Assumptions
Education is in a dreadful state.
By observation, we see that younger people and educational institutions are anti-free speech and socialistic in their outlook. If you look a little further, you find out that liberal schools and professors a have abandoned traditional concepts and values in favor of ‘woke” ideals. To a critical thinker, the inevitable conclusion is the death of democracy and the surrender to communism.
Statistical, we’re declining. Test scores, which are quite empirical, show that we have slipped from first to thirty-sixth place worldwide.
So, it’s not some wild, come-from-nowhere, all-of-a-sudden opinion. It’s based on actual facts.
Here are some of the assumptions that form our thinking:
Education is a way of preparing someone to survive well and it is a vehicle for extending our culture into the future.
The basic function of the educational department and its affiliates should be information and standardization.
Education has four major phases:
Literacy
Critical Thinking
Expression
Advanced Learning and Specialization
The school board is a representative body, not an autocratic management entity.
Parents should have final approval authority.
All decision making should be local.
Teaching materials are more effective when the goal or objective is known, it is free of misleading content and is moving the student towards a known skills or knowledge.
Educational institutions are entitled to and should also be limited to a fair profit.
Education is a public (private schools excepted) service and should be transparent in everything including compensation for teachers and all other employees.
Make education less complicated and return to traditional methods that worked.
In addition to preparing students for life, special focus should be given to anything that contributes to the economic element of the culture ranging from basic literacy to advanced training in technical or specialized areas.
Over time, we let today’s system of education develop. Whether we’re suffering from systemic apathy, modern naivete or severe bamboozling, we are the ones who let the fox in the hen house and now we have to figure out how to get him out.
Authorities and experts have developed a pedagogy that is built on a lot of unproven and speculative theories masquerading as intelligent and sophisticated science.
Students, in their natural state, are curious and willing to learn.
Willingness can be diluted or erased by force, duress, lies, misleading information, distortion, hiding the truth, exaggeration and by being told WHAT to think instead of HOW to think.
The vast majority of people are doing everything they can to make education and schools productive and enjoyable. There is a very small percentage of people who are causing difficulties. There is an additional group of people who unwittingly fall for their “bad” logic.
There is a small faction of people who think they can change the world by indoctrinating students thereby swaying public opinion to support their cause.
When presented with factual, unaltered data, people and students are usually curious and receptive and willing to learn. Information that is false in some way or is enforced in some way is not very well assimilated
