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?..."

Health Versus Education  (15 November 2009)
"[W]hile we all have a good picture of what it is to be healthy, we don’t seem to share the same kind of insight into what it means to be educated. ... People have to ask themselves what education is for, in a way they would never ask what health is for. People speculate that education is for the sake of the economy; for social cohesion; for personal fulfilment; for gaining qualifications; for training revolutionaries, or for the preservation of tradition. As in so many other areas where the aims are less clear than medicine: 'some men are aiming at cures which other men would regard as worse maladies; are offering ultimate conditions as states of health which others would uncompromisingly call states of disease.' Chesterton (1910)..."
 

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-thought 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..."

Schooling: The Hidden Agenda  by Daniel Quinn
"The need for schooling is bolstered by two-well entrenched pieces of cultural mythology. The first and most pernicious of these is that children will not learn unless they're compelled to - in school. ... Of course, anyone who has had a child knows what an absurd lie this is..."

Public [State] Schools Aren't for Christians  by Richard Wheeler
"This book deals with a delicate subject - the dangers of government education in America. Below is a list of subjects that are addressed from a Biblical perspective. If you use even one of the six reasons as justification for placing your children in a public school, this book is a 'must' reading..."

Is Education Improving? If Not, Why Not?  by Irina Tyk
"Education is said to have improved in the last few years. Good schools continue to do good work and failing schools are being turned around. There is an accepted view that the world of education is moving forward positively, parental concerns continue to be voiced and heeded. The general perception is that educational matters are on the up! I would like to suggest that this is not the case..."

Government Schools Hoodwink Christian Parents  (14 October 2010)
"The movie Waiting for Superman is causing a stir. Socialist union supporters are accusing it of 'scapegoating teachers and union-busting', and teachers are protesting outside movie theaters around the country. NEA President Dennis Van Roekel has said that 'the film demonizes public education, teachers unions and, unfortunately, teachers.' By bringing national attention to the plight of parents whose kids are stuck in poor performing schools, Superman is certainly agitating educators. There's another movie coming soon, however, that tells the true story about why public schools are so dangerous to our kids. IndoctriNation, produced by filmmaker and father of seven Colin Gunn, tells the story of the Gunn family's bus tour across America on a quest to discover the origins of our modern educational system. What they discover 'is a masterful design.'...

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 Hypocrisy of Intolerant 'Tolerance'  by Jonathan Sarfati
"Imagine that you are a 13-year-old student in a state high school and your class is given an assignment that conflicts with your religious beliefs. What if you were told that by not completing the assignment you would fail the class? ... Would the state education system protect your rights against religious discrimination?..."

Erring on the Side of Censorship  by Lita Cosner
"Becoming a valedictorian is hard work, and a student making the valedictorian's address has every reason to be thrilled with this accomplishment. It is common in this address for the speaker to credit those who have helped the student reach that podium. ... But when Brittany McComb tried to thank the Person most important to her success ... the school cut off her microphone..."

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'..."

Reviving the 'Science' of 'Re-education'  by Berit Kjos
"While Stalin was implementing his 'scientific' brainwashing scheme in the Soviet Union, the free West (especially England, Canada and the USA) generally ignored it. No moral outcry was heard when millions of Russians were slaughtered or herded to labor camps. Why?..."

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..."

Totalitarianism and Education  by Sven Sellanraa
"Between the ages of 16 and 19, virtually all Norwegians attend upper secondary school ... Most opt for public schools over private ones, and a goodly chunk of that group chooses a course plan whose emphasis is on history, social science, and the humanities. As our educators admit, though, Norwegian students would be remiss to expect to actually learn anything about those subjects. This is not an accident caused by the quality of the school system, ... it is a consequence of design. The bureaucrats and intellectuals who create the curriculum for Norway's State schools, most of whom attended university during the 1960s and 1970s and partook of that era's student radicalism, agree that the goal of education is not the transmission of knowledge, but the propagation of soixante-huitardisme, relativism, and a bellyfeel hatred of white Europeans..."

Indoctrinating Our Toddlers  by Bill Muehlenberg
"Public, state-provided education is relatively recent, not even 200 years old. Prior to state education, parents were the primary educators of their children. In addition to teaching children the basics, they could also pass on deeply-held values and beliefs. But with most children in the West today spending a large part of their early years in state schools, the values and ideologies of the state, not the parents, become dominant. And those with values which are hostile to that of most parents are quite happy to exploit this to the maximum. Indeed, this has been a deliberate policy..."

Censorship and the Secular Left  by Bill Muehlenberg
"Liberal or leftist secularism is the reigning ideology amongst our Western intelligentsia and elites. It certainly has a stranglehold on our educational system. It can be very difficult to get in alternative points of view. Most attempts to penetrate this ideological hegemony are usually met with stiff opposition, animosity, and censorship..."

Students, Red Pens, and the State of a Nation  by Bill Muehlenberg
"By now most of you would have heard of another example of madness in our public (taxpayer-funded) schools. An education kit in Queensland is encouraging teachers to throw out their red marking pens because using them might give little Johnny or Sarah a bad self-image. Here is how one news report puts it:.."

Time to De-Radicalise Our Schools  by Bill Muehlenberg
"Federal Education Minister Julie Bishop caused quite a stir last week when she made a two-part suggestion about our education system. One, she proposed a standardised national curriculum, and two, she argued that the hegemony of left-wing ideology over our school system needs to be broken. Her second proposal especially drew the ire from all the usual suspects. Education unions, officials and bureaucrats were quick to attack Bishop, and defend their turf. They of course denied any leftist slant to teaching, and claimed she was simply being provocative..."

A Review of Why Our Schools are Failing by Kevin Donnelly  by Bill Muehlenberg
"Earlier this year the Howard Government came under attack for suggesting that many parents are concerned about the state of our schools. ... Indeed, leftist bias, mediocrity, a downwards leveling, discipline problems, lowered academic standards, political correctness, and the push for values that many parents are uncomfortable with, have all led to a mass exodus from public education. The facts bear this out..."

A Review of Child Abuse in the Classroom edited by Phyllis Schlafly  by Bill Muehlenberg
"Several years ago when my then 5-year-old was attending first grade at a local state school, he came home with a document called a 'Social Justice Policy'. I was supposed to read it and pass on any comments. Most parents probably would not have read it. I did, and I was upset by what I read. The document was basically a feminist tract which proposed a number of measures to make every aspect of the school more 'gender inclusive'. ... I knew that attempts to enforce political correctness and to engage in social engineering were rife in colleges, but I was not prepared for seeing my 5-year-old being used as a tool in this madness. This was to be my first exposure to an educational system that has long ago abandoned simply teaching knowledge and skills, but instead acts as a change agent to redirect our children’s values and beliefs..."

