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That is the purpose of education. Charlotte Iserbyt asks, somewhere around 6:20, “you thought it was readin’, writin’ and ‘rithmetic??”
You can download the full e-book here. And you can also read her summaries on how and why she became a whistleblower, and some of the things she’s seen personally:
There are many talented and respected researchers and activists who have carefully documented the “weird” activities which have taken place “in the name of education.” Any opposition to change agent activities in local schools has invariably been met with cries of “Prove your case, document your statements,” etc. “Resisters”-usually parents-have been called every name in the book. Parents have been told for over thirty years, “You’re the only parent who has ever complained.” The media has been convinced to join in the attack upon common sense views, effectively discrediting the perspective of well-informed citizens. Documentation, when presented, has been ignored and called incomplete. The classic response by the education establishment has been, “You’re taking that out of context!”-even when presented with an entire book which uses their own words to detail exactly what the “resisters” are claiming to be true.
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This is a direct application of the lessons in Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”. The training she talks about is just a specialized version. Once you’ve read it, you see what’s going on.
- philmon | 02/20/2010 @ 10:16Yeah, and here I thought the purpose of teachers was to impart knowledge. You know – what a verb is, who won the Civil War and why, how to do algebra, that sort of thing.
These days, it seems we can’t even get them to teach third-graders how to read.
- cylarz | 02/22/2010 @ 00:00That’s a great description of what education is supposed to be, cylarz… I like it.
[progressive logic]
And really, didn’t you know that the North won the Civil War because Bush wanted to release the slaves into a larger society where they could be discriminated against by more people all over the country? Yeah, it was a big plot.
Rove and Cheney thought that the illusion of freedom would only make it more painful for them, and you know what sadists they are. Plus, they needed the extra labor to build up the industrial-military complex so that we could to steal everybody’s oil — especially if their skin wasn’t lily white, and take their women for concubines.
Lincoln? Who is that?
It’s all about Halliburton, don’tchaknow.
- philmon | 02/22/2010 @ 08:09[/progressive logic]