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The Purpose of Education
The
Purpose of Education by Stanley Jebb
"What is education
for? Surely it is to prepare children for life..."
Education vs. Training
by Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld
"Education, ... is concerned with the development of the mind, of the
intellect, ... its main purpose is the enhancement of an individual's
ability to use his mind for his own personal pleasure or gain..."
The
Religious Nature of Education
by David Sant
"Most [people] think of education as a value-neutral arena in which
children are taught the knowledge and skills they need to function as
adults in society. [But] we must realize that education is
inherently religious. What is education, if not teaching children
about the way the world works?..."
Do
State/Public Schools Educate?
The Exhausted School
by John Taylor Gatto
"Keep in mind as I speak that I spent 26 years in public [state]
school classrooms. My perspective is that of an insider, not an
outsider..."
The Problem of Schooling
by John Taylor Gatto
"Experts have consistently misdiagnosed and misdefined the
problem of schooling..."
Public [State] Education The Point of No Return:
Are We There? by Dr. Samuel
L. Blumenfeld
"In April 1983 the National Commission on Excellence in Education issued
its now historic report, A Nation at Risk, in which it said: 'The
educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a
rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and
as a people.' Then it added a comment which must have raised a lot of
eyebrows:..."
The Charade of Education Reform
by Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld
"When we saw President George Bush and Sen. Ted Kennedy on
television billing and cooing over the new education bill, fittingly
called 'No Child Left behind', we knew that the reform is as phony as
all the previous reforms that were supposed to leave no child behind..."
Goals 2000: Another Fed Fiasco
by Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld
"Back in February 1990, when President Bush proposed his Goals 2000
initiative in his State of the Union address, I expressed my usual
skepticism over any government program that promises to 'solve' our
education problem with catchy slogans..."
The Psychopathic School: The Failure of Modern
Education by John Taylor
Gatto
"We live in a time of great school crisis linked to an even
greater social crisis. ... We seem to have lost our identity. Children
and old people are penned up and locked away from the business of the
world to a degree without precedent; ... and without children and old
people mixing in daily life a community has no future and no past, only
a continuous present. ... School is a major actor in this tragedy..."
Confederacy of Dunces: The Tyranny of Compulsory
Schooling by John Taylor
Gatto
"Old-fashioned dumbness used to be simple ignorance: you didn't
know know something, but there were ways to find out if you wanted to.
... Now dumb people aren't just ignorant; they're the victims of the
non-though of second-hand ideas..."
Mudshill Theory, the Lancaster Amish, and Jaime
Escalante by John Taylor
Gatto
"The current system of government factory schooling is based on a
belief that ordinary children cannot accomplish much, will not work hard
unless coerced, tricked, or bribed, and will inevitably work for the
balance of their post-school lives - if they work at all - in large
government, corporate, or institutional employment pyramids managed by a
professional elite..."
The
Deliberate Dumbing Down of America
by Charlotte Thomson
Iserbyt
"In 1971 when I returned to the United States after living in the
West Indies for three years, I was shocked to find public education had
become a warm, fuzzy, soft, mushy, touchy-feely experience, where its
purpose had become socialization, not learning..."
When Teachers Become Psychotherapists
by Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld
"Most parents of public school children are unaware that teachers
... are now practicing psychotherapy in the classroom without a license.
Not only do they not have a license, but they haven't even had adequate
training. In fact, many teachers don't even know that they are
practicing psychotherapy. They think that what they are doing has
something to do with education..."
Three Rules for This Evening's Class
by Victor Gonzales
"Good evening. ... Tonight we hope to teach you something about
school... and something about education..."
Ten
Good Reasons to Keep Your Child in Public [State] Schools
by Joel Turtel
"Here are ten reasons why parents should keep their kids in public
[state] schools... Public
Schools - Public Prisons by
Joel Turtel
"Why have we put our children into education prisons called public
[state] schools? What crimes have they committed? ... Do I
exaggerate by calling these schools 'prisons'? Well, let's compare
prisons and public schools..."
The New Education
General Articles Brave
New Schools: Introduction - Before You Begin by
Berit Kjos
"Remember
the frog that landed in a pan of water and stayed until it boiled? Had the pan been hot, the frog would have noticed and hopped out.
But the water felt cool at first, and the frog sensed no danger. It
simply relaxed and conformed to the gradual change. Subdued by the rising heat, it grew too sluggish to act. By the time the water boiled, the frog was
dead..."
Outcome-Based Education:
Behavioral Psychology in the Classroom
by Gene Zimmer
"Do you want your first grader to be taught arithmetic by using a
calculator, or to guess at words rather than read? Do you want him to do
his very best and then be given another child's grade? Do you want
educators to change the beliefs and behaviors you have taught your
child? Do you want homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexuality to be
taught as normal and acceptable?..." Education
Reform for the New World Order by
Al Dager
"The traditional classroom where
the teacher dispensed information to students who were expected to learn
certain facts and truths is being done away. In its place is a
new,
unstructured 'teaching environment' in which the teacher will no longer
teach, but 'facilitate' the learning process..." Education
and the New World Order by
Erica Carle
"An organization called the National Council for the Social
Studies (NCSS) which is an offshoot of the National Education
Association and a promoter of the New World Order, has claimed power to
determine what students should learn and should not learn in history,
geography, government, economics, religion, psychology, etc..."
Public Education or Pagan Indoctrination? A Report
on New Age Influence in the Schools
by Craig Branch
"'What did you learn in school today?' used to be a fairly benign
question to ask one's children, but this is no longer the case.
Thousands of parents ... are awakening to the startling reality that
there is something terribly wrong infecting public education. What these
parents are beginning to understand is that the New Age movement has
made significant inroads into the educational establishment and has
infused many curricula and programs with its practices and ideology..." Education
or Indoctrination? by L.
Michael
"Imagine a country where the curriculum taught in preschool
through college is designed by humanists and based on occultism. ... A
place where the school system ... is designed to directly undermine
parents' authority and destroy the natural child-parent
relationship..."
The Fraud of Education Reform
by
Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld
"There was a time when the NEA openly admitted that its goal was
world government. In a 1946 NEA Journal editorial ... the editor wrote,
'In the struggle to establish an adequate world government, the teacher
has many parts to play..."