The Traditional and Progressive Philosophies of Education  (June 1999)
"It is impossible to understand what is happening in our education system without first having some knowledge of the two conflicting philosophies which affect policy. These are usually described as the traditional and progressive philosophies. ... Major tenets of the traditional philosophy are listed below with the progressive equivalents alongside. Key words are in italics:.."

Pre- and Primary Schooling / Literacy / English / 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  by 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..."

Grammar is Back - and Spelling will also Score Marks Under Exams Shake-up  (19 November 2010)
"A-levels and GCSEs are to be toughened up with fewer but harder exams and a crackdown on poor ­grammar and spelling under sweeping reforms being unveiled next week..."

All-Day Kindergarten: An Early Start to Educational Brainwashing  (23 August 2010)
"This fall children as young as three- and- a-half years old will attend all-day Kindergarten in 600 schools across the province. Many think this is a great idea. How can anybody question an early start to schooling and learning? Some educators believe, including parents, that the earlier we begin schooling the better..."

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'..."

The Teaching of English  (June 2004)
"If a driving test examiner awarded passes to learner drivers on the basis of the interesting places they took him to instead of on their driving technique, our roads would very soon become impossibly dangerous. But language use is a learnt skill just as much as driving a car, and every year teachers award high grades to students who can tailor their style and tone to their audience but are unable to form a coherent, grammatical sentence..."

Lost for Wurds  (30 June 2002)
"The diagnosis, when it finally came, was a relief. My son wasn't stupid; he just had a syndrome. He was dyspraxic. No one could tell us exactly what dyspraxia was, nor how it differed from dyslexia or ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) or Asperger's or all the other conditions with which children were then being fashionably diagnosed. And when we looked into it, it appeared that which of these conditions you had often depended on what kind of professional - educational psychologist, physiotherapist, GP - made the diagnosis..."

Science and Just-So Stories

The Elephant in the Room  by Renton Maclachlan
"Usually, we teach what we think is important, and don't teach things we consider unimportant. But what is important and by what standard is this determined?...

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..."

What Biology Textbooks Never Told You About Evolution  by Royal Truman
"Why do many believe evolutionary theory is true? One is bombarded constantly with claims that all scientists believe in evolution; that science has demonstrated it; that evolution is based on empirical science. Many might remember 'proofs' ... learned in school or from popular science articles..."

Ten Questions to Ask Your Biology Teacher About Evolution  by Jonathan Wells

They're Teaching Racism to Our Kids  by Tas Walker
"A school textbook used in Australia includes one of the classic icons of evolution that NewScientist recently admitted is a racist hangover from the Victorian era. Although this example is specific to Australia, check the textbooks used in your country because the problem is a global one..."

They Are Teaching Lies to Our Kids  by Tas Walker
"A friend recently showed me a copy of his teenage son's new science text book. ... there's a whole unit on evolution. ... As I looked through the unit I found it was full of out-dated information and scientific errors. You could write a whole book refuting the stuff..."

Lying in the Name of Indoctrination  by Anika Smith
"Dogmatists committed to a dying paradigm will argue with falsehoods to convince the public of their claims... especially when they're targeting children..."

Who's Really Pushing 'Bad Science'?  by Dr. Jonathan Sarfati
"It is vitally important that words should be used accurately and consistently. Without this, any discussion is meaningless..."

Faith-Based Attacks on Religious Schools  by Lita Cosner
"'So what is a faith-based education and what happens if religion collides with it?' This question was the subject of the May 27th broadcast of Insight. ... Unsurprisingly, evolution surfaced nearly immediately as the major point of conflict between secular and religious education..."

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..."

'How Do I Do My Assignment About Evolution?'  by Tas Walker
"So ... [you] have received an assignment asking you to explain some evolutionary concepts. ... All you need is to understand the thinking of secular science, how to research the topic, and how to write the assignment..."

So, You're Doing a Report on Creation vs. Evolution...  (Creation Ministries International)
"Every school year, students wanting to do a paper on 'Creation vs. Evolution' contact our ministry for our advice and insights..."

'Creation Evangelism' in the Public School Classroom  (Creation Ministries International)
"Here is a fascinating email exchange between a Christian family (daughter and father) and a science teacher in a USA public [state] school. We think it will be enlightening about the nature of the battle that undoubtedly plays itself out many times each day in government-run schools in the Western world..."

A Faithful Man Takes on Faith-Based Teaching  (Creation Ministries International)
"Dear [...], I am the father of [...], and I would like to respectfully express to you my concern over your approach to teaching evolution in the classroom and materials used. ...I do not have a problem with teaching evolution, as long as the scientific problems are also discussed, but this does not appear to the case in your classroom..."

Is Evolution Really Essential For Biology?  by Dr. Jonathan Sarfati
"The following email was received from university professor Richard Meiss concerning the debate Clash Over Origins in which CMI's Dr. Carl Wieland debated University of Georgia professor Mark Farmer..."

Science Lessons Are All Talk and No Learning  (6 November 2010)
"Science in schools is under threat as teachers abandon rigorous lessons in favour of classroom debates on social problems..."

Top Scientists Tell Scottish Pupils: the Bible is True  (16 October 2010)
"A new creationist group that preaches [sic] the 'scientific' [sic] theory of intelligent design has set up in Glasgow with the stated aim of promoting its beliefs to schools and colleges..."

Faith Schools  (19 August 2010)
"I made myself watch the Richard Dawkins' programme 'Faith Schools Menace' last night and it was predictably biased and prejudiced I thought. I find it ironic that the things he accuses 'religious' people of are the very traits he exhibits himself..."

Downing Street Petition Demands Reversal of Catastrophic Decline in School Science Exam Standards  (27 November 2008)
"Armed with the first hard evidence of a catastrophic slippage in school science examinations standards, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has launched a Downing Street e-petition calling for urgent intervention to halt the slide..."

Environmental and Ecological Studies

Terrorising Our Kids for Gaia  by Bill Muehlenberg
"Fear-mongering about the environment is not new. And using our classrooms to terrorise our kids about supposed environmental catastrophes is not new either. The people doing the terrorising may have good intentions, but they often have hidden agendas as well..."

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..."

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..."

Geography

Education Wars  by Bill Muehlenberg
"As has been frequently documented, our educational institutions have by and large been captured by the ideological Left and the forces of political correctness. The three Rs have for some time now been replaced by various left wing causes, ideological propaganda, and a monotonous critique of the West. It is hard to find any core department in our schools today that has not been subverted by this radical agenda. The arts and humanities departments have long ago succumbed to the assault troops of the secular left. But even more mundane school subjects are not immune. Consider the area of geography for example. When I was growing up that subject had to do with naming rivers, identifying countries, recognising topography and the like. But not today. Instead we have a radicalised and politicised geography..."

Revisionism
(This subject has replaced History which has, sadly, long been consigned to the dustbin...)

