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Book Recommendations

18 Sunday Dec 2022

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I updated the Education Resources page by adding The Death of Education by Eric Olsen. It’s dead accurate about the state of the “schools,” I recommend it, and I will eventually review it.

Here I must confess that I am just getting around to reading another book already on my list, Teaching the Trivium by Mr. and Mrs. Bluedorn. Previously, I’d read excerpts from the book and various articles by and about the authors. However, now that I am actually getting into their work, I must MOST HIGHLY recommend it! I will, in time, give a full review, one that hopefully does it justice. This book is simply titanic. The table of contents alone is worth more than many other decent books and it makes more sense than the entirety of the failed, wicked education establishment. Don’t wait for me; get it now.

Higher Nonsense, Lower Education

07 Wednesday Dec 2022

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Professor Bruce Thornton pretty much nails the collapse of higher liberal education in the US.

Those days are gone. Today our educational institutions are grubby, rent-seeking businesses, and propaganda organs for illiberal, incoherent ideologies based on the “higher nonsense” that has captured “higher education,” and from there trickled down into K-12 schools. No wonder the majority of the products of those failed institutions, like Generation Z, support letting murderers go free, censoring speech that challenges their “stock notions and habits,” joining the anti-carbon “green” cult, and subjecting children to drag-queen shows and inappropriate sexual curricula.

Leaving aside the fact the K-12s were DOA from their inception, and removing the Judeo-Christian non sequitur, renders his analysis almost perfect. I’m sure Senator Walker will lead the charge to reverse this curse. Oh, no, wait…

Good Degrees for Good Jobs

28 Monday Nov 2022

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Like most other advice from Boomers, that line is a load of crap. More and more employers cease requiring useless college degrees.

Companies such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Delta Air Lines Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. have reduced educational requirements for certain positions and shifted hiring to focus more on skills and experience. Maryland this year cut college-degree requirements for many state jobs—leading to a surge in hiring—and incoming Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro campaigned on a similar initiative.

U.S. job postings requiring at least a bachelor’s degree were 41% in November, down from 46% at the start of 2019 ahead of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to an analysis by the Burning Glass Institute, a think tank that studies the future of work. Degree requirements dropped even more early in the pandemic. They have grown since then but remain below prepandemic levels.

At the lowest depths of the fake pandemic, the required figure was down to 1/3rd of available jobs. And it’s not just the allegedly tight economy, but also the fact that companies realize, unlike the GD Boomers, that most (MOST) college degrees are worse than worthless. Plan accordingly, kids.

A Few Tweaks

14 Monday Nov 2022

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The AJC reports most ‘Muricans love their children’s indoctro-grooming centers.

Over the past 18 months, a vocal and vigorous collection of community members alleged school districts peddled smut in their libraries, blasphemed U.S. history in their classrooms and incorporated liberal dogma in their policies. They commandeered local school board meetings and warned board members to expect rebellion at the ballot box as parents sought dramatic change.

Turns out most parents prefer a few tweaks to total transformation.

The May primaries, June runoffs and last week’s general election confirmed something that rabid public-school critics won’t admit: Most parents like their public schools. No, parents don’t think their schools are perfect, but they are not in favor of scorched earth reform.

That’s because most adults in the USSA are faithless, uneducated, low-IQ heathens. Tom Ironsides pretty much concluded, at the end of THE SUBSTITUTE, that the “schools” are pretty much what most people want them to be. They may, in fact, even be a little better than most people deserve. However, for good people and their children, these luciferian temples of doom are among the worst forms of child abuse. This is one of the bright dividing lines of post-modernity. There is no tweaking evil.

The New College Try

11 Friday Nov 2022

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US colleges are in trouble, because they are overpriced, over-attended, and for the most part useless. So, it makes sense that, at a time of declining applications and revenue, they’ve taken to preemptively attempting to goad young people into wasting time and money. If this story looks like collusion, then there’s a good reason why. Even if they paid people to attend, it still wouldn’t make much sense.

Deutschland Zerstören

04 Friday Nov 2022

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Rejoice! Berlin may soon become the educational Detroit of Europe!

German students in the fourth grade are increasingly worse off in mathematics and German, with the negative trend playing out in every single German state, according to a new study published by the government. However, this drop-off in performance, which has hit its worst levels ever, is most dramatic among children with an immigrant background.

The “IQB Education Trend for 2021,” presented by the Institute for Quality in Education (IQB), shows that more and more elementary school students are failing to achieve even the minimum standards set by the Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs in German and mathematics, which could have serious consequences not only for Germany’s education system, but also for the country’s future social and economic prospects.

Although the study does not attribute any one cause to the precipitous drop-off in standards, it points to immigration and coronavirus lockdown policies. The study also acknowledges that the worst results are from students with an immigrant background. An astounding 38 percent of all children in elementary schools in Germany have migrant backgrounds, pointing to the massive demographic shift already underway in the country. In cities like Hamburg, the majority of students have a migrant background.

