Posted on 08/08/2020 10:20:25 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Friday on Fox News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle,” former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich discussed the push made by the progressive left in America to undermine the traditional education system.
Host Laura Ingraham mentioned an effort to eliminate grammar and history because of racism concerns. Gingrich called that a product of the “dumbing down” of the country through three generations of indoctrination and groupthink in America’s education system.
“I think what you’re seeing is the dumbing down of America for three generations, you’re seeing left-wing indoctrination and literally groupthink,” he said. “I do a podcast, and I talk about shut your mouth. There’s an entire series on where the left has told us, say what they want or else. I really think the time has come to take back the schools and to take back the universities. And I think that a lot of governors, frankly, aren’t doing their job when they allow public universities to be run by people who are radically anti-American.”
“So, this is a very dangerous moment in our history,” Gingrich continued. “We are not going to compete with China if we insist on having schools where the unions won’t teach and what they teach isn’t true. And for example, in Baltimore, their entire buildings were not a single student could pass the state exam.”
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Education has been circling the drain since it was unionized about 50 years ago.
He’s absolutely correct.
So...what are we going to do about it...besides nothing?
Where’s Betsy DeVos??
Very hard to come back from this.
But drastic changes in media and education are a Must. No half-measures. At this point it’s hard to make it worse. I would support some very broad steps.
More free speech
Run the damn leftists over
If you like them. Just ask tough questions
This can’t be laid solely at the feet of the teachers’ unions. It begins on the home front and what is and isn’t allowed to happen there. No moral fiber, no pride, no patriotism, etc.
The most unfortunate part of this is many, many, many of these stupid and ignorant kids have stupid and ignorant parents. Their vote counts as much as yours.
I’ve been in higher ed for about 25 years and I’ve noticed a progressive decline in critical thinking ability over especially the last ten years. I’ve also noticed a parallel increase in hubris.
if more parents would send their kids to good private or parochial schools with a defined curriculum or home school, we could change this country...
in reguards to media, why hasn’t some of our million/billion dollar conservatives bought out more radio/tv/printed media?....what is keeping Rush from buying up more media?..or Hannity?...or a combination of all these guys....
Not only dumming done but downright false teaching. I have fought this for over 45 years now and it ain’t going away.
Not only education -huge as that is- it is mass rejection of Gods truth. Being away from holiness makes people stupid This is part of st Thomas’s Summ theologica
Yep, they talk out of both sides of the mouth.
It started seriously with John Dewey a century ago. He is the hero of the NEA and “educators,” generally.
Richard Mitchell predicted all this in his book,”The Graves of Academe” in 1981.Back then the teaching profession was supplied by the lowest qualified (Sat) college students. Hasn’t changed in 40 years.
The unions stifle innovation as they do whereever they dominate. The Feseral Government has little to do with K-12 education. It’s a local issue. With the dawning of the information age, we should be way ahead of where we are, and the upper tier of students are in my opinion, more advanced than those of 40 years ago. But the majority or average in poorly prepared.
The huge influx of hispanics has not helped the average intelligence either, so the raw material is worse and speaks a different language.
yup
dewey was the assh0le that developed the system and spread across the cpuntry from new england...
Wisconsin has gawd-awful schools, now. Our kids are in some of the lowest percentiles in Math, Reading, Etc.
Guess who our Governor is now? Yep. Tony ‘One And Done’ Evers, (D, WI) who WAS the head of our Department of Education!
It’s INSANITY!
The work of the Socialist Democrats is nearly complete.
*SPIT*
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