History Wars  by Bill Muehlenberg
"It has always been a hallmark of the totalist state to control education and to rewrite history. Those who can alter the past will be able to manipulate the future. Sadly democratic states are not immune from allowing education in general and history in particular to be dominated by those pushing agendas. For decades now mass education in the West has largely been in the hands of the secular left, and they have been quite happy to push their own politically correct agendas in all areas, including history..."

Homosexual History Lessons in Public [State] Schools  (15 December 2010)
"Schools have long been accused of re-writing history in order to support current culture. In this circumstance history would flagrantly be rewritten with propaganda favoring pro-homosexual messages in the schools. To add GLBT issues to the history of California and the United States further dilutes objective truth in public schools and misinforms children about the lifestyle..."

History 'Disappearing From Schools'  (10 September 2010)

History Under Threat: Pupils Receive Just 38 Hours of Lessons at Secondary School  (10 September 2010)
"History is 'disappearing' from state secondary schools because head teachers no longer value the subject ... schools downgrade the subject in favour of trendy 'themed' teaching..."

Finally, a Reminder That These Islands DO Have a Proud History  (18 April 2010)
Can we have our history back? You know, the story we all used to have by heart, of how our liberties were founded by Magna Carta, of defeating the Armada, of the Civil War, the Restoration, the Glorious Revo­lution and the Golden Age that followed, of victory abroad and peace and prosperity at home?..."

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..."

Multiculturalism's War on Education  (27 August 2007)
"Leaf through a school textbook and you'll find that there is a definite pattern behind multiculturalism's reshaping of the curriculum. What multiculturalists seek is not the goal they advertise, but something else entirely. Consider, for instance, the teaching of history..."

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..."

Remember Lessons of the Past  (July 2004)
"Perhaps the first step backwards in the teaching of history occurred in the late 1980s, when the statutory National Curriculum was introduced.  At that time, the educational establishment was determined that ‘boring’ knowledge of historical facts and dates should be replaced by so-called skills of empathy, detecting bias and evaluating sources.  Instead of expecting youngsters to know the facts concerning the Battle of Trafalgar, they would be asked to explain how one of Nelson’s sailors might feel during the Battle..."

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/MultiFaith Studies and East Meets West

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..."

'Multicultural' Education  by Thomas Sowell
"Let us examine the multiculturalists' questions: (1) Why do we study Western civilisation, to the neglect of other civilisations? (2) Why are the traditional classics of Western civilisation written by dead white males? (3) Don't we need multiculturalism to get people to understand each other and get along with each other? (4) How are we to be part of the global economy, or engage in all sorts of other international activities, without being multicultural?..."

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.'..."

Banning the Gideons From State Schools  by Archbishop Cranmer
"It’s a free text book, for Pete’s sake. You don’t have to believe it; you don’t have to read it; and you don’t even have to appreciate it. The Gideons have been generously and unconditionally gifting the New Testament (and Psalms) to the nation’s schoolchildren for donkey’s years. ... Since Christianity is still part of the National Curriculum and the study of the faith is supposed to be pre-eminent within Religious Education, why on earth would any school ban the Gideons from visiting?..."

Atheism and One-Way Indoctrination  by Bill Muehlenberg
"[In] today’s press, we are told that Atheist Foundation of Australia’s David Nicholls is quite hot under the collar about the evils of religious instruction for children. As the Herald Sun article puts it, 'President David Nicholls said it was time to rip religion out of schools'..."

Lessons in Atheism For Children as Young as Four  (30 March 2011)
"Education chiefs are to add 'non-religious beliefs' to the syllabus for primary and secondary pupils..."

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..."

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..."

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..."

Cultural Competence: Coming to a School Near You?  (19 October 2005)
"'Cultural Competence': the trendy term is appearing with greater frequency in education proposals and literature. Parents would do well to ask, 'What is it, and how could it affect my children's education from kindergarten through college?..."

Waging Jihad Through Education

Islamist Indoctrination in Our Schools  by Bill Muehlenberg
"Do you think the school system in a Muslim-majority nation would happily embrace booklets informing Muslim students how great Christianity is, or Judaism? Do you think any positive curriculum about non-Islamic faiths is found in Muslim-majority schools systems? Somehow I just don’t think so. Yet that is what our Western Islamophiles want done here. They want Western school kids taught all about how great Islam is, and how [Westerners] are just a bunch of racists. Yes, you heard me right. Some eggheads think our school children must learn how to properly love Islam while they properly loathe Western culture..."

How Global Jihad is Being Accomplished  by Bill Muehlenberg
"We are all aware of the obvious means by which Islamists are extending Islam throughout the world, and how they are attempting to establish a universal caliphate. The use of terror is a major part of jihadist expansionism. ... But there are other, more covert, ways in which ... Islamic expansionism is taking place. I refer ... specifically to the Muslim funding of Islamic studies in Western universities. Millions of dollars over the years have poured in from Arabic and Islamic sources to finance the study of Islam in the West..."

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..."

Teachers Physically Assaulted by Islamists  (26 February 2011)
"Classroom topics ranging from ham to the Holocaust have been known to inspire complaints, demands, and legal threats by offended Muslims, but sometimes even violence can erupt. Consider the case of Gary Smith, head of religious education at Central Foundation Girls' School in the Islamist stronghold of Tower Hamlets, a borough of London, England..."

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

Sex Education

More PC Mischief and Mayhem  by Bill Muehlenberg
"Whenever the forces of political correctness and a morally bankrupt mainstream media come together, you know there is going to be trouble, big time. Indeed, simply get a lesbian couple screaming ‘discrimination’ and you have created a media firestorm. The radical homosexual lobby has milked this story for all its worth, and the MSM is quite happy to play this up worldwide. Here is the story:.."

Just What is Behind These Suicides?  by Bill Muehlenberg
"It is quite common for homosexual activists to blame suicide in their ranks on ‘homophobia’. ‘If we would just be more tolerant and accepting of homosexuals, these rates would drop’ they claim. But are these claims in fact true?.."

Our Sexperts Living in Denial  by Bill Muehlenberg
"Another day, another bizarre proposal from our activist sexperts. These guys are on a crusade to sexualise our kids whether we like it or not. Today we have yet another call to have condom vending machines in our schools. The proposal has thankfully been met largely with disdain and disbelief..."

Our Children Under Siege  by Bill Muehlenberg
"Sadly, secular humanists seem to know what most [of us] don’t know: we are in a war, and the long-term outcome must always be kept in view. And the real trophy of the culture wars is our children, and our grandchildren. Thus the secular left is working overtime on its long-range goals, and is especially targeting our children..."

