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COLUMN: Teaching The Trivium: A Review

25 Wednesday Jan 2023

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Teaching The Trivium: A Review

 

Dear readers, our topic for today is one of the most important books of this century: Teaching the Trivium: Christian Homeschooling in a Classical Style, Harvey and Laurie (RIP) Bluedorn, Trivium Pursuit, Muscatine, Iowa (2001). If my review drives home nothing else, then I must at least emphasize that this book is critical to those who either have young children or who intend to have young children. It’s also important for those with older children, or grandchildren, along with those who have no children, or those who only want to further their own intellectual development. It is a cogent defense of and general plan for preserving high Christian Civilization. 

Do not send children to schools. Let that stand as my second critical point. Please take all contrary excuses and burn them. I am angered by the fact that generation after generation of our children (this includes you, your children, your grandchildren, your parents, and even your grandparents) have been, are being, or will be misled or forced into the same trap. Most people do not realize what they’ve missed and what we’ve collectively lost. Teaching the Trivium sheds a bright light on this tragedy while offering a wonderful escape from it. 

When I finally sat down with the book and started thumbing through it, I was struck by how comprehensive the Table of Contents alone is, and how much the relayed organizational wisdom differs from what passes for institutional educational doctrine. For purposes of commentary, I reproduce a small segment, for Chapter One:

(Bluedorns, Trivium, page 11).

Contrast any part of the foregoing with what passes for valuable systemic pedagogy in, say, fag queen pedo hour, a horror with a purpose even conservatives finally begin to notice.

Perhaps the greatest veritas of this partial page is the line: “All true education must begin with the revelation of God.” The entirety of the text is a roadmap for implementing proper Holy education. One of the tell-tale Hasbara one-star reviews I read at Amazon, while subtly chastising Christianity, stupidly lamented the lack of a comprehensive, easy, ready-to-go curriculum. “Breaking out of the mold” means just that; this is a task that no formal syllabus is capable of adequately presenting or fostering. As a guide, it is an extensive map of a long, meandering road – one well worth the effort. The Table of Contents is fourteen pages, and it sets a better cursory direction than any other work I have ever seen. It covers everything from the Christian formation of the nuclear family to fueling the family by having children, to raising children, to shielding children from the evil of the world, to properly coaching children through grammar, logic, and rhetoric, to successfully sending children forth on their most important earthly endeavor – having and raising more children. The whole matter is a testament to God’s plan; the “conventional-minded” detractions I’ve read are also, negatively and indirectly, testaments to His intention. 

The Bluedorns note, on page 34, “Education is for a purpose. If the purpose does not have God in view, then it is  godless education, and it will eventually produce godless results.” They also maintain, correctly, that the only real education begins with, and consistently maintains, the revelations of Almighty God. One may be aware that in the USSA, God has been banned from schools and from the larger society, and the result has been a kind of hell on earth. The book also does a masterful job of clarifying and interweaving the Greco-Roman classical model of learning with that of fundamental Christianity. In that context, their wise view of the purpose of education does not so widely differ from Old Tully’s: “The purpose of schooling is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.” For a century and a half, our wicked, stupid culture has dispensed with all such wisdom, with our schools becoming the tyranny of the present.

With very few exceptions, homeschooling children, under the authority of the family, is not only the best way to educate the young, but it is the only way that fulfills various Biblical commandments. That may be the key takeaway from the book, along with the general “how-to” structure of the curriculum. It offers a one-size-fits-one approach; the exact Bluedorn route might be slightly different from mine, as mine might be from yours. This is fine and, in fact, great for us, but it is anathema to the luciferian status quo. And make no mistake, the schools, by design, are satanically evil. They were always that way, literally instituted to turn people into wage slaves, dumb down the population, terminate the family unit, and destroy Christian Western civilization. They have been extremely successful, an Enlightenment gift that keeps on killing. They cannot be fixed unless the fixing involves a Caterpillar D9 and an ample quantity of fire. But my own experience, and likely the reader’s, is almost exclusively set within the confines of the unnatural, anti-traditional, and unproductive K-12 classrooms. We are to be forgiven then, or at least a little lenient with ourselves, as we think about the schools and about saving future generations from them. 

To properly assess the wickedness of the schools is to ultimately dismiss them. Perhaps the best words to that end belong to Anthony Esolen. “There are only two things wrong with our schools: everything that our children don’t learn there and everything they do.” Esolen, Out of the Ashes, page 68 (another must-read). The Bluedorns partly refer to this as teaching trivia instead of the trivium, coddling along with pre-packaged nothing facts rather than teaching the elemental processes of thinking. This maleducation is a grievous sin. It also fails even by its own pitiful metrics.

