Posted on 09/07/2009 9:28:41 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
This part of the speech would be of interest to homeschoolers:
“Maybe you could be a good writer – maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper – but you might not know it until you write a paper for your English class. Maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor – maybe even good enough to come up with the next iPhone or a new medicine or vaccine – but you might not know it until you do a project for your science class. Maybe you could be a mayor or a Senator or a Supreme Court Justice, but you might not know that until you join student government or the debate team.
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You’ll need the knowledge and problem-solving skills you learn in science and math to cure diseases like cancer and AIDS, and to develop new energy technologies and protect our environment. You’ll need the insights and critical thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free. You’ll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new companies that will create new jobs and boost our economy.”
Note that his concept of education is completely limited to formal classroom experience, and that the goal of education, of course, is to pursue a leftist agenda: cure AIDS, “develop new energy technologies and protect our environment,” and of course “fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination.”
You don't know my kids. THEY are the wolves. My son wants to be the next Mark Levin. He is already writing about tax cuts and liberals at age 8, and reading Liberty and Tyranny.
My nine year old is the same. She listens to Rush and puts Levin on a timer to go to sleep by. And?
It doesn’t help when a child is targeted by a teacher and/or administrator.
I pinged the homeschool list to a thread that contains the whole text of his speech.
Interesting thing is, all the things that he’s proposing that kids need to succeed in the world, critical thinking and problem solving skills, are exactly what kids DON’T learn in public schools. You don’t learn them in an environment where conformity is the rule and individuality and creative thinking are frowned upon.
Gatto had it right in his *The 7-Lesson Schoolteacher*.
Yeah, that’s a good point. It’s significant, I think, that even he admits that extracurricular activities (science fair, debate team, etc) are much more likely to prompt critical thinking and individual effort than the actual classes. And yet we’re supposed to keep paying taxes so 99 kids can be stupified/indoctrinated and 1 has a chance to go on to something greater?
course the state run media tried to make excuses up again for him
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