Herding Our Children Off to the Reeducation Camps  by Bill Muehlenberg
"It is a common feature of totalitarian states, such as the Communist regimes, to haul recalcitrants off to camps where they can be made to conform to official state ideology. The strict enforcement of group-think is a hallmark of such police states, where no deviation from the state line is tolerated. ... Sadly however the use of indoctrination, propaganda and brainwashing is not confined to atheistic totalitarian states. Increasingly the West is moving in this direction. The public education system is especially becoming a main source of politically correct propaganda and indoctrination..."

Schools, Values and the Family  by Bill Muehlenberg
"Early this year Prime Minister John Howard stirred up a hornet’s nest of indignation when he made some comments about the trend towards private education. He said the reason more and more parents are sending their children to private and independent schools is because of political correctness and a loss of values in public schools, among other reasons. The Prime Minister suggested that our public schools might be short of values while long on political correctness. While the teacher’s unions and many others heavily criticised the Prime Minister for his remarks, many parents were agreeing with him..."

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..."

VIDEO: What Sort of Sex Education Should Be Taught in Schools?  by Clement Okusi
"4thought.tv asks what sort of sex education should be taught in schools..."

Gay Penguin Book for Kids Tops US Complaints Chart  (28 April 2011)
"A story book about gay penguins, pushed with taxpayer funding to young children in the UK, is the most complained-about book in America..."

Equality Commission Wants Teachers to Ask Children If They Are Homosexual  (29 March 2011)
"A report commissioned by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) recommends that children should be asked if they are homosexual from the age of 11 and that records should be kept of those unsure or 'questioning' their sexuality. The report was conducted in an effort to encourage teachers, nurses and youth workers to start monitoring the development of young peoples' sexual identity..."

Teaching Christian Morality Gets Parents Jailed  (15 March 2011)
"Authorities in Paderborn, Germany, today sent two fathers to jail for refusing to allow the public school system to indoctrinate their children with a sex philosophy that 'if it feels good, do it.' Another student's mother already had been imprisoned for the same offense..."

Explicit Sex Ed Materials Pushed to Primary Schools  (9 March 2011)
"Shocking sex education materials are being pushed by public bodies for use in schools with children as young as five, a new report reveals. The report is launched today (Wed. 9 March) in the midst of a coalition Government review of sex education guidance..."

'Gay Lessons' in Maths, Geography and Science  (22 January 2011)
"Children are to be taught about homosexuality in maths, geography and science lessons as part of a Government-backed drive to 'celebrate the gay community'..."

How to Talk About Homosexuality  (13 October 2010)
"Carl Paladino, the Republican candidate for governor of New York, is in the media and political crossfire now for comments he made about homosexuality - perfectly reasonable comments. There are several problems here that need to be addressed..."

Attempts to Make Sex Education Compulsory  (2 September 2010)
"Labour MP Chris Bryant intends to propose a ten-minute rule bill on 8 September 2010 which would seek to make sex education compulsory in schools, threatening the freedom that parents currently have to withdraw their children from sex education..."

Parents Beware: The Effects of Teaching Same-Sex Attraction During Pre-Adolescence  (23 August 2010)
"Parents need to be aware that teaching children same-sex attraction and sexual practices during early stages of development is potentially harmful because children have not yet formed their identity. Those who push the homosexual agenda know that this is an effective time to indoctrinate children into such behaviour. This is especially true during the Latency period (from around age 8 until puberty at age 12-14), when many pre-adolescent children are repulsed by the opposite sex..."

Condoms for Children  (7 July 2010)
"Legal scholars and philosophers alike will be astonished to find that after decades of whether or not morality can be legislated, Provincetown School Committee took it upon itself to legislate immorality..."

Pediatricians Warn Educators Not to Promote Being 'Gay'  (8 April 2010)
"A professional organization for pediatricians has dispatched letters to thousands of school superintendents across the United States with a warning that promoting – or 'affirming' – the homosexual lifestyle to young children can damage them..."

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..."

Targeting Our Children - No. 4729  (30 March 2007)
"The war against our children never lets up. Various activist groups are continually aiming to get our children into their less-than-healthy lifestyles. Such attempts occur at a regular pace, and it is hard to keep up with it all. The latest attempt to hijack our kids comes from – no surprise here – yet another academic pushing an agenda..."

Another Reason to Reform Our Education System  (9 October 2006)
"It is not hard to produce solid reasons as to why our school system is in need of a major overhaul. On a daily basis horror stories can be found indicting our out-of-control education system. The stranglehold of political correctness, secular humanism and leftist ideology seems to grow by the day..."

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..."

Inside the Mind of a Killer  by David Catchpole
"Within just a few hours of this week's [Nov 2007] Finnish high school shooting (in which eight people plus the killer died), as the tragic details were relayed by news agencies around the world, it was soon apparent that there was already one clear difference between this tragedy and the one at an American high school eight years earlier..." 

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..."

How to Build a Bomb in the Public School System  by David Catchpole
"How could they shoot and kill their fellow students? That was the question asked following the shooting deaths of 15 people at Columbine High School in Colorado, USA, [in 1999]. Why would young people kill, destroy and bomb in a suicide attack? Their clothes may give a clue to the thinking of these teenage murderers..."

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

A Lesson in How Not to Treat Children  by David Starkey
"Anyone who watched the recent Channel 4 series Jamie's Dream School will have seen me getting a thorough dressing down from the headmaster for calling a pupil fat..."

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?..."

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..."

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?..."

'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

Assaults on Faith and Family - Part One: The UN Seizure of Parental Rights  by Berit Kjos
"Don't be deceived! The twenty-year-old Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has little to do with personal rights. It has everything to do with changing values and undermining the traditional family. ... The process started long ago..."

Assaults on Faith and Family - Part Two: Mandatory Training in Orwellian Thinking  by Berit Kjos
"Remember that proverbial frog in a pot of water? It finally died, since it didn't notice the slow-rising heat..."

Assaults on Faith and Family - Part Three: The Ominous 'Success' of Re-Education  by Berit Kjos
"The traditional Christian family has been a continual obstacle to the globalist vision of solidarity. And for over sixty years, the United nations and its mental health gurus have fought hard to eradicate those old 'poisonous certainties' that stood in their way..."

Mums and Dads to be Banned  by Bill Muehlenberg
"It had to come to this eventually. Yes, mothers and fathers are now taboo. At least calling someone your mum or dad is verboten. Nix. Not allowed. Out of bounds. Schools are being urged by a tax-payer funded booklet to never allow children to be so insensitive and bigoted again: they are not to call their parents mum or dad. Parent, yes, or guardian, But not that intolerant and prejudiced ‘mummy’ and ‘daddy’..."

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..."

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..."

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..."

Why Are Parents Banning School Books?  (27 September 2010)
"In the US more and more parents are pressing schools to withdraw books with bad language or sexual content. But should children's books be restricted in this way?..."

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..."

Who Controls Our Children?  (10 June 2007)
"The story of this film began almost twenty years ago, when a Pennsylvania boy came home from public school one day, and said: 'Mom, something weird is going on with this test they made us take in school today.' Being a concerned mom, she went to the school and asked to see the test. The school refused..."