Humanism and Public Education
by Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld
"In the January/February 1983 issue of The Humanist
magazine, a young scholar by the name of John J. Dunphy expressed the
aim of humanists in education with these very blunt words: 'I am
convinced that the battle for humankind's future must be waged and won
in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their
role as proselytizers of a new faith'..."
Columbine High and New Age Philosophy
by Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld
"One of the reasons why the educrats ... focused on guns as the
chief cause of the Littleton massacre is because Columbine High School
was supposed to be the kind of progressive school where such things
could never happen..." Glossary
of Education Terms
by Berit Kjos
"Most of these definitions come
from the glossary in Brave New Schools. Hopefully
this will help ... parents identify: (a) Educational terms that
sound nice but hide a contrary meaning, ... As time
permits, we plan to add more definitions..." Reinventing
the World: The Seamless System by
Berit Kjos
"Strange new labels have begun to define our schools, workplaces,
clinics and other institutions. We all hear them, but few understand
them: OBE, STW, TQM, CGM, PDC, HMO, Third Way... What do they really
mean? ... Who defines the terms and sets the standards?..." Reinventing
the World: The Mind-Changing Dialectic Process by
Berit Kjos
"The world's path to success is changing fast. In the new
21st-century institution - be it a school, church, corporation or
government - hard work and dedication won't suffice. Getting ahead in
the global community will mean compromise, conformity, group thinking
and submission to the ground rules of the consensus process..." Reinventing
the World: Managing the Masses Through Global Standards and Continual
Assessments by Berit Kjos
"We are told that globalization calls for accountability and
that accountability demands uniform, universal standards. That sounds
reasonable, doesn't it? But what about standardized people? Or
standardized beliefs and values?..."
Moulding Human Resources for the Global Workforce
by Berit Kjos
"Do you wonder who really plans your child's education? What
their true motives are? ... You will find some revealing answers at
UNESCO's website on Worldwide Action in Education..."
Brainwashing in America:
Why Few Dare Call It Conspiracy
by Berit Kjos
"Brainwashing is not, as some anti-Christian educators and
students contend, the Biblical process of training our children to love
and follow God. The word 'brainwashing' refers to a planned,
step-by-step attempt to 'wash' family-taught beliefs from the minds of
those who oppose government ideology..." Mind
Control: How to Resist Three UNESCO Strategies for Training Children to
Reject Truth...
by Berit Kjos
"'You're going to consult an oracle. It will tell you that you're
going to kill your best friend. This is destined to happened and there
is absolutely no way out...'. Emotional shock therapy has become
standard fare in public [state] schools from coast to coast. It produces
cognitive dissonance - mental and moral confusion..."
Using Children to Spy on Families: Changing Values
and Monitoring Minds in the Guise of 'Prevention'
by Berit Kjos
"Theater and role-playing are powerful tools for social change.
... T.A.L.K. Theater fits right in. 'It's psychological examination on
the students without parental consent'..."
All
Men Are Good by Nature by
David Norris
A "line of thinking that has influenced modern
education" ... is that of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), known
as 'Romanticism'. Rousseau believed "that everything was good as it
came from the hand of God and Nature, but all things deteriorate in the
hands of men. ... In 1762, Rousseau published Emile, a classic
guide to education according to nature..."
Teen Rage and Deadly Delights (Part One)
by Berit Kjos
"Social changes that drive teens to irrational rage..."
Teen Rage and Deadly Delights (Part Two)
by Berit Kjos
"Using violence to justify snooping, snitching and statist control..."
Public Schools: Manufacturing Center for Mindless,
Immoral Slaves by Rob Ronning
"The world system being placed into operation realizes that the family
is the backbone of resistance to their plans, and that children are the
key to the final implementation of their designs. A battle is raging on
many fronts for the minds and futures of our children, and the public
school system is one of the main battlefields..."
14-Year-Olds Studying Al
Qaeda Propaganda in Schools (4 February 2007)
"Pupils as young as 14 are being exposed to Al Qaeda propaganda in
history lessons, experts have claimed..."
Pre- and Primary
Schooling / Literacy / Dyslexia
The New Illiteracy
by Charles J. Sykes
"Joan Wittig and Beverly Jankowski are not experts. They just didn't
understand why their children weren't learning to write, spell, or read
very well. They didn't understand why their children kept coming home
with sloppy papers filled with spelling mistakes and bad grammar and why
teachers never corrected them or demanded better work..."
How Public [State] Schools are Destroying the
American [British] Brain by
Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld
"Have you ever corrected a teenager on a bit of factual
information, or a misspelling, or an incorrect usage of the language,
and gotten the response, 'Whatever'? ... Where does this casual, numb
response come from?..."
Why Children Fail
by Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld
"It is said that only about 20% of all Americans can be
considered truly literate, in the sense that they can deal with the
written word at any level..."
A
Child's Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste by
Joel Turtel
"About two years ago, I became a volunteer reading instructor in a
local public [state] school. I wanted to teach kids to read for a few
reasons..."
How to Dumb Down a Nation
by Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld
"Easy. Destroy its literacy. ... And once dumbed down, it becomes
the potential victim of any power that wants to dominate it..." Whole
language: Deconstruction in the Primary School
by Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld
"The ultimate goal of the whole
language movement—described by its promoters as “nothing short of a
grass-roots revolution in education”—is the replacement of our
biblically based Christian civilization by a world pagan, socialist
system. This may sound like an extreme statement..."
Defining Whole Language
by Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld
"The other day, I received an e-mail from a lady in California
who asked, 'What on earth is the whole-language system?' ...
Fortunately, the answer is easy to give, because whole-language
professors have been quite open in defining what they mean by their
pedagogic philosophy. So I shall quote some salient passages from their
writings..."
Look-See Reading Method vs. Phonics: How Psychologists Have Destroyed
Reading Ability (Gene Zimmer)
"Given its importance, it is not surprising that the dispute over the
teaching of reading is the site of some of the most intense and
emotional battles in the school wars..."
Dyslexia: The Man-Made Disease
by Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld
"For years I have been telling parents and educators that the
kind of reading difficulties afflicting perfectly normal children in our
schools today are being caused by the teaching methods and not by any
defect in the children themselves..."
