second aspect is the youth. I forget who it was that said it but someone is once quoted as saying "give me the boy and I'll give you the man". The essence being that influencing how a child thinks is a massive determinant of how the resulting adult will think.<br /><br />It will not take too long before you have more than one generation detached from its ability to recall history.Andrew Leatherlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09542102929858672172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-80309249742429118842011-06-06T12:35:14.232-07:002011-06-06T12:35:14.232-07:00IMVHO:
"Conway" rants, but has it broadl...IMVHO:<br />"Conway" rants, but has it broadly right. FWIW, I agree totally with the last sentences of each of "Rich Kozlovitch" and "Desertrat" (7th. Armoured?).Ir'Rationalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09576329973624463791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-44310304476626260822011-06-06T05:31:37.590-07:002011-06-06T05:31:37.590-07:00Just to throw some ideas out: While the decline h...Just to throw some ideas out: While the decline has been brought about in deliberate fashion, I don't believe the actual goal is dumbing down as such. I see it as a by-product of such things as wanting to "give" self-esteem by reducing challenges. And, to cite the recent very-non-PC column by "Fred On Everything", a feminization of school behavior. (One example is the furor over boys using a forefinger as a pistol, or drawing a picture of a firearm.) There's more to it, of course, but I don't want to write a book...<br /><br />However, the decline will continue so long as there is the U.S.Dept/Ed and the NEA.Desertrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09860257698839313423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-1600674171262190872011-06-06T04:18:36.940-07:002011-06-06T04:18:36.940-07:00Alan,
As my kids went through school I was always...Alan,<br /><br />As my kids went through school I was always amazed at what they weren't taught. If this is any consolation, in England a few years ago they released the outcome of one of these surveys and found that (I am not sure of this number, but this is pretty close) around 40% thought Winston Churchill was an astronaut. <br /><br />I have the answer to all of this though. Raise teacher salaries, expand benefits and reduce class size. Oh wait! Those kids who did actually get an education that informed them of all of this stuff had really large class rooms, low paid teachers with minimal benefits. <br /><br />Ummmmm…. Maybe we need to start cutting wages, benefits and expanding the classroom sized once again. That will force a lot of issues to the fore front requiring real change in what is taught, who does the teaching and how much these kids will be allowed to get away with in the schools, which is the one legitimate claim by the teachers. The kids are out of control and their parents are responsible. Of course much of this came about because of those leftists who set policy in schools and are allies of the teachers unions. It is a real snake pit. <br /><br />Until society returns to traditional values none of this is fixable.Rich Kozlovichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13745960671409518147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-68049406889751709632011-06-06T02:02:26.654-07:002011-06-06T02:02:26.654-07:00I wager the "dumbing down" of the popula...I wager the "dumbing down" of the populace is a deliberate action by those in power to keep the people completely uninformed when it comes to things that matter. They studied Dr. P. J. Goebbels, and read George Orwell, AKA Eric Arthur Blair. <br /><br />Drawing on Dr. Goebbels' example, they have replaced true knowledge with the mindless drivel of "entertainment" i.e., radio, television and the movies, along with sports, computer games and celebrity worship.<br /><br />They now literally promote:<br /><br />War is Peace<br /><br />Freedom is Slavery<br /><br />and <br /><br />Ignorance is Strength.<br /><br />All cunningly disguised with a yellow "smiley face" of course. The young ones have bought it hook, line and sinker, parroting it back to me as if it were gospel.<br /><br />Unlike your eloquent prose, on my blog I denounce all of this debacle using foul language, bitter invective, and epithets directed at every form of man, comparing all of them to apes in the end.<br /><br />I swear to Christ, if I had any tears left, I would cry, and then probably apologize to the apes for daring to compare man to them.Conwayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11066767342077807833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-42645083306612762402011-06-06T01:47:26.591-07:002011-06-06T01:47:26.591-07:00We have the same problem - well identified by Caro...We have the same problem - well identified by Carolyn - in England. A very high percentage do not know who Winston Churchill was, yet they all know all about Mary Seacole <i>(q.v.)</i>(they also don't know about Florence Nightingale - but I would guess most Americans don't,either!).<br />I guess most of your samples would know about Rosa Parks and MLK (don't get me wrong - fine people both - but priorities?)Ir'Rationalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09576329973624463791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-10414075505621248342011-06-05T17:02:07.570-07:002011-06-05T17:02:07.570-07:00Good for you, Carolyn! Your kids are the lucky one...Good for you, Carolyn! Your kids are the lucky ones!Alan Carubahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-86782177207963520212011-06-05T16:49:51.127-07:002011-06-05T16:49:51.127-07:00All that stuff the kids didn't know, that'...All that stuff the kids didn't know, that's what made Jay Leno's *Jay Walking* segment so popular... <br /><br />People watched it, pointed and laughed, called the people 'stupid', and worse, but I have to wonder, how many questions did THEY get correct??TexasFredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06412925337032937983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-6614926979495602252011-06-05T16:31:19.585-07:002011-06-05T16:31:19.585-07:00I'd say it is deliberate as progressives have ...I'd say it is deliberate as progressives have been ruling over the dept. of education and the NEA has had massive influence on what is taught in public schools. It's sad to see such an ignorant few generations- which is why come every election year, you ask young people who are able to finally vote who they are voting for. They usually will say the person whom their teachers told them about even though they don't even half the time know who the opponant is, or what each one stands for!<br />I am grateful that I am homeschooling, and that the homeschool movement is growing quickly, but it still can't compair to those who are indoctrinated in government schools. God Bless you Mr. Caruba!Carolynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06778221847847541523noreply@blogger.com