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..."

Universities

All Must Have Tuition Fees  by Melanie Phillips
"Despite all the stürm und drang over the hike in British university tuition fees, ... the policy misses the real point by a mile. The reason for the hike is that the universities are broke; and the reason they are broke is that they are now processing (educating is definitely not the word to use in this context) vast numbers of young people who should not be at university in the first place; and the reason they are there is that it is considered ‘elitist’ (boo, hiss) to restrict university places to those who are suited to academic higher education, on the grounds that pretty well everyone is entitled to have a degree qualification..."

Anti-Christian Bigotry on Campus  by Bill Muehlenberg
"There used to be a time when universities were known for being bastions of freedom of speech in which openness to ideas and genuine intellectual inquiry were affirmed. But that is no longer the case at many Western campuses. Instead a stifling political correctness is curtailing open debate and unfettered learning..."

The War Against Free Speech  by Bill Muehlenberg
"This site has documented numerous examples of the secular left squelching freedom of speech for anyone it deems to be politically incorrect. Indeed, whole books have been written on how the censorship and suppression of freedom occurs routinely in the Western world, especially in our universities. The intriguing thing of course is that those who are doing all the heavy-handed Gestapo tactics are the ones who mouth off so much about tolerance, acceptance and inclusiveness..."

A Review of The Two Tasks of the Christian Scholar  by Bill Muehlenberg
"Edited by William Lane Craig and Paul Gould, [this book] ... reminds us that our universities and professors are the gatekeepers of ideas, and that they have a tremendous influence on every other aspect of life. If bad ideas come forth from our universities, then we will all be on the receiving end, because bad ideas have bad consequences..."

Our Campus Censors  by Bill Muehlenberg
"One of the great achievements of the West is the university, where the free exchange of ideas takes place, and various points of view can be thrashed out openly and without fear of reprisal or discrimination. At least that’s the theory, anyhow. For quite some time that was more or less the case. But in these days of political correctness, and the stranglehold of left/liberalism, it is getting harder and harder to have a genuine free flow of ideas on most campuses. Indeed, many Western universities are now places where a liberal education has given way to an illiberal education. The hegemony of the secular left is extremely hard to break through nowadays, and those who dare to dissent from the PC point of view do so at some considerable risk..."

Academia, the Left, and Islamo-Fascism  by Bill Muehlenberg
"The 1960’s revolutionary David Horowitz, who has gotten a bit more conservative in his old age, organised an Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week on American university campuses last week. Given what a hotbed of leftism, political correctness and intolerance most universities are, it took a lot of guts to pull something like this off. And by all accounts it was a real humdinger..."

Are our Universities Biased?  by Bill Muehlenberg
"This of course is a rhetorical question, much like, Is the Pope Catholic? Western universities have been hotbeds of radicalism and leftist ideology for some time now, certainly since the 60s, when they were deliberately targeted by the New Left, of which I was then a part. Following the advice of the Italian socialist Antonio Gramsci, we were then encouraged to march through the institutions of power and influence, subverting them from within. And the 60s radicals did a very good job indeed of doing just that..."

Academia and 9/11  by Bill Muehlenberg
"How have the universities grappled with the tragic events of 9/11? Have they learned anything? Have they had a change of heart? Have they given up on some of their radical ways? Not according to Harvey Mansfield. He should know. He lectures in government at Harvard University. And what is true of Harvard is true of most of our universities. At Universities, Little Learned From 9/11, is the title of an article he penned recently, reprinted in the Weekly Standard, September 14, 2006. In it laments that the strangleholds of political correctness, multiculturalism, leftist ideology and moral myopia continue to reign at Harvard and the academy..."

Hate Crime Legislation - Back Door to Censorship  by James Simpson
"An extension of the Hate Crimes law recently passed the House of Representatives which will essentially codify into national law the 'speech codes' that are smothering academic freedom on college campuses today..."

A Wee (Real) History Lesson

Nations, Virtue, Religion and Freedom  by Bill Muehlenberg
"Very few people would realise it, but there is a very real and vital connection between freedom, religion and morality; between liberty, faith and virtue. And perhaps nowhere was this concept so explicitly and strenuously promoted and championed than in America during the time of its founding..."

Freedom, History and Memory  by Bill Muehlenberg
"For both religious and non-religious reasons, history is vitally important, and it is imperative that we do not forget the lessons of history..."

Destroying the Foundations of the West  by Bill Muehlenberg
"The Judeo-Christian worldview was essential for the rise of the West. Without it the world would be a radically different place today. Most of the features that we now enjoy about the West – such as freedom, democracy, limited government, education and the universities, the rule of law, the rise of progress and science, human rights and separation of church and state – would largely be absent or greatly diminished if it were not for the rise of Christianity. Yet the West appears to be hell-bent on denying, eradicating or undermining these very foundations..."

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..."

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..."

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..."

A Cure for Our National Amnesia  by Michael Nazir-Ali
"It is both rare and welcome to hear an educating and educated speech by the Secretary of State for Education at his party conference. Michael Gove's at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, particularly the section on the curriculum in our schools, repays careful study. He is generally right in his emphasis on the rigorous study of traditional subjects rather than wasting time on what he calls 'pseudo-subjects'. ... It is, however, his comments about the teaching of history that are the most telling..."

The Fall and Rise of Human Violence  by Berit Kjos
"As centuries come and go, history occasionally reveals sudden, momentous changes that transform cultures in ways that defy human logic. One of these astounding leaps began about 400 years ago. It brought light into the darkness of the Middle Ages and safety to people bound by fear, superstition and tyranny. Historian Randall Roth summarizes what happened..."

The Frankfurt School and the War on the West  by Bill Muehlenberg
"The cultural and ideological battles raging around us do not exist in a vacuum, nor have they happened by accident. There are those who hate the West and want to destroy it and make it into their own image. Many groups and individuals are actively at work in this assault on the West. Many movements and groups can be mentioned, but here I wish to focus on just one. It has been hugely influential in undermining the West and bringing about cultural Marxism. Even though Marxism as a political force is greatly diminished, it is still alive and well in its cultural form. I refer to the Frankfurt School..."

The Frankfurt School: Conspiracy to Corrupt  by Timothy Matthews
"'Western Civilisation at the present day is passing through a crisis which is essentially different from anything that has been previously experienced..."

The Frankfurt School and 'Political Correctness'  by Michael Minnicino
"The people of North America and Western Europe now accept a level of ugliness in their daily lives which is almost without precedent in the history of Western civilization..."