The cat is out of the bag that the USSA’s school systems produce results, in all areas, far below other developed, or even developing countries – even as compared to foreign systematized schools. George Carlin summed it up well when he said “they” only want people who are “just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept [all the Carlin-Esque explicatives]”. Again, the schools have not failed in their intended purposes. They have worked almost perfectly. And that near-perfect working literally kills real learning and any notion of legitimate education. The Bluedorns have a subsection about this phenomenon called “Regressive Learning,” pages 97 – 98. They’re not alone.

The late, great John Taylor Gatto went into some depth with this lurid concept in his 2009 book, Weapons of Mass Instruction (read it too). Gatto noted, as early as 1990, that homeschooled children were five to ten years ahead of their state-abused peers. Things have become much worse since then. In addition to noting the disparity and that compulsory schooling indisputably lowers things like literacy rates, he focused on a little-known university study about university studies (the UCONN study_. Read all about “Another Inconvenient Truth,” pages 37 -38, and how roughly half of the colleges in the USSA teach nothing and the other half force negative learning on their victims. 

I’ve added to this sad observation, elsewhere, by tracking mathematical failure, in a Georgia school system, from elementary (14% math proficiency), to middle (11.9%), to high school (7%). From end to end, our worse-than-useless schools reverse learning. Frequently, the longer a child is in school, and the more he is instructed, the less he will know. 

Something like eighty to ninety percent of US schoolchildren are doomed to languish in evil government-run schools. Roughly ten percent (my hasty estimate) attend private schools, of one degree of value or another (most increasingly dreadful as they conform to public expectations). Around five to ten percent of our kids, the homeschooled champions, receive one degree of real education or another. I once said that the C19 Hoax was the best thing that ever happened to the schools because it temporarily closed them. No education is better than maleducation! And, happily, a few more parents woke up and started allowing their children to learn. Still, the hyper-majority of them continue to send their precious young off to indoctrination and grooming centers. For that, they should perhaps be horse-whipped. Or, perhaps, forgiven. They either don’t understand the importance of education, or else they just don’t care.

But the other side does care about homeschooling if malice counts as caring. The nefarious educrats, most of whom deserve to be burned at the stake, know that the valid alternative of home education not only makes them and their evil work look like what it is, but they also know that homeschoolers, like latter-day monks in little, quiet monasteries, hold the potential to carry the seeds of civilization through the spreading fires. Therefore, the acolytes of the devil’s enlightenment hate with a passion the ordinary Christian families who properly raise and teach their children. These low, crawling Deevs make war on noble homeschoolers. Know their intentions and actively resist them.

Chapter two is an exposition of why the family, and certainly not the state, has genuine authority to educate children. Subsequent chapters explain what, exactly, that entails, along with how to go about doing it. For most of us, this is foreign territory. For instance, while we may associate classical grammar with Latin instruction, too many of us would neglect Greek. I, for one, was somewhat surprised by the logical and forceful arguments for including Hebrew studies as well. 

The recommended course of instruction is broken down by age and ability levels, and also by sex differences. The book assumes that some or most parents will not have anything but a rudimentary understanding of what they are teaching their children. Rather than viewing this deficiency as an obstacle, it is presented as a great opportunity, with the adults gaining a real education alongside their children. As many autodidacts have discovered, it is never too late to learn. The Bluedorns note that as many as three generations of homeschoolers may be required before parent instructors are masters of the material they present. Happily, those who started early are now one generation into the new era. May many more follow the trailblazers. 

The Appendixes are almost 200 pages of relevant articles and resources, beginning with The Lost Tools of Learning by Dorothy Sayers (1947). In short, there is something for everyone within these immaculate 600+ pages of encouragement and wisdom. Some of it may appear unusual, but all of it is unusually beneficial. Several myths, even as held by general homeschool advocates, are dispelled. For instance, my understanding of the theory of “un-schooling” was misplaced, barring, I still suppose, exceptional circumstances. Read chapter ten to understand why. And there are so many more topics even the intelligent and curious might not have independently fathomed. 

