Tammy’s Reviews > The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America: A Chronological Paper Trail > Status Update

“… Contrast liberal arts education with what he calls, vocational training, the sort that prepares one for employment … the danger, as he sees it, is the pursuit of training at the expense of education… it is the liberal arts, not vocational training, that preserve civilization by producing reasonable men and responsible citizens…”

“…school’s a concept & not a place… not confuse schooling with education. The school will be the community, the community the school. Students, parents, & teachers will make certain that John Dewey’s sound advice about schooling whole child is not confused with nonsense about school providing the child’s whole education… Teachers no longer will be victims of change; we will be the agents of change.“

“By perpetuating the school as an instrument for social control, and by dichotomizing teaching from learning, educators forget Mark‘s fundamental warning in his third thesis on Feuerbach: ‘the educator should also be educated’.“

“… prison inmates are protected from subjection to behavior, modification techniques and workers and government office are protected from subjection to training programs which are violations of their religious liberties, but prohibition of the use of behavior, modification techniques on normal, American school children is nonexistence.“

“The social ‘sciences’ anti psychology, have yearned for the respectability of scientific disciplines, & have touted themselves as science for many decades. However, both fields emerged from the same humanistic cesspool of the last century.… When psychology & social sciences were made part of close cause-and-effect system, along with physics, astronomy, & chemistry, it was not only God who died. Man died.“

Skinner thought that a person could be controlled by the environment-psychologically facilitative ‘ school Climate’-to do what is best for him. Bad behavior should be ignored, according to Skinner. Good behavior should be rewarded. A very good method of dog training!“

“… After 12 years of rewards for correct answers, will their children ever have the courage or be motivated to do anything on their own- to take a what is left of their ‘principles’ is challenged? If this method is implemented in all schools of the nation… Our nation will become a nation of robotic drones, responding to whomever wishes to control them for whatever purpose.”

“… the holistic approach to education through the inclusion of social sciences in the education- a clear departure from academically oriented, educational pursuits into intrusive areas totally unrelated to education.“

“The Office of Education writers further say along with these responsibilities should be included that of stimulating and participating in the process of formulation, examination, and reformation of the goals of our society in terms of educational objectives.”

“… the basic admission of the office [of Education] to “promote the cause of education“ remains unchanged since its establishment in 1867… This means that the report will be largely implemented on the administrative level without congressional action and approved.“ (1960)