About the Frankfurt School  by Dr. Gerald L. Atkinson
"Who in [the West] today is at work destroying our traditions, our family bonds, our religious beginnings, our reinforcing institutions, indeed, our entire culture?  What is it that is changing our [Western] civilization? Suppose you were to learn that nearly all of the observations made in this series of essays are completely consistent with a 'design' -- that is a concept, a way of thinking, and a process for bringing it about.  And suppose one could identify a small core group of people who designed just such a concept and thought through the process of infusing it into a culture.  Wouldn't you be interested in at least learning about such a core group?  Wouldn't you want to know who they were, what they thought, and how they conjured up a process for bringing their thoughts into action?..."     

A Brief History of Education. Part 1: Educational Thought  by Andrew Old
"One way of looking at education is as a battle of ideas. ... Sometimes this is seen as a conflict between traditionalists and progressives. I prefer to see it as a conflict between those who wish education to be rigorous and structured and those who wish it to be undemanding and ill-defined. The following is intended as a guide to the educational ideas that are shaping our current climate..."

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!..."

Socialization: Homeschooling vs. Schools  by Michael F. Haverluck
"Questions about inadequate socialization are often brought up as a means to disqualify homeschooling as a viable alternative form of education, but are the arguments valid?..."

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..."

On Being Salt and Light  by Frederick C. Foote
"As the homeschoolers of five young children, my wife and I occasionally find ourselves in conversations where salt and light comes up. ... we often hear how homeschooling may be deficient in at least one important respect - its failure to position our children where they can function on a daily basis as salt and light to their non-Christians friends..."

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..."

Homeschooling and State Education  by Bill Muehlenberg
"Modern, universal, secular education is largely taken for granted today in the West. But it has not always been in existence. Up until relatively recently in history, most schooling was done at home or by the churches. Mass, public education conducted by the state is a somewhat recent development. I have written before about the various dangers which may lie in public education. Mass education could simply be about the three R’s, which would be fair enough, but often it becomes a means of indoctrination and the promotion of various agendas. And this has not occurred by accident. Many have viewed mass education as a means by which the state can indoctrinate students and enforce its ideology..."

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..."

College From Home  by Shawn Cohen
"Instead of sitting through hours of humanistic instruction from atheistic professors, I studied from the comfort of my own home and on average completed semester long course in a few days or weeks..."

Hitler is Alive and Well in the Western World  by Don Hank
"Assuming you have now read the horrible stories about what happened to Christer Johannson and Michael Hickman, I need to say I have been getting a steady stream of such reports as these from Germany since I founded this website..."

Homeschooling and the War Against Children  by Bill Muehlenberg
"Children are our future. The way our children develop determines how society develops. And when ideological battles are being fought in a culture, children are the trophy. Those who can control the children will be able to control a culture. That is why totalitarian states always seek to get control of children, especially from very early ages. The totalist state knows that years of parental interaction with their children will drive a wedge between them and the state. Thus it becomes imperative to not allow parents to inculcate their beliefs and values in their children..."

The Case For Christian Education  by Bill Muehelnberg
"Up until around 175 years ago, most people were educated at home, or by the church. As such, public education is a relatively new phenomenon. But today it is the major means of education in the Western world. Sure, there are religious schools, private schools, and home-schooling, but most people attend public schools. Perhaps 50 or 100 years ago, this was not a bad thing, as most schools back then reflected the culture at large, and in most of the Western world, that culture was primarily Christian in nature. But times have changed, and secularisation has pushed out religion, making our schools – and everything else – not only devoid of religion but often quite hostile to it. Christianity is especially unwanted in our modern educational system. Secularist values, along with New Age nonsense, political correctness, and leftwing politics and ideology reign in most of our schools..."

Home-Schooling Parents May Face Criminal Record Checks  (30 November 2009)
"Parents who teach their own children at home must undergo criminal record checks, say Government education inspectors..."

If Home-Schooling is Good For Our Children it is For Us to Say  (19 October 2009)
"Government plans to regulate home-schooling must be rebuffed. ... In his book The Socialist Case, first published in 1937, Douglas Jay coined a now notorious observation that was once taken as gospel: 'In the case of nutrition and health, just as in the case of education, the gentleman in Whitehall really does know better what is good for people than the people know themselves'..." [NB. Please take the time to whizz through readers' comments underneath this piece. Most of them are excellent.]

Government Consultation on Home Education  (16 October 2009)
"The Department for Children, Schools and Families published a consultation on home schooling. ... Parents are responsible for ensuring that their children receive a 'suitable' education. The Government wants to usurp the role of parents and impose more governmental control, thus intruding upon families who choose to educate their children at home. Both the Bible and the law recognise it is a parent’s responsibility to educate their children, not that of the Government. Education is compulsory, but school is not. Parents can choose either to send their children to school, or to educate them at home. The Badman Report reviewed elective home education. In our opinion, the Badman Report makes disproportionate and unreasonable recommendations for compulsory registration and invasive monitoring of those families who choose to educate at home.  The point of most concern to all parents, especially Christian ones, is the proposal that those who choose to educate at home will have Government officials interview a child alone—without even a parent being present..."

Home-Schooling Must be Brought Under Government Control  (14 September 2009)
"An independent report, commissioned by the [UK] Government and published this year, recommends that home-schooling must come closer to the Government control..."

Home schooled Boy Grabbed by Police on Plane in Sweden  (7 September 2009)
"Christer and Annie Johannson are a Swedish couple from Gotland that attempted last year to home school their son Dominic, a bright and happy 7 year old, just prior to their leaving the country to take up residence in India. They made all the right moves, informing the school of their plans..." 

The Badman Report  (11 June 2009)
Report to the Secretary of State on the Review of Elective Home Education in England - by Graham Badman.

The Coming War Against Home Schoolers  (28 January 2009)
"I knew this was coming. The inflamed, all-seeing eye of political correctness, glaring this way and that from its dark tower, has finally discovered that home schooling is a threat to the Marxoid project, and has launched its first open attack on it..."

Social Worker: 'All Homeschoolers Get Psychological Evaluations'  (6 November 2008)
"The Smiths (name changed to protect privacy), an HSDLA member family in Miami, received an unexpected note on their front door from a social worker asking them to call the number on an attached business card. Little did they know, this was the beginning of a nightmare they would not soon forget..."

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..."
 

General News Items and Comments

Why Writing By Hand is the Right Way to Learn  (21 January 2011)
"Children who write by hand learn better than those who use a computer keyboard, scientists say..."

30,000 Pupils Branded as 'Racist' and 'Homophobic' Bigots: ... Even at Nursery  (17 January 2011)
"More than 10,000 primary school pupils in a single year have been labelled racist or homophobic over minor squabbles. ... Schools are forced to report their language to education authorities, which keep a register of incidents..."

Only One Child in Six Gets Five Good GCSEs as Pupils Switch From Academic Subjects to 'Soft' Courses  (8 January 2011)
"A Labour shake-up in 2004 gave pupils more scope to study non-academic GCSE equivalents – and these options have surged in popularity by 3,800 per cent. They include certificates in personal effectiveness, salon services and preparation for working life. Education Secretary Michael Gove wants schools to switch to a so-called ‘English baccalaureate’ comprising English, maths, a science, history or geography and a language..."