The Season for Dyslexia
by Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld
"What most parents don't realize is that the reason why their
child is having a problem learning to read is because of the way he or
she is being taught..."
Newsweek and Dyslexia
by Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld
"In the sight approach, children ... are taught to look at each
word as a whole configuration, ... This sort of practice produces the
symptoms of dyslexia: reading words backwards, reversing letters when
writing, gross misspellings, word guessing, ... etc. The reason why
dyslexia is so hard to cure is because the child has acquired a holistic
reflex..."
Our Lobotomized Children
by Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld
"Some months ago, a father brought his 15-year-old, ninth-grade
son to me to be tested. This very intelligent boy had a reading problem
which was preventing him from advancing in his education. ... This
youngster was no different from so many others I have worked with over
the last 30 years. He was a typical sight-reader..."
Language
as a Battlefield by David
Norris
"[I]f the way in which we use language can be undermined, so
can the authoritarian belief-systems which determine it and society can
be changed. ... Language generally and grammar in particular reflect
precisely the way we look at things. ... Those able to influence the way
language is used will also direct the way in which the users of that
language think. ... Educationalists, ... have dictated the methods by
which children are taught to read and use the English language..."
Friedrich Froebel's Kindergartens
by John Taylor Gatto
"Since in Froebel's scheme the sacred scientific undertaking of
state schooling suffered from the 'state of raw material brought to it'
his plan was to gently remove or weaken the influence of parents,
transferring it to 'gardeners of children' ... That Froebel's purpose
has been substantially achieved in the West is the curse of our time and
lies at the heart of the problem of modern schooling..."
Psychologist Warns of 'Educational Television'
Myth (12 February 2008)
"[F]or Dr. Aric Sigman, ... the author of 'Remotely Controlled: How
Television is Damaging Our Lives', the battle against what he calls the
'recreational junk food' of TV is one well worth fighting. ... 'There is
a definite inverse relationship between time spent watching any kind of
television or screen when you are young and your ability to read and
concentrate when you are older'..."
Science and Just-So Stories Kid
Con: How Biology Texts Mislead High School Students
by Gordon Howard
"I have been a high school music
teacher for over 40 years and recently retired from full-time
teaching. Since then I have been casually employed as a supply and
short-contract teacher, and had the opportunity to see the text books
and lesson plans for a wide variety of school subjects..."
Theory of Evolution: Fact or Fairy Tale?
by Dr. Samuel Blumenfeld
"Back in 1987 the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a 1981 Louisiana law
which mandated a balanced treatment in teaching evolution and creation
in the public schools. ... The court adopted the atheist position that
creation is a religious myth..."
God the Educator (Integrating Evolutionary Theory
into Educational Practice) by
Dr. Samuel Blumenfeld
"Telling children that they are animals, part of the animal kingdom, and
training them as animals has been the downfall of American education.
... We are producing barbaric children and young adults who do not know
how to use their minds because they no longer have them. ... For as long
as behavioral psychologists control the curriculum, including the
content and instruction methods of public education, the schools will
never be able to attain the intellectual competence they once were
capable of..."
Environmental and Ecological
Studies
Saving the Earth
by Berit Kjos
"With today's emphasis on whole
education, thematic learning, and integrated curriculum, it's
difficult to know where environmental education begins and other studies
(math, reading, social studies...) end..."
Training Children to Thank a Goddess
by Berit Kjos
Recent United Nations Environmental Programme books for children
"are designed to arouse fear, anger and determination to fight for the
planet. But no genuine environmental problem can be solved without
factual understanding..."
Is Earth Our Mother?
by Berit Kjos
"During Earth Day 1990 celebrations,
children wrote poems to Our Mother, visualized her healing, used guided
imagery to connect with her spirits, and committed their lives to her
preservation..."
Transformational Education and the Global Warming
Fantasy by Allen Quist
"In early 2007 the government of the United Kingdom sent copies of Al
Gore's global warming DVD, An Inconvenient Truth, to all
secondary schools in England, Wales, Scotland. This action was part of a
nationwide 'Sustainable Schools year of Action' which had been launched
in 2006..."
Social Science/Studies
Sociology Hates Christianity
by Erica Carle
"Theorists in the 'social sciences'
have a special way of looking at their fellow humans..."
MultiCultural and
MultiFaith
Studies
Secularization of Education
by Al Dager
"Because of the influx of
immigrants of various religious persuasions [to America, but also
the UK - Ed.], particularly since the turn of the last century, state governments, as well as the federal government, have deemed it
necessary to remove as many elements of Christianity from their
indoctrination programs as they can. This has been a gradual
process which began with education reform in the late 19th century..."
More British School Indoctrination
(4 February 2007)
"[British school] children will be taught race relations and
multiculturalism with every subject they study - from Spanish to science
- under controversial changes to the school curriculum announced by the
Government..."
Eastern Mysticism in
Western Schools
The Mystical Science of the Golden Compass
by Berit Kjos
"It's hard for children not to
conform these days! The new Golden Compass Curriculum
helps break down any resistance. Using the dialectic process to
encourage conformity,
it's designed to build group consensus and imbed the story's occult
themes into 'open' minds. Ponder these discussion topics:
'What sort of dæmons might your friends,
relatives, classmates, or coworkers have? Describe your own dæmon.'..."
In
the Classroom, a New Focus on Quieting the Mind (16
June 2007)
"The lesson began with the striking of a Tibetan singing
bowl to induce mindful awareness..." Yoga
for Children (in Public School, That Is) (6
December 2006)
"Kids in public [state] school are learning yoga. According
to yoga instructor, Mark Blanchard (of Progressive Power Yoga), he
taught children at Colfax Elementary school in California this past
November. On his blog, he states: 'I will be introducing yoga to all of
the kids at the school as I donate a full yoga program'..." Filmmaker
Wants Transcendental Meditation in Every School
(9 March 2006)
"A Hollywood filmmaker who
practices a specific form of Transcendental Meditation is helping one
leader of the movement in his quest to bring the activity to every
school worldwide..."
Waging Jihad Through
Education
Across the Centuries:
The Day of Islam
by Al Dager
"Until recently, Eastern religion and American Indian religion have been
the favorite subjects for teaching young children in the public schools.