Personally, I have already taken one such lesson to heart: “Protecting a Child in the Library”, page 325: “Libraries have become dangerous places for children. The covers alone on some books on display are very wicked.” This was observed over a decade before the pedo queers in dresses and clown makeup first polluted the library assembly rooms. But it was observably true, just as to the book covers, and it was so at the beginning of this century as well as at the end of the last one. Therefore, I have resolved that no book cover of mine, regardless of subject, shall ever appear risque or salacious, to say nothing of appearing “wicked.” I am proud to say that no existing cover of mine risks contributing to this problem, though I had never reflected on the possibility; however, having now reflected, I intend to keep it that way. The odds are that no matter who one is, one will find something of interest and value, even if it is something as mundane as my example. If one happens to have young children, then the odds are one will be walking into a goldmine with Teaching the Trivium. I still have never developed a rating system, therefore I will merely mark this book as an absolute must-read. Read it!

And, if one has a little extra time, then I have another book to recommend – and it’s a short one: Christian Nationalism, Andrew Torba and Andre Isker, GAB AI, Inc. (2022). It’s not perfect, but it is one heck of a statement in defense of Christendom in the post-modern age. Among other things, it provides a list of the official state religions, through time, of the several sovereign American States (one will note that they all fell away by the latter half of the 19th century when the unofficial religion of the US Empire was instituted), and a rebuke of the heretical nonsense of the “Judeo-Christian” idea. 

Read, read often, and teach your children a love of reading. Deus vult.

Deo vindice!

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.

COLUMN: Homeschool Or Hoax

29 Thursday Jul 2021

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Homeschool Or Hoax

 

If I had to guess, and this is just a guess, well-reasoned but inexact, then I’d say that only around .01% of US government schools are worth not burning down. It’s probably 1% of US private schools. Almost all of them are anti-education, anti-human, anti-freedom, anti-civilization, anti-Western, anti-White, and anti-Christian.* Almost all of them are run, directly or indirectly, by feminists, homosexuals, communists, and other globalist satanic trash. They are worse, much worse than useless. They are utterly destructive and evil, being far beyond reform. 

So it is that I take this opportunity to thank, in a very narrow context, the Fauci-Gates-DARPA-DOD-CIA-SIS-Mossad-CCP axis of darkest evil for the Sars-HIV-mRNA “Coronavirus” hoax pandemic, war, and war crimes. You are, all of you, bound for hell, but the public did derive one benefit from your malevolence. I’m sure it was unintentional, but you bastards managed to do something novel in all the ruinous history of post-modern society – you closed the damned schools! 

I wrote about this same subject, with some statistics and then-current news, over a year ago: The Coronavirus Hysteria May Be The Best Thing That Ever Happened To The Schools. That was and is a great one – please read or reread it, now. I closed by admonishing intelligent, decent people to build something better. Guess what? 

They did!

The associated presstitutes reported a Census finding that the prevalence of homeschooling (aka, education) increased from 5.4% of US households in the spring of 2020 to 11% for the 2020-2021 school year. That means that somewhere around 6 million American and USian children had the chance to learn last year. That’s more children than attended private schools and about an eighth of the number of children tortured in the government’s concentration camps. Hooray!

The results varied by region and by demographics though all generally moved in the right direction. Over a quarter of Alaskan kids learned last year along with almost a fifth in Florida. Some areas with the absolute worst “schools,” like Detroit, saw a huge jump in education. Blacks leaped from a dismal 3.3% rate of education to 16.1%, the largest increase by race. The new rates for Hispanics, Asians, and Whites are, respectively: 12.1%, 8.8%, and 9.7%. While a majority of American and USian children are still locking into the devil’s system of idiocy and slavery, this improvement is monumental.

Let’s hope and pray it not only lasts but expands. Because of the hoax, the “schools,” government and private, simply abandoned the people. Accordingly, for once in a century or so, many of the people took a good look around and then took independent action. The POW camps masquerading as academies will continue their stupidity and wickedness – just read a newspaper wherever you live. The great hope is that the people will continue their newfound trend of intelligence and responsibility. 

Much of last year’s gains may turn out to be transient, with less-than-dedicated parents allowing their offspring back into the system, lured and lulled by a variety of promises, lies, and threats. However, many will stay out, stay in the books, so to speak, and stay ahead of the curve. This bodes very well for the continuance of civilized society regardless of what happens to the remains of the United States this decade and beyond. All the people, not just the rescued children, stand to benefit.