What We Could Learn From the Victorian Classroom  (2 January 2011)
"The class is full of ten-year-old children standing behind the desks. Their teacher, 'Miss Perkins”, introduces herself and lays out her expectations. The children are obedient and perfectly behaved..."

Yes, EMA Should be Scrapped - Not to Save Money but to Save Our Kids  (15 December 2010)
"One of the most damning Labour legacies in education is EMA (Education Maintenance Allowance). When I say the system 'keeps poor children poor' because of what the 'well-meaning liberal does them', this is exactly what I mean. We imagine a sea of hobbling children, desperate to learn, but who instead of going to school are sent to the workhouses to bring home 20p so that their mothers can buy bread. What better way to help these poor souls than to provide them with a weekly allowance that will prevent their evil parents from sending them out to work in order to feed the family?.."

The Last Week is Proof that Chaos in Our Classrooms Leads to Chaos on the Streets  (13 December 2010)
"If you should ever ask a young person in parts of the developing world whether or not the state should pay for them to go to university, they would likely look at you and wonder what you meant. They do not have the sense of entitlement that our young people do. ... What do we teach our children at school? Do we stretch them? Challenge them to exceed everyone’s expectations? Of course not! We preserve the status quo. We 'take care' of them. We push them through school, teaching them the bad habits of swearing, shouting, having little respect for others, and demanding to have their own way. Sound familiar to what you saw on TV last week? We look after them with EMA payments, while they prance around doing little work and end up with a couple of D grades. Then we push them through to some Minnie-mouse university in the hope that someone else will look after them. No wonder the students are in shock. Be responsible for themselves? The concept is completely alien. In fact, I don’t know why we’re all surprised by some of their behaviour in the streets. This is how some of them behave in school! Throwing things at authority, shouting, swearing, spitting, attacking, participating in a mob-mentality, refusing to do as they are asked, demonstrating a complete disregard for their fellow human beings. As a teacher, ones sees this type of behaviour several times a day..."

How Can it be Right That an 11-Year-Old Boy Can Call Me a F****** Cow, and There's Not a Thing I can Do?  (11 December 2010)
"Last month, an 11-year-old boy walked late into my class and proceeded to disrupt it so badly that I could not teach. He threw pencils at his classmates, called out when I asked him not to, refused to work and disrupted all the other pupils until finally I had to have him removed from the classroom because he called me a 'f****** cow'. His actions were totally unprovoked by anything I had said or done  -  he said it because he knew he could get away with it..."

Who Will Speak These Home Truths Now?  (18 October 2010)
"When deputy headteacher Katherine Birbalsingh took to the podium at the Tory Party conference earlier this month to speak about schooling, her remarks produced two dramatic results..."

Teacher Who Attacked School Chaos in Tory Party Conference Speech is Forced Out  (17 October 2010)
"Katherine Birbalsingh, 37, received a standing ovation for her speech at the Tory Party Conference two weeks ago in which she revealed the appalling indiscipline in the nation's classrooms..."

I Won't be Silenced While Our Children are Betrayed by Schools  (8 October 2010)
"The British education system inhabits a land of make-believe. The public is constantly told that standards are rising, reflected in annual, record-breaking improvements in exam results. But as a teacher with more than a decade's experience, I know all this is a grotesque illusion..."

Ex-Marxist Head Wants to Axe Bad Teachers and Drive Out the Unions  (6 October 2010)
"A deputy headmistress delivered a damning indictment on state schools yesterday, saying she hoped education reforms would smash teaching unions..." 

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..."
 

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"The Campaign for Real Education was formed in 1987 to press for higher standards and more parental choice in state education. It is not affiliated to any political party and is funded entirely by voluntary donations. Formed in 1987 by 14 parents and teachers, all of whom were concerned about falling standards and damaging changes in state education which were being forced through without any evidence to support them. Since then, the Campaign has been contacted by thousands of parents, teachers and academics with similar concerns. We now have a nationwide network of supporters and important links with like-minded people in other countries."

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."

Education Conversation
"One of the most important decisions you'll ever make is who will educate your children. Education is not just learning to read but learning what to think about what you read and how to choose worthwhile reading material. It's about learning to discern truth and falsehood in what you read. Education is not just learning the facts of science but learning why they matter and how to apply them ethically. Education is not just learning dates and events from history but learning to apply the lessons of lives well lived and lives poorly lived - and how to tell the difference. Who will teach your children the meaning behind the facts?..."

Katharine Birbalsingh
"Katharine Birbalsingh is the teacher who exposed the failings of the comprehensive school system at the Conservative Party conference this year. Her speech can be seen here. She is now looking for a job. Katharine has been teaching in inner London for over a decade and loves children. This is a resurrection of her popular blog, To Miss with Love,..."

Scenes From the Battleground
This blog "is intended to be an honest description of what is going on in secondary education in this country. The title of this blog indicates that I genuinely believe that education has become a battleground, or more accurately several different battlegrounds. Students who don’t want to study, managers who don’t want to manage, and even teachers who don’t want to teach are all too common obstructions for anyone that actually believes children should be learning in our schools. These everyday obstacles are combined with an entire education system that at every level doesn’t seem designed for education. For that reason it is often a fight to get to the point where the kind of teaching and learning, which would have been taken for granted less than a generation ago, can even take place. This blog will detail both my personal experience of fighting the battle to teach and also my take on the system that has turned our schools into battlegrounds..."

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..."

Campus Watch
"Campus Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum, reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North America with an aim to improving them. The project mainly addresses five problems: analytical failures, the mixing of politics with scholarship, intolerance of alternative views, apologetics, and the abuse of power over students. Campus Watch fully respects the freedom of speech of those it debates while insisting on its own freedom to comment on their words and deeds."

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..."

Is There A Difference Between Public and Christian Education?
"Most educators, and far too many parents, have bought into the myth that education can be 'religion-neutral'. They're convinced that teachers can train the mind without shaping attitudes, behaviour or spiritual beliefs. The company line goes something like this: government schools will supply the raw data - the 'neutral' facts - and parents can add the value system at home. Here's the problem. Even in schools that try their level best to achieve academic objectivity - and there are precious few of them - the goal is never reached, because neutral education is impossible..."  Discover Christian Schools

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.

Education Otherwise
"School is not compulsory - education is. So what is 'home education'?; do you have to be a teacher?; what about socialisation?; do you have to take exams?; What is it REALLY like?; can I do it?..."