Of late, Islamic religious practices are increasingly infiltrating
schools..." Jihad
in Schools? (9 July 2007)
"Political Correctness: Seems the ACLU couldn't care less that a
San Diego public [state] school has set aside 15 minutes of classroom
instruction time for Muslim students to pray, while non-Muslims twiddle
their thumbs..." Teaching
Johnny About Islam (22 May 2006)
"In our brave new schools, Johnny can't say the pledge, but
he can recite the Quran. Yup, the same court that found the phrase
'Under God' unconstitutional now endorses Islamic catechism in public
school..." Look
Who's Teaching Johnny About Islam (3
May 2004)
"A top textbook consultant shaping classroom education on Islam in
American public [state] schools recently worked for a school funded and
controlled by the Saudi government, which propagates a rigidly
anti-Western strain of Islam, a WND investigation
reveals..." Islam
Studies Spark Hate Mail and Lawsuits (16
January 2002)
"Word of public-school students pretending to be Muslims, wearing
robes, simulating jihads and memorizing verses from the Koran in a
seventh-grade California classroom touched off a firestorm of debate,
but WND has learned these classroom exercises are neither isolated to
one school district nor are they anything new..."
See also
here for further general information
concerning Islam
Harry Potter and the New
Education Bewitched
by Harry Potter by Berit Kjos
"It's not surprising that Harry [Potter] has suddenly soared to the
peaks of popularity in schools across the country. His story fits right
into the international program for multicultural education. The
envisioned global community calls for a common set of values which
excludes traditional beliefs as intolerant and narrow - just as the
Harry Potter books show..." Movie
Magic and Unconscious Learning by
Berit Kjos
"Harry Potter fans ... share a new language with terms and meanings
that they validate and cheer in each other. The fact that the new
language makes little sense to mugglish parents ... only strengthens
their bond. Together, they explore and affirm the values defined by the
story. This exploration has been brought into classrooms across the
country..." More
Harry Potter Articles by
Berit Kjos
Revisionism
(This subject has
replaced History which has, sadly, long been consigned to the
dustbin...)
So What Was Your Child Taught Today, Sympathy For
Mr. Hitler?
(2 March 2008)
"The amazing thing about Britain's
slow-motion national suicide is that so many seemingly sensible people
attack and damage their own homeland, without having a clue about what
they are doing..."
Sex Education What
About Abstinence? by Robert Layton
"I was holding a notice from my 13-year-old son's school announcing
a meeting to preview the new course in sexuality. Parents could
examine the curriculum and take part in an actual lesson presented
exactly as it would be given to students..."
Sex Ed and Global Values
by Berit Kjos
"When fifteen-year-old Kevin walked into his American History
class ... he was given a handout. He glanced at the title:
'Heterosexuality: Can it be cured?' It came from the American Public
Health Association Caucus of Gay and Public Health Workers..."
Seduction to Destruction: The Homosexual
Agenda by Gary Yinger
"Homosexual activists have set a well planned and well financed agenda
that started in the 1960s and now includes not only tolerance of their
lethal lifestyle but acceptance with privileges as a special class, as a
minority group. The key target is our youth..."
Now They Want to Ban Mums and Dads
(5 February 2008)
"Schools are being ordered to drop the term 'mum and dad' in case it
offends pupils from a single-parent, homosexual or turkey-baster
'family'. Ed Balls, who runs the department of social engineering, also
wants four-year-olds to be taught about same-sex relationships..."
The
Weirdos We Pay to 'Talk Dirty' to Our Children / Depravity: One Thing
Our Children Are Being Taught (23
September 2007)
"If state schools were training
nine-year-olds to fire handguns, or 11-year-olds to ride motorbikes, you
might possibly protest. Why, after all, would children need to learn at
such young ages to do dangerous things that only adults are supposed to
do ... Might they not use their new knowledge before they are ready? Yet
we do something just as mad, and everybody approves of it. What is more,
the main argument for doing that thing has been repeatedly proved to be
wrong..." Ban
on 'Mom' and 'Dad' Considered - Again (27
April 2007)
"A plan that has been launched in the California state
Assembly - again - could be used to ban references to 'mom' and 'dad' in
public [state] schools statewide by prohibiting anything that would
'reflect adversely' on the homosexual lifestyle choice..." Fear-Based
Sex Education (8 September
2006)
"Much has been said about fear-based sex education in the
past few years. And I finally think I have figured out what they're
talking about..." Ninth
Circuit Body Slams Parents' Rights (8
November 2005)
"America's favorite appeals court has done it again! The 9th
Circuit Court in San Francisco, notorious for ruling against 'under God'
in the Pledge, upset families across America last week with another
controversial decision, this time undermining parents' rights. ... the
9th circuit ruled that parents have have no constitutional right to
prevent a school district from introducing sexual ideas to their
children..."
The New Show and Tell: How Homosexuality is Being
Promoted in the Classroom (27
October 2004)
"In schools all across ... this nation, we are seeing a very
aggressive plan by gay activist organizations that are boldly taking
their agenda into our schools. ... How do these pro-homosexual programs
get into the schools? One way is through diversity and anti-bullying
programs..."
Short
Comments/News Items
(Various Commentators)
Death Education
A GCSE English Lang/Lit Assignment
by a Concerned Adult Student
"Last year [2007] the teacher asked
us to play a game in one of the GCSE lessons. We had to imagine that we
were all in a hot air balloon that was going to crash land in a desert
island. The balloon was too heavy and the only chance to survive was to
throw one person overboard to a certain death..."
Death Education at Columbine High
by Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld
"Last weekend, the seniors at Columbine High School graduated. They
tossed their caps into the air, celebrating their liberation from twelve
years of public education where they were indoctrinated in the system's
moral and academic chaos and were undoubtedly glad to come out of it
alive. Some of their classmates did not..."
See also this related
article:
Toying With Death: Learning to Love Evil and Crave
Violence by Berit Kjos
"'After the Jonesboro shootings, one of the high-school teachers
told me how her students reacted when she told them about the shootings
at the middle school. 'They laughed', she told me with dismay. ... We
have raised a generations of barbarians who have learned to associate
violence with pleasure..."
The New Classroom Discipline Is
the Public [State] School Destroying the Male Child?
by Jeffrey Leving and Glenn Sacks
"Many modern educational practices are counterproductive for boys.
