No wonder that liberal politicians, mostly lawyers, pull their children out of public education when they are forced to relocate their families to major centers around Washington, DC. The same goes for establishment Republicans like Mitt Romney. It might seem strange that they spend their days in the halls of congress as architects of the…
Education strategy has been too narrowly focused on an academic, classroom-based approach which fails to address the need to provide a path to employability for many. Despite decades of efforts to reform education, and billions of dollars of expenditures, the harsh reality is that America is still failing to prepare millions of its students…
Without freedom of thought, schools are nothing more than insidious indoctrination centers, little better than those operated by the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany. Of course, teachers in these schools assumed their viewpoints were avant-garde, offering a new moral direction for dealing with age-old conundrums in human culture. The liberal establishment is firmly…
Imagine a farmer just before the Great War pulling a plow with his mule. Here comes a noisy city dweller, belching smoke in his newfangled horseless carriage. “Up to no good. Should be at work, ” the farmer might think. It would be unthinkable that this new contraption would turn back the horse-and-buggy era,…
Sunday School today can provide what American education USED to provide for children. The New England Primer once educated children not only in reading and writing, but also taught them a strong moral code by which to live their lives. Here is a sample of what kids got in early American PUBLIC schools: An Alphabet…
