America Disappearing Down Memory Hole of PC Educators

INSIGHT magazine ^ | June 3, 2002 | Don Feder

[BibChr]

What reason # would this be, Dan?

#4380

LOL

Dan

[Freedom4US]

The writing has been on the wall for those who care to look.

Here's an excerpt from Richard Halliburton's "Seven League Boots" a 1935 book from the famous explorer where he visits Soviet Russia and has the party's aims explained:

"The family must go next. Family unity is a capitalistic and bourgeois custom dangerous to Communism. Our children must be taught to spy on their parents and testify against them. Our men and women must be able to love who they please; to marry and divorce on impulse. Our state will care for their unwanted offspring, and do it better than the parents."

frankly, this is almost a carbon copy of extreme leftist thought here today, no question about it.

"Money," they said, "is the source of all evil. Money was the support of the gentry and intelligentsia. We must destroy all private wealth, all private property, and all means of accumulating it, lest these old classes come back."

Quenching free enterprise has come a long way here, though through sheer incompetence or design I cannot say. I tend towards the former usually, but in my more uncharitable moments, the latter.

"We must use every means in our power to protect our new theories and our new liberated masses from foreign capitalistic influences. No information, no counter-revolutionary englightenment must come in from the world outside. No newspapers or magazines that might reveal the false happiness and prosperity of other people living under the enemy's system will be tolerated. The movies, the theater, the radio, must be rigorously censored and adjusted. Nothing must emerge that does not glorify the working man and damn the other classes."

Interestingly, the internet has provided a secure means to disseminate information outside the "approved" channels and is probably a good part of the reason that conservative thought is making some good steam after years of neglect.

[skeeter]

This epidemic of ignorance is due in part to a crowding-out effect. Schools are so busy telling everyone else's story that there's no time for our own. At its 2001 convention, the National Education Association passed resolutions supporting multicultural education and global education. Absent was any suggestion that students should receive an American education.

The more multicultural America becomes, the less relevent the history of America's first 200 years, it's formative, defining era, will be.

What America will become after that is anyone's guess.

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

Somewhere in the great hereafter, the soldiers of the Continental Army who froze to death in the snows of Valley Forge and the GIs who died in the steaming jungles of Bataan must be weeping.

There's another way these soldiers could look at it: We fought to save a country that would prove so strong that it could survive even though half its citizens were as dumb as rocks. That's quite an achievement.

[George Frm Br00klyn Park]

Guys, Toenail has made an EXCELLENT find at Post #39! Note that when the push began in the mid '80s {1985}, and through the first Bush Administration, that "conservatives" William Bennett and Llamar Alexander were secretaries of education. And, the second Bush administration is continueing the evil with it's "no child left behind" attrocity. And, the silence of the media of the masses IS DEAFENING!!! Peace and love, George.

[George Frm Br00klyn Park]

SWL, You should take a look at POST #39. BTW, THANKS FOR THIS POST!!! Peace and love, George.

[toenail]

I didn't make any find. It's right there, out in the open.

[toenail]

P.S. Those who believe in the myth of a pro-life Bush will never fail to bring up his call to extend childcare to prenatal care. That's just big government nannyism explicitly called for by the STW crowd. What a sham.

"The design problem here is to improve the planning, financing and delivery of health and human services so they will more effectively support student learning. Specifically, we aim to produce a design that will assure that all children will enter school ready to learn and that none will fail to learn because of health, family or other problems that effective human services could have prevented. This means assuring the availability of integrated, comprehensive services, beginning with prenatal care, and including continuing health care, family support services, child care and preschool education. It will also mean assuring that teachers will be able to mobilize services and supports for the child and family when they spot a child who needs help. And it means that the supports--before and after school care, safe recreational opportunities and strong links between school and home--are in place."

Proposal for Restructuring Education for the State of Washington, National Council on Education and the Economy

[Ohioan]

the National Education Association passed resolutions supporting multicultural education and global education. Absent was any suggestion that students should receive an American education.

And obviously absent is any suggestion that the NEA is entitled to be called an American organization. Their influence needs to be removed from local public school administrations. If it cannot be removed, citizens should respond by not funding public education. Anything is better than inflicting their sick agenda on America's youth.

For those interested in better understanding where these anti-American educators are coming from, see Myths & Myth Makers In American "Higher" Education. Their resolutions and general antics are no accident. They are part of a two generation long assault on our normal patterns of identification and allegiance.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

[VOA]

...the main points of the Revolutionary War and general U.S. History?