Success in school is tightly correlated with the ability to sit still,
be quiet and complete paperwork and assignments which are sometimes of
questionable value. ... Many young boys are bodily kinesthetic learners
who respond to hands-on lessons. The educational establishment finds
this inconvenient, and thus largely ignores it..."
My Life as a Troublemaker
by Jamaal M. Watson
"My name is Jamaal Watson ... and together with my buddy Victor,
I'm the creator of 'Elvis Impersonator' ... If you went to our school
records you might find us listed as 'troublemakers' ... and 'below
average' in many subjects. ... Let me tell you a few ... things about
Victor and myself that schools don't know..."
Zero
Tolerance for Non-Compliance: Ten Steps Toward Lifelong Behavior
Modification by Berit Kjos
"Should Twana Dawson be expelled for bringing a nail clipper
to school? ... John Turner was arrested during a school recess,
handcuffed, fingerprinted, and forbidden to call his mother. ... Amber
Nash brought a knife to school to cut a friend's birthday brownies. She
was suspended for ten days. ... Kameryan Lueng didn't realise that the
little knife attached to the chain of her grandfather's old pocket watch
would violate the 'zero tolerance' policy. Her punishment was suspension
from school and remediation at Redirection Academy. ... How can schools
justify their harsh punishment when their victims intend no
wrong?..."
Learning Fascism in American Schools
(3 May 1998)
"Today's topic, class, is ethics: If somebody offered you $50, would you
be more inclined to turn in a fellow student who did something
wrong?..." The
Myth of ADHD by Joel Turtel
"The vast majority of Ritalin and Adderall is given to school
children to treat an alleged disease called ADHD. Children who suffer
from ADHD are said to be inattentive, impulsive, and hyperactive. They
get bored easily in class, squirm in their seats, are always on the go,
or don't get along with other students or the teacher. In other words,
many children diagnosed with ADHD may simply be normal kids, full of
energy, and bored out of their minds sitting in mind-numbing,
public-school classrooms..." Why
Public [State] Schools Pressure Parents to Give Their Kids Mind-Altering
Drugs by Joel Turtel
"Nothing condemns our public-school system more than the fact that
many school authorities across America pressure parents to give
mind-altering drugs to millions of normal, innocent children to stop
bored kids from fidgeting in their seats of 'not paying attention'
..."
Attention-Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder, Ritalin, Drugging Children, and Psychiatry
by Gene Zimmer
"Ritalin is given to millions of children every year, with the amount
growing. Psychiatry has convinced a majority of the public that up to
20% of our children are 'mentally ill' and need these drugs to correct
their 'brain imbalances'..."
The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes 'Patients'
Out of Normal Children (Death
From Ritalin)
"On March 21, 2000, fourteen-year old Matthew Smith was having a
good time skateboarding with two of his cousins. Suddenly, he collapsed
to the floor and started turning blue. ... At the hospital he was
pronounced dead from a heart attack - a heart attack caused by
Ritalin..."
What Drugmakers Don't Want You to Know
(Death From Ritalin)
"Thousands of children have suddenly died over the years, as a
direct result of using psychotropic drugs used for ADD and ADHD..."
Vital Information About Ritalin, ADHD, and the
Politics Behind the ADHD/Ritalin Movement
by Peter R. Breggin, M.D.
"Our society has institutionalized drug abuse among our
children..."
Drug Information
(Death From Ritalin)
Drugs used for ADD and ADHD and their side effects.
Drugging Kids and School Violence
by Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld
"Believe it or not, there are now over 5 million school kids in
America on psychotropic drugs, most of which are prescribed and
administered by the schools themselves. ... What is most disturbing,
however, is the growing awareness that the increased violence among
school children may have more to do with the drugs than with the guns
they use to carry out their violence..."
ADD, ADHD, and
Antidepressant Drugs (8 March 2007)
"According to the U.S. National Institute of Health, an estimated 3-5%
of North American children have been diagnosed with ADD or ADHD. Many of
these kids, as well as adults, make use of prescription drugs to help
them manage the impact of AD/HD on their lives..."
Colorado School Board
Passes Resolution Warning About Ritalin
(December 1999)
"The Colorado State School Board passed a resolution on November 11
warning of the possible negative effects of psychotropic (mind-altering)
prescription drugs on schoolchildren..."
A Different Kind of Drug
War - Violent Behavior in Children Taking Prescribed Psychotropic Drugs
(December 1999)
"A school-board member's resolution calling for a higher standard of
care when prescribing mind-altering drugs for schoolchildren has erupted
in controversy in Colorado..."
'Old Paradigm' and 'New
Paradigm' Education Charts
by Berit Kjos New
Emphasis in Schools and Culture
The new social and
educational emphasis. Three
Sets of Meanings for Educational Buzzwords
The same double-speak
pervades the UN and all other parts of the new global management
system. Three Cultural Paradigms or Worldviews
The three global
absolutes which children are trained to see as fact in our schools are:
pantheism, monism, and evolution. Postmodern Culture
If we don't understand
the changing worldviews of influential leaders, we can't prepare for the
impact of this social revolution. Transformation From Personal Freedom to Collectivism and Control
From the Christian
paradigm through the Humanist paradigm to the Global paradigm. Biblical vs. Consensus Thinking
Transformed by the Word or
Conformed to the World
Three
Kinds of Group Relationships
The Christian - led by
the Spirit; the Secular - led by felt needs; and the Dialectic - driven
by organizational outcomes. Brainwashing and How to Resist It
Comparing standard
brainwashing tactics with New Paradigm education methods. Towards a Conceptual Model of Life-Long Education
Similarities between
America's Goals 2000 & UNESCO's Education Plan. From Soviet Education to US [and Western European] Education
Merging labor and 'lifelong
learning' with socialist ideology, psycho-social manipulation, and high
tech monitoring.
Teachers: The New Parents For The New Age The
Incredible Shrinking Parent
by Marlin Maddoux
"Nobody likes to get fired. But
if you're an average American parent, the chances are you've already
lost that job..." Whose
Children are They Anyway? by
David Norris
"We stand today in a battle zone. Two kingdoms are locked in
a fight to the death. Each kingdom claims total authority over every
aspect of life in our world and over everyone in it. ... Nowhere is this
battle more in evidence than in the struggle for the hearts and minds of
children taking place every day in state schools..."