The Christian Schools' Trust
"The Christian Schools’ Trust is a group of independent Christian schools working together aiming towards putting God back in His rightful place in the centre of the process of education. There are around 50 member schools who vary greatly in their profiles and backgrounds but our common vision draws us together in strong friendships and partnership. Although each school is completely autonomous in its government we work together through CST in many ways to enhance the effectiveness of our education.
CST has three broad aims: 1) To lay foundations of Biblical Christian truth in the area of education, 2) To develop networks that support and strengthen Christian schools of quality, 3) To serve others by promoting Christian education across the UK as well as in other nations. You can find out more about What we do and where our Member Schools are..."

The Cedars School
"The Cedars School is a small independent school with a family atmosphere for pupils between 3 and 16 years of age.  It was opened in 1969 to provide Christ-centred Biblically based education in Rochester, Kent.  Our aim is to equip children with skills, knowledge, understanding and attitudes so that they have a rounded education and are able to take their place in the world as disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ."

Alliance for the Separation of School and State
"We believe parents, and not the state, should be in charge of their children's education. That control may take many forms and levels of involvement, but the state will never be part of the picture. If this seems like an impossible idea, consider that 8 million children already learn free of state control. We're not starting from scratch here. The snowball of educational independence is already rolling. If you’re a parent, we offer not only the chance to learn how the government came to control education, but also ideas, resources and encouragement to help you on your road to educational freedom, as well as true stories of others who have already chosen educational freedom.  Leaders, friends, relatives, concerned citizens and freedom lovers will also find lists of ideas, resources and links to help them as they encourage others to choose independence."

Exodus Mandate
"Exodus Mandate Project is a Christian ministry to encourage and assist Christian families to leave government schools for the Promised Land of Christian schools or home schooling. It is our hope that this fresh obedience in educating our children according to Biblical mandates will prove to be the key for revival in our families, churches and nations."

Home Education Network
"Our web site aims to be a one stop shop for home educators or anyone wishing to find out more about their legal right to home educate. ... [W]e hope you will find all the information you need to help you on your Home Educating journey."

Rescue Your Child
"The purpose of RescueYourChild.com is to inform parents of their God-given right to avoid sexual indoctrination and other problems in the public schools by homeschooling or enrolling their children in church schools or private schools. Our years of researching legislation and representing parental rights have brought us to the conclusion that public schools are increasingly violating children's innocence. RescueYourChild.com and SaveCalifornia.com are supportive of pro-family teachers and administrators in the government school system. But the chronically dysfunctional public school system and immoral laws forced on children, teachers and school districts are unacceptable. Therefore, we are urging parents to act now to rescue their sons and daughters from the perils of government schools."

Take Your Kids Out of Public School
"This website is a call, especially to Christians, to remove your children from the pagan institutions known as public, or government, schools. Evidence will be given to show how dangerous these institutions are spiritually, morally, and academically. If you don’t agree with everything you read here, I encourage you to do the research yourself and pray about it. If you do agree, I hope you will take action and begin home “schooling” or enroll your children in a bible-based private Christian school. ... We started homeschooling in 1994 and have never looked back or questioned that decision. It is a very freeing experience to be in charge of your children’s education and not under the rule of the school system. Someone once said that children were not meant to be raised in herds. God has entrusted each of our children to us to raise for His glory and His purposes. I pray that you will not turn them over to a system that has removed all references to our Creator..."

Sometimes Its Peaceful: Home Education in England: The Politics
"The System' takes my breath away with its blatant audacity sometimes: removing our children into full-time daycare at an ever earlier age, smearing elective home educators as potential child abusers just because we resist that process, ever-lengthening the school day and the number of years pupils must spend there - then campaigning for parental involvement in education! It's a joke, isn't it?"

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..."

Materials
Some books/videos/DVDs we would especially recommend:

Brave New Schools: Guiding Your Child Through the Dangers of the Changing School System
"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, [the author] demonstrates how myths, feelings, and imagination have replaced facts, logic, and history in out classrooms. This book 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."
http://www.crossroad.to/text/1-books.htm          amazon.co.uk          amazon.com          usedbooksearch

The Underground History of American Education
"The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn't real."  This book "will take you on a journey into the background, philosophy, psychology, politics, and purposes of compulsion schooling."
amazon.co.uk          amazon.com          usedbooksearch

Censorship: Evidence of Bias in Our Children's Textbooks
"In 1983 [this author] systematically examined ninety widely used elementary social studies texts, high school history texts, and elementary readers to answer the questions: Are public [state] school textbooks biased? Are they censored? ... [This book] lays out the facts for anyone concerned about the future of the next generation. More than that, it serves as a handbook for parents, educators, and others who want to do something about it."
amazon.co.uk          amazon.com          usedbooksearch

Why Johnny STILL Can't Read
"For fifty years the vast majority of American schoolchildren have been taught to read by the look-and-say method rather than by traditional phonics. Because of it, says [this author], the majority of today's American adults are handicapped readers. ... His wide-ranging research shows how educators have conducted a continuing defense of this teaching method despite hundreds of scientific studies proving its ineffectiveness. ... this book is must reading for parents, educators, administrators, and public officials."
amazon.co.uk          amazon.com          usedbooksearch

How to Tutor: How to Teach Phonics, Arithmetic and Handwriting
"The failures of the public [state] school system are all around us: functional illiteracy, no discipline, hatred of study. [The author] witnessed these failures first-hand as a public [state] school teacher. .. [In this book] he shows how parents - teachers - can prevent educational disaster before it happens to their own children. ... [The author] provides parents and teachers with a complete instructional program: step-by-step lesson plans in the three Rs."
amazon.co.uk          amazon.com          usedbooksearch

Sex Education or Indoctrination? How Ideology Has Triumphed Over Facts
"During the late 1960s and early 1970s, a network of government-funded pressure groups began to pursue an agenda covering eugenics, population control, sexual and family law reform, sex and health education, and children's rights. ... The most insidious 'reform' has been the elimination of parents from decisions that vitally affect their children's lives. ... [This] can only be understood in terms of the ideology embraced by those who wish to subvert the family by replacing parental influence with the authority of the state."
famyouth.org.uk          amazon.co.uk          usedbooksearch

Preparing Children for School and Life
"No teacher can teach on any subject without at times giving a viewpoint on moral and spiritual matters. Every person knows what he thinks is right and wrong and has a basis for thinking so. Also, every person has the desire, more or less, to defend that position. ... [Teachers] cannot help but influence the thinking of children. ... Whether [they] do it consciously or unconsciously [they do] it."
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All Must Have Prizes
This book "charts the flight from literacy and knowledge that has taken place in Britain's education system from its nursery schools to universities. [The author] explains how the relationships between teachers and pupils, parents and children have been undermined. For many people, teaching a body of rules - in maths, grammar or family relationships - has become taboo. Systematic teaching has given way to subjectivity, approximation and guesswork. The result has been a rising tide of illiteracy and ignorance, a battered teaching profession and parents under siege."
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