John, that's one of your best ever. I'm thinking of plagiarizing it, but very cleverly, and passing it off as my own ideas. I will, of course, give you 10 percent of anything I make from it. But seriously, the only disagreement you and I have concerning this issue is the school choice thing. C'mon, man! I thought you believed in letting the free market separate the winners from the losers! You are just slap-your-face wrong about school choice, but don't despair...we're all wrong about something. The problem, of course, is that we don't know what we're wrong about. Public education in America is socialism, which is why it was destined to eventually fail, which it has. It began failing shortly after I came through the system. At this point, it's time to take it off public life support. There is no justification for billing the taxpayer for something that isn't working and isn't going to work. You should know...my oldest grandson, Jack, is one of Trump's special assistants (to Congress). He's in the Oval Office every day, posing for pictures with Elon's kid. I'm trying to figure out how to leverage my nepotismal rights to get an audience with Trump and Elon and try to persuade them to turn the DOJ on the mental health professions, investigating them for RICO violations. I'm not kidding. Two things need to go: Psychology included as "health care" (what a joke!) and public education (what a tragedy!). Thanks for allowing this rant. I hope it's disruptive. John Rosemond, Parent Guru to the Stars
Schools are teaching neither knowledge nor skills. Students have never been so lacking in knowledge as they are today. Without a base of Core Knowledge, critical thinking is an exercise in futility. In his book, “How Schools Work,” former Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, and I paraphrase, wrote “we don’t need rote knowledge anymore when we have the Internet and Wikipedia for that.” This has been the attitude of Educrats since the 1920s and it’s the primary cause of our educational deficiencies, that and the senseless preoccupation with the whole word approach to learning to read. You cannot be a critical thinker without a head filled with knowledge that can instantly be summoned, sifted and analyzed as part of the critical thinking process. This is the universal opinion of cognitive scientists. If you have to Google each discrete bit of information, you are hopelessly lost, and the thought process is constantly interrupted. While acquiring this information is a lifelong process, the first six or eight years are critical to acquiring a body of Core Knowledge that can be marshaled in the upper grades. That said, a course in critical thinking, including logic and logical fallacies would be of enormous benefit to any student in high school. To neglect the Knowledge component would do inordinate damage to young minds. This is why reading scores on the NAEP and state test scores haven’t budged in years. We are graduating students with heads filled with mush, as Professor Kingsfield once exclaimed to his freshman contracts students.
In my opinion, in order to retain information ..the first subject young children should be taught. How to eat right starting in Kindergarten. They would be more receptive. They could teach their parents. As someone who found it very difficult to remember, as a child..I thought that i was stupid. Years later, when I got into the study of nutrition...I found out that I didn't have the nutrients as a child that my brain needed in order to retain information. When I went back to college, after getting into nutrition and obtaining the nutrients my brain needed....I got the top grades in the classes. I took.
The distinction made between skill and knowledge should be as plain as day but it get obscured by those that either wish to protect the cabal or those that simply do not pay attention. Thank you for this. Worth sharing far and wide!
Kathy: Yes. Further there are a lot of claims made by the education establishment that they are properly teaching valuable skills, but on closer examination that is simply not so.
John, that's one of your best ever. I'm thinking of plagiarizing it, but very cleverly, and passing it off as my own ideas. I will, of course, give you 10 percent of anything I make from it. But seriously, the only disagreement you and I have concerning this issue is the school choice thing. C'mon, man! I thought you believed in letting the free market separate the winners from the losers! You are just slap-your-face wrong about school choice, but don't despair...we're all wrong about something. The problem, of course, is that we don't know what we're wrong about. Public education in America is socialism, which is why it was destined to eventually fail, which it has. It began failing shortly after I came through the system. At this point, it's time to take it off public life support. There is no justification for billing the taxpayer for something that isn't working and isn't going to work. You should know...my oldest grandson, Jack, is one of Trump's special assistants (to Congress). He's in the Oval Office every day, posing for pictures with Elon's kid. I'm trying to figure out how to leverage my nepotismal rights to get an audience with Trump and Elon and try to persuade them to turn the DOJ on the mental health professions, investigating them for RICO violations. I'm not kidding. Two things need to go: Psychology included as "health care" (what a joke!) and public education (what a tragedy!). Thanks for allowing this rant. I hope it's disruptive. John Rosemond, Parent Guru to the Stars
John: I have always supported School Choice, so not sure why you think that's wrong!
Schools are teaching neither knowledge nor skills. Students have never been so lacking in knowledge as they are today. Without a base of Core Knowledge, critical thinking is an exercise in futility. In his book, “How Schools Work,” former Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, and I paraphrase, wrote “we don’t need rote knowledge anymore when we have the Internet and Wikipedia for that.” This has been the attitude of Educrats since the 1920s and it’s the primary cause of our educational deficiencies, that and the senseless preoccupation with the whole word approach to learning to read. You cannot be a critical thinker without a head filled with knowledge that can instantly be summoned, sifted and analyzed as part of the critical thinking process. This is the universal opinion of cognitive scientists. If you have to Google each discrete bit of information, you are hopelessly lost, and the thought process is constantly interrupted. While acquiring this information is a lifelong process, the first six or eight years are critical to acquiring a body of Core Knowledge that can be marshaled in the upper grades. That said, a course in critical thinking, including logic and logical fallacies would be of enormous benefit to any student in high school. To neglect the Knowledge component would do inordinate damage to young minds. This is why reading scores on the NAEP and state test scores haven’t budged in years. We are graduating students with heads filled with mush, as Professor Kingsfield once exclaimed to his freshman contracts students.
In my opinion, in order to retain information ..the first subject young children should be taught. How to eat right starting in Kindergarten. They would be more receptive. They could teach their parents. As someone who found it very difficult to remember, as a child..I thought that i was stupid. Years later, when I got into the study of nutrition...I found out that I didn't have the nutrients as a child that my brain needed in order to retain information. When I went back to college, after getting into nutrition and obtaining the nutrients my brain needed....I got the top grades in the classes. I took.
Barbara: yes, basic nutrition is something all children should be taught, at an early age.
The distinction made between skill and knowledge should be as plain as day but it get obscured by those that either wish to protect the cabal or those that simply do not pay attention. Thank you for this. Worth sharing far and wide!
Kathy: Yes. Further there are a lot of claims made by the education establishment that they are properly teaching valuable skills, but on closer examination that is simply not so.