What Happened to Parental Rights?
by Berit Kjos
"When the state assumes power to tell any parent what and how to
teach their children, all parents need to be on guard..." Public
Schools Are Un-American by
Joel Turtel
"Compulsory-attendance laws force parents to send their children to
public schools. These laws presume that the politicians we vote into
office, our agents whose salaries we pay with our taxes, have the right
to take away parents' liberty and inalienable rights..."
UN Wants Final Word on Rearing Your Kids
(28 January 2008)
"If the Senate ratifies the UN Convention on the Rights of the
Child, the state, acting under UN direction, will decide what your
children read, who they associate with, what discipline (if any) can be
imposed and whether or not they can be home-schooled..."
See also this related article:
Child Abuse by the Government
(20 February 2008)
"Government rips an autistic boy from his home because it prefers a
different treatment than the one offered by the parents ... after a
teacher called Child Protective Services..."
A Wee (Real) History Lesson
How Public [State] Education Cripples Our Kids and
Why by John Taylor Gatto
"Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced
schooling:... We have been taught (that is, schooled) in this country to
think of 'success' as synonymous with, or at least dependent on,
'schooling', but historically that isn't true in either an intellectual
or a financial sense..."
Chronology
of the National Education Association
by Berit Kjos
"Has our education system failed
[our] children? Not in the minds of 'progressive' educators and utopian
globalists. ... [they] cheer the changes that have traded facts for
fantasy, truth for myths, academics for collective socialization and
individual thinking for group manipulation..." Chronology
of Steps Towards International Education
by Berit Kjos
"Notice
the powerful people, organizations and foundations that inspire, plan,
and fund the transformation ... to (a) Purge
the beliefs, values, individualism, independence and free enterprise
that made [each] nation unique;
(b) Promote
global beliefs and interdependence, universal values, a managed economy,
and controlled human capital--even at the cost of constitutional rights
and personal freedom; (c) Implement the psycho-social strategies of
Mastery Learning to modify beliefs and behavior to match the needs of a
global economy..." Are
American Public [State] Schools the Same as Russian?
by Joel Turtel
"Many parents might think it a bit farfetched to compare our public
[state] schools to schools in socialist or communist countries. However,
if we look closer, we will see striking similarities between the two
systems..."
Some Lessons From the Underground History of
American Education by John
Taylor Gatto
"From the beginning, there was purpose behind forced schooling,
purpose which had nothing to do with what parents, kids, or communities
wanted. Instead it was forged out of what a highly centralized corporate
economy and system of finance bent on internationalizing itself was
thought to need; that, and what a strong, centralized political state
needed, too. School was looked upon from the first decade of the
twentieth century as a branch of industry and a tool of governance..."
Radical Democracy and Our Future: A Call to Action
by John Taylor Gatto
"[T]he vital warfare ... in school and society is independent of
the traditional historical dichotomies like Left/Right, rich/poor,
Democrat/Republican, conservative/liberal, etc. A poor, radically
leftist, self-styled liberal Democrat who wants to stick his nose in my
family's business, ... and force my children to swallow his notion what
an education should be about is exactly the same sort of enemy that a
rich, radically rightest self-styled conservative Republican who wants
to do the same thing is..."
Bush, Gorbachev, Schultz, and Soviet Education
by Berit Kjos
"George W. Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev, George Schultz, and your children -
how are they linked? Why does it matter? ... If you are as concerned as
I am about America's shift from traditional values and factual education
to global values and psycho-social strategies for 'lifelong learning'
you would want to know the answers..."
Homeschooling
Homeschooled
by Michael Pearl
"Our Western culture is
evangelistic and totalitarian in its zeal to promote secular humanism.
Their primary means of achieving universal compliance is the public
[state] designed educational system. It is not because it is public nor
because it is universal that it is evil. The evil is found in two
things:..."
Home
Schooling: An Alternative to Public 'Education'
by Gene Zimmer
"It is becoming clearly obvious to many parents that something is very
wrong with the public education system. Each year fewer students
graduate with sufficient academic and cognitive skills, violence and
immorality continue to rise, ... the reasons for this are simple to
understand..."
How to Get an Education at Home
by Pat Farenga
"There is a revolution going on in education, but it is not
happening in schools. It is happening in the homes of American families
in every state. It is happening every time a family decides to help its
children learn at home instead of sending them to public school.
Fourteen years ago there were roughly 10,000 children being homeschooled;
now there are upwards of 600,000 children learning at home..."
Thinking of Homeschooling?
by Dr. Samuel Blumenfeld
"Many working parents wouldn't dream of homeschooling. Yet there is
enough growing concern among some parents that is leading them to think
of homeschooling as an alternative to the public school..." Homeschooling
Saves Your Child From Destruction by
Joel Turtel
"Home schooling removes children from public [state] school. That
alone makes home schooling worthwhile. Unlike public-school children,
home-schooled kids are not prisoners of a system that can wreck their
self-esteem, ability to read, and love of learning. Home schooled kids
don't have to read dumb-downed [sic] text books, study subjects they
hate, or endure meaningless classes six to eight hours a day..." Homeschooling:
Can I Do It? by Joel Turtel
"Many parents would like to homeschool their children but are
afraid they don't have the training or ability to be their children's
teacher. This is certainly understandable, because most parents never
had any formal training to be a teacher. However, most parents don't
have to worry about this issue..."
The Three Myths of Homeschooling
by Berit Kjos
"Myth 1 - They won't learn the needed social skills if I teach at
home. Myth 2 - I could never teach! I don't have any degree.
Myth 3 - My kids are going to a good school. Public [state] schools may
be changing in other parts of the country, but our school is
different!..."
Revolution via Home Schooling
by Dr. Samuel Blumenfeld
"The only effective group of citizens today in open opposition to big
government are the home schoolers. They are the only Americans willing
to take on the public education system that props up the entire statist
enterprise of big, intrusive government..."
Homeschooling and Global Tyranny
by Dr. Samuel Blumenfeld
"America is at a very crucial period in its history. Our national
sovereignty is being continually diminished by the New World Order
clique that wants to spearhead the movement into world government. ...