Even if you find a good video series, I suggest you check into the audio tapes done by
radio talkshow host Michael Medved.
He has some REALLY good audio tapes on The Revolutionary War that I suspect will be appreciated
by young students (and adults as well).

If Medved is on in your area, he SOMETIMES plays one of these tapes to fill in during
a holiday like Thanksgiving.
You can check out the selection of tapes at his website www.michaelmedved.com (I think marketing is
actually done via another entity).

I haven't bought any tapes myself, but if I had a child I'd probably be buying them.

I don't know where you fit on the religional scale, but his "God's Hand On America" is
a masterful telling of the "how could this have happened?" aspects of
the founding of the country.

[VOA]

I forgot that (suprisingly) the PBS Series "American Experience" actually has some pretty
decent American History episodes available on videotape.

I purchased the Ronald Reagan tape/box set for my brother...it was an amazingly balanced
portrait of Reagan, the human flaws, but delved into his psychology of how he went
from liberal Democrat, union president (the Screen Actors Guild) to conservative
Republican who shut down the Evil Empire.

Their recent four hour special on U.S. Grant was also really good.

Check out the series at www.pbs.org.

I suspect that this series may have been influenced by VP Cheney's wife as she was
at the National Endowment for the Humanities (IIRC) and they are often mentioned as partial
funders of American Experience espisodes.

[goldstategop]

Without a common history this country will not survive for very long. We're raising a generation that has no idea how America was born, what its common ideals were, and the events that shaped it as a nation for two and half centuries. Needless to say Don Feder's right about one thing: the PC educators have done a remarkable job of deconstructing America. After all, the guiding motto in our education these days seems to be never to offend any one. So you can see why our elite prefers our children to be any one but Americans if they can help it. Our country is slowly being erased out of existence in front of the chalk boards and in the textbooks and its not a pretty sight. America? Why I never heard of it.

[Freedom4US]

I remember standing tall during a barracks inspection during Basic Training. Part of the routine is learning the "chain of command" i.e. the immediate leaders names from squad leader all the way up to secretary of defense, joint chiefs and of course the President.

We had one poor guy from Chicago who wasn't doing too hot on any of his leaders up and down the chain. Finally, in exasperation, the Colonel asked him "Who's the Vice President of the United States??" Him -- 'Uh... Bush? (He was currently the President)

I'm sure he had a good working knowledge on "Lifelong Learning" and other feel good fluff and nonsense essential to a dumbed down, helmet wearing four cylinder driving limp wristed society.

[Hugin]

Please tell me you took those kids out of those schools or if that isn't possible that you took it upon yourselves to at least teach to the gaps of their education.

My kids are both grown now. They did get around to American History in 5th grade, but yes, as an avid history buff I spent a lot of time teaching my kids about American History and and the benefits of capitalism, something the socialists who run the schools couldn't teach even if they wanted to, having never participated in it.

[WRhine]

Ignorance of our past has been carefully cultivated by the educational establishment and the result is a cut-flower generation, severed from its roots.

That is an excellent analogy of the kids coming out of our dumbed down, Marxist indoctrinating schools.

[ReveBM]

James Burns's "Liberty" series is okay and tastefully done. It's available on Amazon. Other series of his I have:
Thomas Jefferson
Lewis & Clark - this one was very moving to me
The Civil War (9 tapes!)
The West (as in the settling of the West) (9 tapes!)

Sometimes he appears to have a liberal bias but on the whole he seems okay to me.

Other additional tapes I have
Theodore Roosevelt, by A&E Network
The World At War, 9 tapes on WWII
The Century, on the 20th Century

The Century might have liberal bias but I'm sure a Freeper can handle re-education their kids about that subject.

[toenail]

BTW, I wish those taxaholic jerks would ramp up getting the rest of the Congressional Record online. It's only available online back to '95 now. I don't even care about text conversion; just scan 'em in, and make the images available.

[Stand Watch Listen]

Thanks for the heads-up....appreciate it.

[Artist]

Bookmarked. Thanks!

[homeschool mama]

**When my son was in forth grade I was shocked to find out that he was learing Asian and African history for the third time and had never had American history. Now nothing the schools do shocks me, as I believe they dumb down kids intentionally. **

I trust you're teaching your son at home now...?