Today is the Education Special. We are first joined by Anita Hoge, Karen Champagne and Angela Alef, followed by Charlotte Iserbyt.
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Communism Lite… In this show we identify the root cause of this reprogramming as well as encourage ways you can get involved in taking back the education system.
Germany has long shown far greater foresight than the United States in the investment into science, infrastructure, and alternative energy — investments that are now giving the country huge returns as a leading economic system. With a decision of Lower Saxony, the German have now shown precisely how serious they are about keeping the country as one of the most educated in the world: they have eliminated all college and university tuition. The Germans view education as not just a right, but an essential component for continued growth.
There are critics to educational subsidies who raise some good-faith issues of how such payments can eliminate pressure to make efficient choices and actually drive up costs. I actually see value to students paying some tuition. However, with tuition sky rocking in the United States and falling enrollment numbers, the United States is heading to a reckoning in the future for our lack of investment in our workforce. While we have spent trillions of dollars on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (and just renewed our commitment to the later to keep forces in the country), we have continued to cut environmental, scientific, educational, and infrastructure investments. The inevitable result is that we will continue to drop in our competitiveness in the world market and the future economy. Every other country is investing heavily in education while the United States continues to be distracted by shiny objects with more immediate political benefits for politicians. Continue reading
“In the ethical sense, propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused. It may be used to overadvertise an institution and to create in the public mind artificial values. There can be no absolute guarantee against its misuse.” E Bernays
Part 10 of Evans’ 13-part mini-series dissecting Edward Bernays’ seminal text ‘Propaganda” focuses on Chapter 8 (‘Propaganda for Education’), which alludes to themes of standardized testing, the dichotomy between theoretical and practical knowledge, and the general limitations of Educational systems.
Did Edward Bernays’ contempt for ‘ordinary’ people influence his views on Education? Find out in our latest episode!
Education is not securing its proper share of public interest. The public school system, materially and financially, is being adequately supported. There is marked eagerness for a college education, and a vague aspiration for culture, expressed in innumerable courses and lectures. The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving the kind of attention it has the right to expect in a democracy.
It is felt, for example, that education is entitled to more space in the newspapers; that well informed discussion of education hardly exists; that unless such an issue as the Gary School system is created, or outside of an occasional discussion, such as that aroused over Harvard’s decision to establish a school of business, education does not attract the active interest of the public.
There are a number of reasons for this condition. First of all, there is the fact that the educator has been trained to stimulate to thought the individual students in his classroom, but has not been trained as an educator at large of the public. Continue reading
The Common Core educational initiative, according to its official website, strives to provide “a set of high-quality academic standards in mathematics and English language arts/literacy.” Its critics, however, see it very differently.
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This opposition, led by professors of education, mathematicians, former members of the Department of Education, the largest teachers’ union in the country, and countless other professionals, is seeking to derail this educational agenda before it can fully take over schools across the United States.
Why are these groups opposed to Common Core, and what is Common Core’s real purpose? Find out more in this week’s BoilingFrogsPost.com Eyeopener report.
In this third installment of the YOUR GOVERNMENT series, Virtual President Bill Whittle discusses ways to improve our ailing educational system.
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