Comments on: The role of ‘educators’

By: StR WAKE UP MR SOWELL

StR WAKE UP MR SOWELL — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 02:22:53 +0000

Please, Please, Please….Do not be part of the Propaganda Matrix, we would love to have you on our side. I can not believe that Well Educated Intelligent Economists do not tell the American People that the Federal Reserve system (The United States Central Banking System) is owned by International Bankers such as the Rothschilds and The Rockefellers (when the shareholders of the Banks composing the Fed are traced and by the leverage of entities behind the scenes, that actually have the controlling interests). EVERYONE PLEASE READ THE BOOK…..Web of Debt by Ellen Brown and you will understand the biggest problem our country faces. Web of Debt by Ellen Brown available on wwwamazon.com

By: Zinn in this Documentary (StR)

Zinn in this Documentary (StR) — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 02:11:09 +0000

The American Ruling Class, James A. Baker III is scary in this see…..*******https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZASg-CjhkjE

By: freedomgal

freedomgal — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:47:19 +0000

You folks can argue all you want about this book and its particulars..but the bottom-line message of this article is that we are educating our children out of their ability to be an intelligent individual while covertly stripping them of their freedoms.
Yowant to talk books.? Read “Common Core” by Orlean Koehle….Then we’ll talk.

By: rlw895

rlw895 — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:46:32 +0000

Tom: But look at Sowell’s example, Howard Zinn’s “A Peoples History of the United States.” I was not aware it was being used as a textbook in any public high school. He seems to think it is, just because it’s sold millions of copies. That book has been around in various editions for a long time. It’s age-appropriate probably for AP American History or at the college level, along with other readings. What’s wrong with that? I’ll admit to not having looked at textbooks at the K-12 level for a while. If Zinn’s book was assigned to 8th graders, I might have a problem with that. But is that what Sowell is suggesting? What IS he saying? And why can’t he find a more appropriate example? One of my favorite history books is “Lies My Teacher Told Me” by James Loewen, so my view is not that our standard history textbooks fail to convey conventional wisdom, but that they still do too much, and conventional wisdom is wrong. Sowell is promoting going back to teaching jingoism, when we’ve made strides to escape it. That’s what I find scary. What I find refreshing is he has something to complain about. Maybe our texts are better than ever.

By: Tom Chalk

Tom Chalk — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 05:16:06 +0000

RLW: Your comment re: Sowell’s column is undoubtedly the goofiest thing I have ever seen or heard from you. Sowell was right on the money when he characterized what is happening in the realm of textbook publishing across America today and for the past decade. You of all people should know this. Good grief, Charley Brown! Have you and Kirchubel lost your minds?

By: rlw895

rlw895 — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 04:02:16 +0000

Flip over what Sowell is telling us not to do, and try to figure out what he would have us do. Because he claims freedom of thought is indoctrination the “wrong way,” he would have us indoctrinate the “right way.” Scary.

By: Mike Kirchubel

Mike Kirchubel — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:16:22 +0000

Tom also does a huge disservice to the French in WWII by basically saying they had lost the will to fight by reading too many books. What a laugh, especially for the French Resistance and the Free French fighters forming beyond the Vichy government. Were they too stupid to go to school? Germany’s superior, modern air force and Panzers and France’s antiquated Maginot Line, built to fight the previous war were more to blame than Tom’s books. Take a nap, Tom – You must be tired.

By: Mike Kirchubel

Mike Kirchubel — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:00:27 +0000

Zinn’s book was meant to fill-in the gaps. Our nation’s history isn’t as neatly packaged as most history books would have you believe. These are things that actually happened in the U.S., not fantasy. I’m sorry that the facts don’t fit-in with your little word view, Tom, but that doesn’t make him wrong. Zinn provides interesting background to the flow of h