By Matt Blum

It doesn’t take advanced knowledge of statistics to figure out that, if every parent thinks his or her children are above average, close to half of them are wrong.  So it shouldn’t come as a surprise to any parent that, despite their kids’ talking early or producing amazing art or asking questions you can’t answer or what-have-you, their kids are not necessarily gifted.

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by Linda Schrock Taylor

On my recent flight home from Florida, I sat next to a very interesting and articulate gentleman. We talked nonstop, only pausing for shallow breaths, as we discussed the flaws and faults of public schooling. As many may well imagine, once that topic is opened – time stops for me. I explained the “jobs project” infrastructure of our schooling fiasco, as well as the deceptive “educational” decor of the buildings – designs that rise, just like the false fronts that topped buildings in old Western towns, providing cover for evil-doers, both then and now.

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Homework is an important part of a child’s learning process, it’s also a great way for parents to be involved and keep informed about what’s being taught in class. The best way to ensure a productive learning experience

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Linda Schrock Taylor
LewRockwell.com

I suspect that I hear some grumblings and objections, but really, once one learns to approach spelling logically; to think of each difficult word as an opportunity to study word structure and origins, the process becomes fun as well as mentally stimulating. I will not claim that all frustrations will end, but they should greatly lessen. If all else fails, at least you may learn to smile despite tightly clenched teeth.
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By David Gelernter

How can I teach my students to write decently when the English language has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Academic-Industrial Complex? Our language used to belong to all its speakers and readers and writers. But in the 1970s and ’80s, arrogant ideologues began recasting English into heavy artillery to defend the borders of the New Feminist state. In consequence we have all got used to sentences where puffed-up words like “chairperson” and “humankind” strut and preen, where he-or-she’s keep bashing into surrounding phrases like bumper cars and related deformities blossom like blisters; they are all markers of an epoch-making victory of propaganda over common sense.
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by Vin Suprynowicz

Last week, we again delved into John Taylor Gatto’s invaluable text The Underground History of American Education, citing his summary of the career of George Washington.

The point of Mr. Gatto – a former New York city and state (government) Teacher of the Year – when he summarizes the careers of men like Washington, Franklin, David Farragut, Thomas Edison and Andrew Carnegie, is twofold. First, the careers of these men – by no means all child geniuses, by no means all the offspring of wealthy aristocrats – demonstrate that literacy, fame and high character have often been achieved in America without the benefit of more than a few years’ formal schooling. That is to say, the insistence of today’s educrats that anyone deprived of a full 12 years locked up in their compulsory propaganda camps is doomed to a lifetime as an illiterate loser is self-promoting nonsense from those anxious to perpetuate the largest make-work “jobs” program in history.
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