For parents struggling with a sense of not knowing what they’re doing and wondering whether they’re doing the right thing, I say this: anything (or even nothing) is better than the alternative and there really is no way to mess up home education. As I’ve written before, all students learn differently and possess different levels of ability. Some go farther. Some move faster. Some find it easier. Let the natural course of learning unfold as it does, driven in large part by the interests of the subject child and with as-needed adult guidance. There’s a program for just about everyone and all of them are radically better and less expensive than what the luciferians offer in their prisons.

For the evil-mongers fretting about how to deal with this rebellion, I say this: Go to hell. We know you’re worried. You should be because you created a disaster and now, at long last, even ordinary people are noticing it. We know you’re eventually going to use your government violence in an attempt to ridicule, diminish, or ban legitimate education. We know you would happily have everyone else suffer, struggle, and fail. Know too that we’re ready for you, we’re going to fight you, and we’re going to beat you. Badly. In fact, your time is already running short. Tick, tick, tick…

Good people, let’s keep this great movement going steady! Thank you to all the wise parents out there. Congratulations to all the happy, learned children. Three cheers for knowledge, wisdom, and cultural refinement.

*Over the past few years, I have noticed a distinct collapse among many private schools, some costing around $50,000 per year. They are “going woke.” That, of course, means they are headed the same way as the government’s camps, except they cost more (generally, the pricier the school, the worse the problems). 

Homeschool Connections

27 Wednesday Jan 2021

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I just added Online Catholic Homeschooling resources to my general Ed page. Check it out.

Mission

We connect your Catholic homeschool to the experts.

And in the spirit of the New Evangelization and in the light of Pope St. John Paul II’s teaching on the domestic church, Homeschool Connections seeks to use technology to enhance a homeschool family’s educational efforts by providing them the needed resources to achieve this endeavor.

Goals

We aspire to help parents with the education of their children in two respects: (1) to provide free, informative webinars for parents; and (2) to provide affordable and engaging courses from University-level professors and practitioners for students.

Yes, Anthony Esonlen is on the staff, thus validating the program!

Homeschooling is the Traditional Way

15 Tuesday Sep 2020

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For ages, almost all children were educated in the home or in small neighborhood groups. The mass (public) “school” movement is a recent Austrian industrial aberration designed to create little human worker robots. Who would have thought that a viral hoax would be its potential undoing? The Atlantic takes a city slicker-centric look at the nearly-forced rise in homeschooling:

Homeschooling organizations and consultants have faced a deluge of panicked parents frantic to find alternatives to regular school. Some families hate the idea of their kids sitting on Zoom for hours at a time. Others worry about exposing family members to the coronavirus or seeing schools close suddenly after a surge in cases. Although some of these parents will likely put their kids back in school once the pandemic is under control, homeschooling advocates see this period as an unlikely opportunity to evangelize their way of life, which they describe as more flexible, creative, and adaptable to each student than traditional school. Homeschooling families, which included roughly 3 percent of school-age children in the United States in 2016, have lots of different reasons for wanting to educate their own kids. But they’re united in a common assessment: They want out of the traditional system. The question is whether COVID-19 will cause a temporary bump in homeschooling as parents piece together their days during the pandemic or mark a permanent inflection point in education that continues long after the virus has been controlled. Some families may find that they want to exit the system for good.

Good! Good! Good!

Here’s a heuristic, if such things still hold water: look at the schools, public and private, through the lens of hoax mask enforcement. Any group of people who are so stupid or so malicious as to go along with the lies at this point has no business educating anybody – certainly not your child.

Homeschooling Rising in Popularity

01 Friday Jun 2018

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For good reasons.

One is avoiding public school culture and violence.

After a gunman opened fire on students in Parkland, Florida, the phones started ringing at the Texas Home School Coalition, and they haven’t stopped yet.

The Lubbock-based organization has been swamped with inquiries for months from parents seeking safer options for their kids in the aftermath of this year’s deadly school massacres, first in Parkland and then in Santa Fe, Texas.

“When the Parkland shooting happened, our phone calls and emails exploded,” said coalition president Tim Lambert. “In the last couple of months, our numbers have doubled. We’re dealing with probably between 1,200 and 1,400 calls and emails per month, and prior to that it was 600 to 700.”

Demands to restrict firearms and beef up school security have dominated the debate following the shootings, but flying under the radar is the surge of interest in homeschooling as parents lose faith in the ability of public schools to protect students from harm.

That’s violent physical harm, the risk of which is actually, statistically lower than it was 20 years ago. The greater danger, outside an immediate, isolated incident, is the admitted harm the schools do by graduating students who can’t read or calculate.

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