tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5967614.post1598774161592681658..comments2023-10-06T01:59:39.666-06:00Comments on The Third Avenue: voucher dishonesty goes nationalAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838181044501638999noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5967614.post-362246071257910632007-11-03T22:49:00.000-06:002007-11-03T22:49:00.000-06:002+2=5?Or, The Intellectual Dishonesty And Irration...2+2=5?<BR/><BR/>Or, The Intellectual Dishonesty And Irrationality Of Voucher Opponents <BR/><BR/>First of all, parents have the primary responsibility for their children's education and it should be their choice where they spend their money to educate their children.<BR/><BR/>The compulsory public school system is a failed experiment of the progressive era of American history and it must be relegated to the trash bin of history. If public education continued on the path of the vision of founders like Horace Mann, then it may have provided an effective means of cost-effective and mass-education for the public. However, the driving vision of the modern American public education system has been the NEA's patron "anti-saint", John Dewey. Further, I am tired of the post-modern American attitude of entitlement infecting our thinking about government revenue and expenditure: We shouldn't have to beg to receive our money back from what is a supposedly voluntary contribution to the government when a failing assessment is made about government schools.<BR/><BR/>Children are spending an increasing amount of their day away from home and at school, but educational standards and exam results are in decline. Schools have become indoctrination camps for the forces of multiculturalism, diversity, and tolerance. However, we have been promised diversity and received perversity. Interestingly, this was the perverse vision of John Dewey.<BR/><BR/>Boston University Professor M. D. Aeschliman wrote in Permanent Revolution, "As Diane Ravitch and E. D. Hirsch have noted, the 80-year dominance of Dewey's "Progressive" ideas -- almost indelibly institutionalized in the world of teachers' colleges, teachers' unions, and certification procedures -- has been a gross failure in terms of the educational levels and competences of our public-school graduates. "Standards-based" education reforms at the state level and the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, whatever their defects or difficulties, are well-warranted responses by parents, citizens, and legislators to generations of scholastic decline that have left many of our children and young adults not only functionally incompetent and quasi-illiterate but also vulnerable to an unprecedented tide of polluted cultural effluvia. The "child-centered school" has helped give birth to an infantile culture -- one that threatens the very capacity of the American republic to retain and convey its economic accomplishments, social decencies, and civic self-understanding."<BR/><BR/>Read about the destructive legacy of John Dewey, state schools, and the so-called Progressive Era of American politics in this book: John Dewey & the Decline of American Education: How the Patron Saint of Schools Has Corrupted Teaching and Learning, by Henry T. Edmondson III (ISI, 147 pp., $15)<BR/><BR/>http://community.myfoxutah.com/blogs/AnselmB. Disraelihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07936220563386492574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5967614.post-47207021418825157102007-11-02T12:10:00.001-06:002007-11-02T12:10:00.001-06:00Great Post!Great Post!Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15268367840057258095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5967614.post-25915616994006662782007-11-01T13:25:00.000-06:002007-11-01T13:25:00.000-06:00excellent work 3rd Ave!excellent work 3rd Ave!Jennifer Killpack-Knutsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10026376191414358032noreply@blogger.com