Meanwhile, American children in American schools are being indoctrinated
in world citizenship and away from patriotism, which is called
ethnocentrism. But there's a fly in the ointment. it is called
homeschooling..." The
Reformed School of Alexandria by
Michael Pearl
"We did not raise our children in a classroom environment. I
conducted my 'classes' in the front seat of the pickup or in the cabinet
shop. Debi conducted her classes in the kitchen or sitting at the
kitchen table enthusiastically discussing points of interest to the
children..." What
Curriculum Do You Recommend? by
Debi Pearl
"Remember, God did not make classroom education. It is the
invention of humanists seeking to usurp parental authority. Why
recapture your rights and duty only to adopt their methods of
teaching?..." Homeschooling
As a Way of Life by Rebekah
Joy Pearl
"For many, 'school' is the main focus in 'homeschooling'. As
for me 'home' is most important. ... The essence of homeschooling is
equipping a child to learn for the rest of his/her life. ... From time
to time I meet young mothers who want to start homeschooling, but they
are terrified by their own inadequacy..." Deliberate
Dumbing of America: Home Schooling Has Come A Long Way
by Phyllis Schlafly
"It takes uncommon commitment by parents to undertake a home school
regimen, but they soon discover they can do in a couple of hours what
takes all day at regular school..." Homeschooling
Pioneers: Interview With Rebekah (Pearl) Anast by
Deborah Wuehler, The Old Schoolhouse Magazine
"Ever had a child training problem and not known what to do?
I have, and I have turned again and again to a wonderful little book
entitled To Train Up A Child by Michael and Debi Pearl.
... The Pearls also happen to be among the pioneers of homeschooling in
the early 1970s during the movement's turbulent beginnings. We are so
pleased to have Rebekah Anast (formerly Rebekah Pearl) with us to let us
in on what it was like being a homeschooled child under the tutelage of
the infamous Pearls during this breaking movement called home
education..." Ben
Franklin and Thomas Jefferson Never Went to Public [State] School
by Joel Turtel
"Most of our Founding Fathers, ... like most average colonial
Americans, spent few years, if any, in formal grammar schools of the
day, yet they knew how to read and write well. ... At least ten of our
presidents were home-schooled..." Have
Christian Schools Turned the Tide?
by Ronald E.
Williams
"In the past many years, we have witnessed dramatic growth in the
area of Christian Education. Churches and pastors who had never given
serious thought to being involved in the Christian school movement are
now daily teaching their youngsters in the own school..." Prosecutor
Wants Homeschool Parents Jailed
(19 May 2007)
"A federal prosecutor in the
German state of Hesse has announced plans to seek three-month prison
terms for a mother and father who homeschool their six children..." Western
Homeschoolers Need Political Asylum From Democracy
(15 April 2007)
"A growing crackdown on homeschool
families - most of whom are Christian - is the 'edge of the night that's
coming' for believers, according to an expert in the field..." Homeschool
Student Disappears From Psych Ward (13
February 2007)
"The case involving a 15-yr-old homeschool student in Germany who
suddenly was snatched from her home by a SWAT team of police officers
and sent to a psychiatric ward for her 'school phobia' suddenly has
taken a turn for the worse..." DfES
Consultation on Suitable and Efficient Home Education by Parents
(Email received 20 December 2006)
"So the [British] government think that some parents opting for
home education 'may not be in a position to offer their children the
well rounded education to which they are entitled'..." Parents
Jailed, Fined in Germany for Homeschooling
(No date. Email received 1 November 2006)
"What if you had to choose between not home schooling and
being arrested? In a western democracy that is tolerant of just about
anything, except teaching your children at home, German parents who want
to home school have to decide..." European
Human Rights Court Upholds Nazi Ban on Homeschooling
(28 September 2006)
"The ECHR does not protect European citizens against Hitler's laws.
... The EU Court's decision states that the right to education 'by its
very nature calls for regulation by the State.'..." Christians
Patronize Public Schools at Their Children's Peril (11
September 2006)
"[A]dvocates for Christian home education say parents should not
delegate their God-given responsibility to 'raise up a child in the way
he should go' to godless schools with increasingly anti-Christian
curricula..." Constitution
Threatened by Homeschool Case (12
August 2006)
"A couple in Brussels has been threatened with criminal
neglect for schooling their children at home, and a U.S. expert on the
issue told WND the case actually could pose a threat to the sovereignty
of the U.S. constitution..." Brussels
Journal Editor Threatened With Prosecution Over Homeschooling
(15 June 2006)
"Yesterday, my husband Paul Belien, ... was summoned to the
police station and interrogated. He was told that the Belgian
authorities are of the opinion that, as a homeschooler, he has not
adequately educated his children and, hence, is neglecting his duty as a
parent, which is a criminal offence..." The
New World Disorder: U.N. Making Home Schooling Illegal?
(27 May 2006)
"A U.N. treaty conferring rights to children could make home
schooling illegal in the U.S. even though the Senate has not
ratified it, a home schooling association warns. ... The United Nations
Convention on the Rights of the Child ... places severe limitations on a
parent's right to direct and train their children..."
Christian
and Home Schools / Support Groups Home
Service
48, Heaton Moor Road, Stockport, SK4 4NX, UK. Tel: 0161 432
3782, Website: www.home-service.org
"A growing number of
families are educating their children at home in the UK, and many of
them are Christians, motivated by a desire to bring up their children in
'the nurture and admonition of the Lord'. Many others are
considering such a move, but are uncertain as to its legality and
practicality. ... Home Service is a help and advice organisation
for Christians teaching their children at home..." Preschool
with Ace and Christi
Christian Education Europe, Maranatha House, Unit 5, Northford
Close, Shrivenham, Swindon, SN6 8HL, UK.
Tel: 01793 783783 / 787927, Fax: 01793 783775, Email: cee@christian-education.org
Website: www.christian-education.org
"Every child needs proper
preparation for a successful school experience. Preschool with Ace
and Christi prepares children to learn to read and develop the
physical skills they need for success..." Family
Resources
40, Leivers Close, East Leake, Loughborough, LE12 6PQ, UK. Tel:
01509 854340
"God's
definition of education (i.e. comprehensive education) is the task he
has given to every father in Ephesians 6:4. It involves the whole
of a child's life in his parents' care. This is far more than most
of us envisage when talking about education. ... For us, home education
came about because ... we became convinced that the Bible teaches that
parents are responsible for the education their children
receive..."
