From the book, What Are They Teaching Our Children? by Mel & Norma Gabler:
"The Human Engineering Laboratory has found from many years of testing that:
'The one thing successful people have in common...[is] high vocabulary...
Vocabulary will determine how high they climb...Brilliant aptitudes aren't
worth much without words to give them wings.'
They also found that:
'The...rise in violence correlates with the drop in vocabulary...crime and violence
predominate among people who score low in vocabulary.' "
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Government's invasion of your parental rights...
Here is a link to a 30 minute video detailing the government's encroachment upon the family and what you can do to try to put a stop to it.
http://www.overruledmovie.com
http://www.overruledmovie.com
Thursday, November 17, 2011
A nation of non-readers...
"We are becoming a nation that does not read. Those who do not read, do not think. Those that do not think will have their thinking done for them." - Dr. B.E. Masters, Ph.D.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
The amount of time it takes to become totally literate is less than you think...
John Taylor Gatto, former public school teacher with 26 years teaching experience and winner of New York State's Teacher of the Year Award for 1991, said this:
"There is abundant evidence that less than a hundred hours is sufficient for a *person to become totally literate and a self-teacher. Don't be panicked by scare tactics into surrendering your children to experts.
Teaching must, I think, be decertified as quickly as possible. That certified teaching experts like myself are deemed necessary to make learning happen is a fraud and a scam. Look around you: the results of teacher-college licensing are in the schools you see."
- from his book, DUMBING US DOWN, copyright 1992.
*I assume Mr. Gatto is referring to older students (perhaps middle school age and older - - - not young children) who may be learning to read for the first time.
"There is abundant evidence that less than a hundred hours is sufficient for a *person to become totally literate and a self-teacher. Don't be panicked by scare tactics into surrendering your children to experts.
Teaching must, I think, be decertified as quickly as possible. That certified teaching experts like myself are deemed necessary to make learning happen is a fraud and a scam. Look around you: the results of teacher-college licensing are in the schools you see."
- from his book, DUMBING US DOWN, copyright 1992.
*I assume Mr. Gatto is referring to older students (perhaps middle school age and older - - - not young children) who may be learning to read for the first time.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Recommended Reading...
THE SOCIALIZATION TRAP - AVOID THE PITFALLS OF AGE SEGREGATION
by: Rick Boyer
WHAT ARE THEY TEACHING OUR CHILDREN? WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT HUMANISM AND TEXTBOOKS IN TODAY'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS
by: Mel & Norma Gabler
(While the authors may not have written this book to promote homeschooling, it does shed light on what our kids are really learning in the public schools.)
DUMBING US DOWN - THE HIDDEN CURRICULUM OF COMPULSORY SCHOOLING
by: John Taylor Gatto (former public school teacher with 26 yrs. teaching experience and New York State Teacher of the Year for 1991)
by: Rick Boyer
WHAT ARE THEY TEACHING OUR CHILDREN? WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT HUMANISM AND TEXTBOOKS IN TODAY'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS
by: Mel & Norma Gabler
(While the authors may not have written this book to promote homeschooling, it does shed light on what our kids are really learning in the public schools.)
DUMBING US DOWN - THE HIDDEN CURRICULUM OF COMPULSORY SCHOOLING
by: John Taylor Gatto (former public school teacher with 26 yrs. teaching experience and New York State Teacher of the Year for 1991)
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