Articles of InterestOur society, indeed what remains of Western civilization, seems to many people to be falling apart. The economic crisis, the moral crisis, the ecological crisis, and the political crisis combine to create a “perfect storm.” But they all stem from one fundamental error. As a society, we have abandoned a sense of cosmic and moral order for the sake of unlimited growth and progress towards an entirely man-made universe.
A similar process underlies another crisis, the fifth crisis, that of education. It has the same root as the others. Education is in crisis not merely because standards of literacy or mathematics have fallen, but because we have no coherent vision, as a society, of what education is for or what it is meant to achieve. We have assumed that, if it is not merely a cage to keep our young people off the streets, its purpose is to train workers in the great economic machine, the same machine that we hope will produce endless growth. But we cannot know what education is for, since we have no idea any longer what man is for, or what a human being actually is. As Frank Sheed once put it: “This question of purpose is a point overlooked in most educational discussions, yet it is quite primary. Read full article, by Stratford Caldecott, at Crisis Magazine. Franciscan University Professor: New Federal Education Standards Rotten to the “Core”
October 17, 2013, at 2:26 PM | By Kelly Conroy Common Core State Standards: A Race to the Middle?
While the goal of holding our children to high standards of education is a good one, Common Core is bad policy, implemented unfairly, that achieves mediocrity at the expense of states’ sovereignty and local control. If we are to fix our broken education system, we must do it by including, not excluding, those closest to our kids in the process and I sincerely hope that the President and the Senate will join me in this effort. ~U.S. Rep. Scott DeJarlais, TN Ron Paul: We Need a Free Market in Education
Critics of Common Core say it “dumbs down” education by replacing traditional English literature with “informational texts”. So students will read such inspiring materials as studies by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the EPA’s “Recommended Levels of Insulation,” and “Invasive Plant Inventory” by California’s Invasive Plant Council. It is doubtful that reading federal reports will teach students the habits of critical thinking and skepticism of government that the Founders considered essential to maintaining a free republic. ~Ron Paul A Case for Classical Education
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More about the Common Core State Standards...Further Nationalizing Education with "Common Core"
Common Core is another government program to further indoctrinate American school children to conform to the visionary future socialist New World Order. ~Jack McLain |
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“Home schooling is absolutely necessary for the survival of the Catholic Church in America.”
- Fr. John Hardon, S.J.
“Home schooling is absolutely necessary for the survival of the Catholic Church in America.”
- Fr. John Hardon, S.J.