Action
for Home Education
"Action for Home
Education (AHEd), an internet-based rights group for England, Wales and
Northern Ireland, launches today [6th January, 2007] in Derby with a
pledge to act to protect the rights of parents and children who wish to
enjoy home-based education without undue state interference, which they
claim has reached an intolerable high and is set to worsen. ...
According to New Labour mantra, every child matters, yet it blatantly
attempts to prescribe the same diet of schooling to every child
regardless of his or her individual needs and wishes. ... AHEd asserts
that EACH CHILD MATTERS individually ... to parents and it is parents
who have the duty to make important educational decisions. But AHEd
members are deeply concerned that current proposals by government
threaten to remove parental responsibility and substitute the state as
arbiter of what is best for children..." HSLDA
- Home School Legal Defense Association
(USA / Canada / with links to HSLDA
sites for 35 further countries)
"Home School Legal Defense Association is a nonprofit
advocacy organization established to defend and advance the
constitutional right of parents to direct the education of their
children and to protect family freedoms. Through annual memberships,
HSLDA is tens of thousands of families united in service together,
providing a strong voice when and where needed. HSLDA advocates
(a) on the legal front, (b) on Capitol Hill, (c) in state legislatures,
(d) in the media, (e) for the movement..." HSLDA
- Home School Legal Defense Association (United
Kingdom)
Details as above. The
Old Schoolhouse
The Magazine for Homeschool Families
"This full-color, 200-page
quarterly publication can be found across North America and on almost
every other continent too! Each issue of TOS is distributed on
newsstands throughout the United States and Canada, as well as in
Borders and Barnes & Noble. Also, be on the look out because we’re
coming to Christian bookstores soon. In addition, we support
and encourage subscribers and homeschool groups the world over –
copies of journey to South Africa, England, Germany, Australia, Brazil,
Thailand, Japan, China, the Philippines, India and many other lands..."
General
News
Items and Comments
Schools
Must Make Pupils Mix With Minorities or Face Sanctions
(16 July 2007)
"[UK s]chools with mainly white pupils could be labelled 'failing'
if they don't encourage children to mix with other races and
religions..." Save
Our Kids From PC 'Cops' (17
March 2007)
"My two little girls have just come crashing into the
kitchen with new dolls that can squeak and gurgle and w** themselves.
Izzy, six, cradled hers carefully, demonstrating how it can coo and
flutter its eyelids. Willow, three, said: 'Mine does squeak too - when I
jump on it. Look.' And she jumped up and down on its stomach while it
squeaked in a slightly stunned way. Under the newly proposed national
curriculum for the under-fives, I'm assuming this would be a fail for
Willow..." Sacrificing
Truth on the Altar of Diversity (31
August 2006)
"You're a publisher of children's textbooks, and you have a
problem. Your diversity guidelines - quotas in all but name - require
you to include pictures of disabled children in your elementary and high
school texts, but it isn't easy to find such children who are willing
and able to pose for a photographer. ... How can you meet your quota?...
Well, you can always do what Houghton Mifflin does..." Critical
Thinking: or, Making Me the Straw Man
(12 May 2006)
"They are one of the biggest
publishers of textbooks in the world, and they wanted to use some of my
writings in one of their products. My first thought was, 'Gee, I'm
coming up in the world.' The second was, 'How do they intend to
use it?' So I asked for a sample. A good thing I
did..."
External
Links Kjos
Ministries - General
Articles
| EdWatch
Index
| Education
Quotes
"We
hope to provide vital facts ... that will help
you prepare for a global society that shows little tolerance for the
Christian world view. You will find resources that demonstrate and
document: The cultural shift from a Christian to a global paradigm;
The classroom shift from truth, fact and logic to myth, feeling, and
imagination; The growing acceptance of an earth-centered spirituality
and code of ethics ... ; How movies, television
and schools promote this global spirituality; Why the "group
thinking" or "consensus process" taught in schools and
workplaces around the world turn young and old against absolute truth..." No
Greater Joy
"No
Greater Joy is the ministry of Michael & Debi Pearl under the
auspices of No Greater Joy Ministries Inc. Michael has been a pastor,
missionary, and evangelist for 40 years. The Pearls have 5 children, all
homeschooled. They have grown up to become missionaries and church
leaders. Though holding a BS from Crichton College, when Michael is
asked for his credentials on child training he points to his five
children. As goes the child so goes
the future adult—and the future parent. At every moment, parents
holding little children are holding the future. Parenting, the most
important and demanding job in the world comes on us by default. Ready
or not, prepared or ill equipped, all parents produce fruit that lasts
throughout eternity..." No
Greater Joy - Homeschooling Articles
"This is a general section with articles that
pertain to homeschooling or home based education of just about any
type." The
Old Schoolhouse Magazine - Articles
"Here you'll find a treasure trove of articles
hand-picked from past issues of The Old Schoolhouse
magazine."
EdWatch: Education For A FREE Nation
"EdWatch.org is full of informative articles, links to radio
interviews, links to newspaper articles, and links to other resource
materials..."
Death From Ritalin: The Truth Behind ADHD
"Parents have concerns about being pressured to diagnose, treat and drug
their child for ADHD, attention deficit. The true story about our Sons
death caused from Ritalin use. There are natural alternative treatments
besides Ritalin..."
Materials
Some books we would
especially recommend:
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Brave
New Schools:
Guiding Your Child Through the Dangers
of the Changing School System
by Berit Kjos
Harvest House
Publishers, 1995
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"Parents have every
reason to ask serious questions about the state of their children's
education. Instead of academics, schools today are aiming squarely
at another goal - preparing children to become part of a global
community ... and a global spirituality. With concrete examples
from public [state] school material, Berit Kjos demonstrates how myths,
feelings, and imagination have replaced facts, logic, and history in out
classrooms. Brave New Schools will equip you to: (a)
recognize dangerous teaching methods and content; (b) understand the
national computer monitoring system; (c) help your child resist the
seductive myths and misinformation; (d) communicate your valid concerns
to teachers and administrators; (e) discover the inner workings of the
new educational system. You can make a positive difference in your
children's education. This book will show you how."
This
book is available from the following distributors: http://www.crossroad.to/text/1-books.htm |