The country’s radical immigration policy in place since 2016 has resulted in millions more migrants in the country, and many of those migrants have either brought their children or had children since they arrived in the country. Proponents of mass immigration once claimed that these new arrivals would be future “specialists,” such as doctors, lawyers, and engineers. However, the reality is that many of them arrived in Germany illiterate even in their own languages. In turn, many of them have children who also suffer from illiteracy.

While this might sound bad, we are assured it is only indicative of the greatest strenff manifesting. Do doctors and engineers really need to read or add? No, of course not, and to suggest the contrary is simply wrong. We are reliably informed that these fine new Germans, much better than the old editions, will radically boost the precious GDP through what is popularly called “magic.”

Deutsche Männer, Sie haben einen schlimmen Notfall in Ihren Händen. Handeln!

Western Education: Full Blown Satanism

01 Tuesday Nov 2022

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Andrei Martyanov gets it about the “schools,” in addition to much else.

What is being done with Western education is beyond description–it totally degenerated into a full blown satanism.

Such was the call of Tom Ironsides in THE SUBSTITUTE, which has been revised and improved, and shall be re-released in the Christmas-New Years timeframe from Shotwell:

Towards the end of class, a boy asked Tom a simple and direct question: ‘Why are our schools so bad?’ …

He looked the boy in the eye and without hesitation said, ‘Because they’re run by feminists, queers, and communists.’ … Later, he almost kicked himself: ‘“Feminists, queers, and globalists” would have been more accurate. Or, just “satanists…”’ He let it go.

Tom “let it go,” momentarily due to exhaustion in the heat of battle. Our problem is that we have let it go on far too long.

Muh NAEP Decline

25 Tuesday Oct 2022

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The “Nation’s Report Card” looks as bad as ever. LOL!

Though it appears Georgia minimized learning setbacks more than other states did, it ended up in the same place as the rest of the nation. The state’s average scores, which include only public schools, were within a point or two of the national public school average in every area.

Overall, it means COVID-19 brought the rest of the country down to Georgia’s level.

And the U.S. educational system was by no means a beacon before COVID-19, Cardona said. “The pandemic simply made it worse. It took poor performance and dropped it down even further.”

The US “education” system is doing what it was intended to do. The hoax only shone a bright light on the insidious evil. If you keep your kids in this premeditated evil, if you willingly tolerate the evil, then you are joining and committing the evil. Do not do that.

Seldom Read a Book

18 Tuesday Oct 2022

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Alexander Zubatov offers a very good essay on the decline of US colleges and universities. Find it at The American Conservative.

Why is American higher education such an abject failure? Our system of higher education simultaneously and confusingly aims at two entirely distinct goals—and, as such, is discharging neither of them especially well. It is, on the one hand, supposed to prepare us for the labor market by arming us with practical skills, and on the other hand, supposed to turn us into Renaissance men and women, who have a deeper understanding of our world. But the most popular major in college today is “business”—a nonsense major that neither educates anyone in the broad sense nor prepares them for anything in particular in the narrow sense of the workaday world. Christopher Lasch observed that most college students “get little training in writing (unless ‘Commercial English’ is an acceptable substitute), seldom read a book, and graduate without exposure to history, philosophy, or literature.”

Read the whole thing. Note that the T.S. Eliot quote came from a work from the era immediately after World War II and was not limited to “higher” education, at least as it exists today. It was bad then. It’s worse now.

Also, he’s 100% correct – “business” is a nonsense major almost completely devoid of education. And what a shame to wait until college to become acquainted with (or not) history, philosophy, and literature. It’s not an accident that those three subjects, and many others, have been erased from nearly all levels of modern/post-modern education.

Surviving Your “Parentectomy”

06 Thursday Oct 2022

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Here’s a fitting follow-up to yesterday’s column about NYU. Read Michelle Malkin’s new article on the erasure of parents in the post-American US.

It’s happening. It’s been happening. Parents, you are being replaced.

Where? Right under your noses, in your neighborhoods, in your public and private schools, and in your local children’s hospitals.

How? Under the guise of health, safety, compassion, tolerance, diversity, intellectual superiority and, of course, the public good.

Notice that she wrote “your public and private schools.” It’s the whole system that is evil, not one part of it. Also, kindly overlook some of the Goody Two-Shoes civ-nattery. When it comes to dealing with satanists who are literally maiming and killing our children, there really is no place for threatening “violence, intimidation, and physical harm”. A millstone is not a threat. Threats are hollow, usually meaningless words. 1,000-pound rocks are as heavy and as real as the problem they can easily drown in the depths of the sea.

Stop participating in this Tower of Babel, Gomorraic society. Get your kids out of it at whatever cost.