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Miss Carolina - America Destroyed by Design

posted September 4, 2007 - 6:15am
Miss Carolina - America Destroyed by Design

Alex Jones talks about the dumbing down of the general public and how 1 out of 5 young people cannot locate the U.S. on a map.


Website: http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/video_miss_car...


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Montessori

The prepared environment of Montessori can be a wonderful environment for learning and the hands on manipulatives are great for the hands on concrete teaching of math concepts. That said, take a really close look at the Montessori school. True Montessori is extremely structured and rule bound and leaves little room for divergence from the rules or for differences in learning style. It does not seem that way at first glance because it allows each child to learn at their own speed. It does not however, allow each child to learn in their own WAY. The child must learn in the Montessori way. It can be a wonderful education if it is a good fit. One of my sons thrived in Montessori. He was comfortable within a framework of rules and boundaries. My other son considered rules and boundaries to be challenges that must be tested and he would have considered it to be unbearable torture to have been trapped in the Montessori system. I am not talking about behaviour here, but about learning style. The idea that there was only one way to arrive at an answer was just not believable to him and he, who will be 21 next week, would still be sitting there with some of those blocks convinced he would eventually find a way to get more than the alloted number of blocks into the cube. He therefore would never have mastered the skill and would never have moved on to the next skill. Montessori is very concrete sequential and just does not always work well for the random abstract child, especially the stubborn ones. However, many of the Montessori schools are not pure Montessori and have relaxed some of the rules to accommodate a wider variety of learning styles and are more a platform for self paced multi sensory learning. Angel

Many parents today...

I completely agree, Angel, that parents MUST take a more active role in the daily lives of their children. My wife and I will be putting our son in Montessori once he is of school age; until then, we are reading parenting books and how to begin the Montessori experience at home while he is a toddler. The resources are there for those parents wanting to make the effort. One thing that struck me as I was reading your comment is that many parents today are products of the same (mis)education system that allegedly educates their children today. So, they are already starting off with a handicap because they won't always know what needs to be fixed when they do get involved because they were not shown themselves and don't have any basis for comparison. Sort of a vicious cycle. I was (looking back I can say it as such) fortunate to have been physically, mentally, and emotionally abused at the hands of my alcoholic stepfather, so I grew up challenging authority and questioning what other people believed. Going into my marriage and the prospect of being a father, I understood that I wasn't given squat for tools from my mother and stepfather, so I knew I had to educate myself and fast. This voyage of discovery has led me to many excellent books and deep conversations with my wife about how to best raise our son. This is one of the primary reasons I became a stay-at-home. _______________________________________________________ "Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it doth prosper, none dare call it treason." -Sir John Harrington, 1561-1612

Education or Parents

Having gotten two young men educated through a combination of private school, church school, public school, and home school, it is my opinion that the greatest culprit in our educational crisis is lack of parental involvement. The primary difference in education in the public school system and the private sector is that parents are involved in the entire process in the private sector. Private schools do not give parents a choice. They must be involved in all aspects of the students life. They must supervise homework, attend teacher meetings, show up at school if called, conference about grades on request, provide volunteer hours at the school, at fund raisers and any other time they are asked. They are held responsible for the student's behaviour. In short, they are required to be responsible parents. On the other hand, public schools get minimal support of any kind from many parents and are expected to provide academic, moral and ethical standards for the students in what is basically a vacuum. Too many parents have abdicated the responsibilities of parenthood and expect the school system to parent their children. Schools have never provided it all... Parents have always had to fill in the gaps, enrich and supervise their children's school performance and behaviour..... until now. It is little wonder that the schools can not do it all. Angel

Should We Be Surprised?

I for one feel sorry for Miss SC because she is being mocked for being human. If we are going to hold a simple beauty contestant to such standards, yet we allow such unscrupulous politicians as George Bush and Hillary Clinton dictate to us how we should live our lives, what does that say about our own choices? I say we should endeavor to live our lives as an example to others and stop being so judgemental. But, I digress. I understand only too well the implications of the public (mis)education system's dumbing down of this and future generations. Abraham Lincoln said, "The philosophy of the classroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next." Vladimir Lenin knew this. Adolf Hitler knew this. What is happening in Washington is most certainly an example of this. Bush, who is a dry drunk and known to have abused cocaine throughout his life but is still allowed by the American voting public to have his finger on the trigger that could start a nuclear holocaust, cannot find his butt with both hands, yet we lament that 1 in 5 children cannot find the U.S. on a map. Should we be surprised? _______________________________________________________ "Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it doth prosper, none dare call it treason." -Sir John Harrington, 1561-1612

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